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Listen to Manic Street Preachers' Nicky Wire and Sean Moore talking about their single Motown Junk - one of the 10 songs that mean most to the band.
Motown Junk was released on Heavenly Recordings in 1991 - and was the first professional recording that Manic Street Preachers had made.
The Manics' top 10
It got to a heady number 94 in the UK singles chart but showed an iconoclastic, brash confidence that came to characterise the band's early career. "I laughed when Lennon got shot," sang James Dean Bradfield, over a stonking chorus and samples of both Public Enemy and The Skids.
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See also
- Manic Street Preachers biography
- Interview: Manics' own top 10 singles
- Review: Postcards From A Young Man
- Manic Street Preachers photo gallery
- Nicky Wire interview (2007)
- Fans' questions for Nicky
- Interview (2005)
- Profile of James Dean Bradfield
- Profile of Nicky Wire
- Profile of Sean Moore
- Profile of Richey Edwards
- Manic Street Preachers video clips
- Review: The Holy Bible
- James Dean Bradfield solo biography
- Nicky Wire solo biography
- Rock music in Wales
- Manics on Welsh love songs
