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Manics remember missing bandmate
The 10th anniversary of the disappearance of Manic Street Preachers member Richey Edwards is being marked in private by his bandmates.
Edwards has not been seen since his car was discovered near the River Severn in Wales in 1995, when he was 27.
"We'll talk to each other and remember something funny or sad," bassist Nicky Wire told music magazine NME.
He added that the anniversary was "a personal thing between us and his mum, dad and sister".
The band has continued to pay Edwards' royalties into an account in his name since his disappearance from a London hotel on 1 February 1995.
The Manic Street Preachers had three hit albums before Edwards vanished - Generation Terrorists, Gold Against the Soul and The Holy Bible.
By that time Edwards had developed a cult following through energetic live performances and outspoken interviews.
He had public battles with alcoholism, anorexia, depression and self-mutilation, and the band addressed such previously taboo subjects in their lyrics.
Edwards has never been found, yet his family has refused to have him declared dead.
The band continued after he vanished, going on to greater success with UK hits such as A Design For Life, If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next and The Masses Against the Classes.
Last month Manic Street Preachers played alongside stars such as Charlotte Church and Goldie Lookin' Chain in the giant tsunami benefit concert at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium.
he couldnt play his instrument for shit, but damned if he didnt write some absolutely great lyrics.
