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THE MISSIONARIES — NME legend Steven Wells meets splenetic Welsh rhetoricians the Manic Street Preachers in December 1990. Plus Melody Maker's Simon Reynolds attempts to make sense of the "generation terrorists" six months later and The Independent's Andy Gill declares the self-harming Richey Edwards officially dead in 2008…
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WITH OR WITHOUT HIM — Hot Press veteran Peter Murphy checks into Bono's Million Dollar Hotel in 2000, natters with Willie Nelson in Dublin in 2002 and lands the first comeback interview with My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields in 2004.
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