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Glam Rock: Manic Street Preachers

Simon Witter, Sky, 1993

The Manic Street Preachers were wearing Boots No.17 eyeliner and women's fun-fur coats way before Brett Anderson could even spell androgyny. "Our idea of glamour is far removed from most people's," Richey James helpfully tells Simon Witter.

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