Manic Street Preachers - Kevin Carter

[philquinton]

Kaffir lover lol 

[grimbar1312]

riff on this tune is sick

[blindingsun]

the only manic's song i can stomach.



[GER08ify]

In 2010, Kevin Carter was played by Taylor Kitsch in the film The Bang-Bang-Club.

[GER08ify]

Portions of Carter's suicide note read:

"I am depressed ... without phone ... money for rent ... money for child support ... money for debts ... money!!! ... I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners ... I have gone to join Ken [recently deceased colleague Ken Oosterbroek] if I am that lucky."

[GER08ify]

On 27 July 1994 Carter drove to the Braamfontein Spruit river, near the Field and Study Centre, an area where he used to play as a child, and took his own life by taping one end of a hose to his pickup truck’s exhaust pipe and running the other end to the passenger-side window. He died of carbon monoxide poisoning, aged 33.

[cockshield]

@GER08ify The best way to commit suicide!

[GER08ify]

Kevin Carter (13 September 1960 in Johannesburg – 27 July 1994) was an award-winning South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club.

[cockshield]

If there was a Bond movie called "Kevin Carter" this would make THE perfect theme. Sadly, alas there isn't.

[hulio932]

this was released in everything must go album 1996

[eraserhead321]

it's copyrighted to 2002 because the video is of a higher definition than the older 90s one... also the mix and quality of the song might be different than the original Everything Must Go one if it's from the Forever Delayed album... now stop being so anal and get on with your lives :)

[spanelli1984]

nah this is the original vid from the 90s...god knows why it says 2002....

[sips321]

@trollfinger Forever Delayed album was released then, Kevin Carter was in it, and perhaps the Manics made this music video not until then.

[HonkyCat90]

@sips321 If my memory serves me right, I remember seeing this back in the 90s.

[GreenBitterfly]

@sips321 No, the video is from the '90s, I remember from then.

[trollfinger]

Why does it say 2002 ?

[TheJimbobs123]

@trollfinger It will be something to do with the Sony copyright. But, as i'm sure you know, the song was released '96.

[trollfinger]

@TheJimbobs123

Of course but it's just odd. It makes it look like it was out in 2002. People may get confused.

[AnotherOrangeJulius]

Great song, acceptable video.

[SeriouslyRandom20]

was the last song James played to Richey before he went missing

[frank4034]

Amazing man, amazing song!!!

[TheSweetMandJ]

Are we talking about this album? The one Kevin Carter is on? In which case, yes it has you plonker =P 15 years ago

[RoofLight00]

I didn't want to see bloody James Blake! however ignoring that, genius once again from MSP.

[firstborn1988gorsaga]

The best song on the album I think. 

[dowling1981]

@firstborn1988gorsaga The album hasn't been released yet, ken?

[sheer2waist]

songs with real meanings and songs about true events/people are soooo much better than the inane stuff thats in the charts these days!

[pinkfloid79]

Strong, Classy, Visionary video...brings emotions and the story to the fore. The images of the photographer "shooting" each of the band members in turn was extremely well done. Along with A Design For Life my favourite videos from the Manics.