Peeled Apples Peeled Apples "Peeled Apples" is a song by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. It is the opening track of the band's ninth studio album, "Journal for Plague Lovers". Produced by Steve Albini, the song, along with the other tracks of the album, features posthumous lyrics by Richey Edwards, who disappeared on 1 February 1995, and was declared legally dead in 2008. The song debuted on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 program on 25 March 2009. The lyrics of the song is taken from the notebooks and the artwork which Richey Edwards left to the band members just before
Know Your Enemy (Manic Street Preachers album) "a disco parody," respectively. The tracks "My Guernica", "His Last Painting" and "The Convalescent" were also described as "dark, marching and charging post-punk anthems." It is the longest album released by the Manic Street Preachers, as it is slightly longer than their debut "Generation Terrorists". On 2014, Sean Moore stated in an interview to a Spanish reporter that the songs included in Know Your Enemy were originally meant for two different albums with different sound and concept. Songs ended up all together in one album as the record label was not kind to put out two albums at the same