Manic Street Preachers interview, Munich 1993

[SeriouslyRandom20]

Richey at the end He is so cute

[flavialimao]

1:07 Oooooh, Richey! He is/was so perfect in everything he does/did.

[thewinterflowers]

The one person who didn´t like this must be Wire himself ;)

[claudia22calvin]

making a personal statement about gay people doesnt make him gay... by the other hand, because of his background (the small birth town) and trouble existence I cant help thinkin' what if??? him n nicky were really close, true, but girls sometimes they're very close too, does that make them lesbians??? I dont know, the more I see interviews with him the more confused I am...what if he realised was gay, but couldnt come to terms with that .....

[bruce6labruce]

richey edwards was gay and he wanst dating anyone ever.

he loved nicky wire.

[Libertinedreamful]

@bruce6labruce he didnt really love him that was all for publicity! he was having sex with groupies every night.

[DancingMad17]

@bruce6labruce uh where did u get that ridicules information from? richey isnt gay 

[depechemode1992]

the translation is quite wrong

it implies that richey is gay which he obviously was not

[thebobbseytwins]

@depechemode1992

How do you know?

[depechemode1992]

@thebobbseytwins i'm german myself

[thebobbseytwins]

@depechemode1992

No, I'm asking how you know that Richey was "obviously" not gay.

[depechemode1992]

@thebobbseytwins as far as i know he was dating a girl just until two days before his disappearance

[thebobbseytwins]

@depechemode1992

He said he kissed her maybe once or twice, but he never said they were dating or anything more than friends (although, he wanted it to be more). Also, Elton John was married once.

[depechemode1992]

@thebobbseytwins are you sure he said that? it was two days before the ultimate disappearance, the final interview was conducted a month before

[thebobbseytwins]

@depechemode1992

From where did you hear that he was dating her up until 2 days before he disappeared?

[depechemode1992]

@thebobbseytwins i don't remember, sorry

[thebobbseytwins]

As of January 23 1995, this is what he had to say on the matter: "I've never had any long relationship. The longest, when I was young, was about four days. Since the band started, I've only really been involved with one girl. I can speak to her more naturally than to anyone else. It means something. But I've never told her I love her. I've known her for years, but I've only kissed her once... once, twice. That's all. How can I explain? When I love somebody, I feel sort of trapped."

[thebobbseytwins]

@PrincessVali

It was translated from a Japanese magazine by select.

[axelle3577]

Hi there ! As my German is very poor, could you maybe make a translation ? I'd really like to know what's being said :D

[depechemode1992]

@axelle3577 Richey says: "There are so many gay people in rock bands, so much musicians who do not want to admit that they're gay. I find it pretty stupid if someone is not proud of what he is. They wear leather jackets and behave in a macho way but they never tell what they really are. This makes me sick. We for ourselves admit it"

[axelle3577]

depechemode1992, I thank you very much ! Maybe all this fuss had to do with one of the band' slogans "All Rock'n'Roll is homosexual". Which is a general statement not necessarily expressing the MSP's own sexual orientation :-)

[20andnotfun]

How come the other members go really quiet when richey goes on a rant?

[lunargirlxx]

what exactly is rich saying? i understand bits but german translator makes it unable to hear most of it - about gay people in rock music and that's where it kind of gets really hard to understand

[Noirtora]

He says that there are many homosexuals in rock bands but they act tough and like machos.

"They never talk about who they are and who they feel, it makes me sick but we confess everything."

Something along thos lines....

[lunargirlxx]

thank you so much!!!! i was trying like a fool to understand but it really is impossible to hear richey...Thank you!!!

[thebobbseytwins]

Oh, the fond memories I have of that vile yellow shirt, if you can even call it that.

[04gtaylor]

Nicky is so gorgeous!