Death of a Polaroid - A Manics Family Album - Tapa dura

The first of two titles by the Manic Street Preachers' bassist and lyricist, Nicky Wire. For more than twenty years and from Blackwood, Wales to Tokyo, Japan, Nicky Wire has kept a personal visual history of the band in their various stages from Generation Terrorists through Holy Bible and right up to last year's remarkable album, Postcards from a Young Man. Edited down from over 1,000 of Wire's personal polaroids and with accompanying text by the man himself, Death of The Polaroid promises to be a rich, visual biography of one of the most loved and iconoclastic British bands of the past two decades.

Nicky is the bass player and lyricist with the Manic Street Preachers. The group have released ten critically acclaimed albums over two decades, during which time they have won - amongst others - four Brits, an Ivor Novello, five Q awards, the Mojo Maverick award and the NME's coveted Godlike Genius Award.