Manic Street Preachers - The Vanishing Of Richey Manic (Part 1)

This is the infamous documentary about the disapperance of Manic Street Preachers guitarist/lyricist Richey Edwards, who left his car at the Severn Bridge on 1st February 1995 and hasn't been seen since.

The documentary contains lots of talking heads who have nothing in common with the Manics, most strangely Boy George and Shaun Ryder. There's also a rare appearance from Deborah Curtis, wife of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis, who took his own life in 1980.

Visually, the whole thing looks like a Most Haunted episode and seems to portray Richey as a dark, horrific, troubled soul. Sound wise, scary ambience is prominent throughout.

Copyright: Channel 4

Broadcast Date: October 1996

Category:

Music

Tags:

• manic
• street
• preachers
• the
• vanishing
• of
• richey
• james
• edwards

[byan85]

'Too smart for suicide.' What the hell does that mean? Many intelligent people have committed suicide.

[acupoftea123]

Fuck Shaun Ryder & Boy George! What the hell do they know about Richey, or the Manics for that matter?

[AndPlus]

This documentary is in such bad taste it actually made me laugh a bit. It would be in very poor taste to go into such morbid speculations as depicted here in the awful dramatic reconstructions/impressions and to have such atrociously "spooky" music in a documentary about Edwards' disappearance now in 2012, let alone when this was made, which was very close to the actual time of the event.

[digitalHEX666]

I think the key to his disappearance lies in the way he spelt his name RICHey not Ritchie

[ExtremaDreapta]

Boy George is not that stupid, his music is.

He says some deep shit around 2:40.

[WatchRyder]

4:16

Prozac.

Spree killers, suicides etc often have that drug in common.

Avoid it, if you value your mind.

[IETCHX69]

So he was a spoiled over-indulged kid. Fuckin' WAH!

[gnrboy]

Boy George does make some good points, Lord knows if anyone knows about going off your rocker it's him. But Shaun Ryder... fuck him.

[iamjoshandyouaredaft]

@sophialovesnow1987 She is/was a girl from London who Richey met backstage at a Manics gig and it's said that she's the only girl who he ever slept with, but they were never actually a couple and most of the time they'd just talk.

[StarInvasion]

I fucking hate Shaun Ryder. I hate his music, NOTHING he said had anything to do with richey. Boy George is a twat but at least he made a few good points, What a prick!

[mrcodhead67]

This is PANTS!!

[joshyboi1991]

clearly no idea about the manics... 1:03 calls him a talented musician...talented lyricist yes..but musician?! hahaha, he was never plugged in. much love Rich <3