Manic Street Preachers "you can draw some pretty obvious conclusions from the lyrics." Wire, who admitted finding the task of editing this song "pretty choking", eventually composed the music and sang lead vocals after Bradfield found himself unsuited to the task. Bradfield commented that "Journal for Plague Lovers" was an attempt to finally secure the legacy of their former member Richey Edwards and the result was that, during the recording process, it was as close to feeling his presence since his disappearance: "There was a sense of responsibility to do his words justice. That was part of the whole thing of letting enough
Liverpool Revisited (...) it is genuinely touching." On the day of release the band shared a lyric video on YouTube. Manic Street Preachers Liverpool Revisited "Liverpool Revisited" is a song by the Manic Street Preachers, it was the fourth single taken from their album "Resistance Is Futile". Written by Nicky Wire, it was released on 6 April 2018. The song is an attempt to eulogise the Merseyside city and give a salute to the defiance and perseverance of those who lost their loved ones in the Hillsborough disaster. According to Bradfield, Wire wrote all components of the song: "It's about the 'Justice