Lifeblood

Lifeblood is the Manic Street Preachers seventh studio album. Recorded in New York and Wales, with the help of Tony Visconti, Tom Elmhirst and Manics regular Greg Haver. Released on November 1st 2004, preceded by singles "The Love of Richard Nixon" and "Empty Souls". The album includes songs about Emily Pankhurst and lost friend and bandmember Richey Edwards (Cardiff Afterlife).

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• "1985"
• "The Love of Richard Nixon"
• "Empty Souls"
• "A Song for Departure"
• "I Live to Fall Asleep"
• "To Repel Ghosts"
• "Emily"
• "Glasnost"
• "Always / Never"
• "Solitude Sometimes Is"
• "Fragments"
• "Cardiff Afterlife"

Manic Street Preachers: Manic Street Preachers, often known colloquially as "The Manics" (not "The Preachers") are a Welsh pop band, one of the biggest in Britain for a period in the late 1990s, known for their early wild exploits; the mysterious disappearance and possible suicide of Richey James Edwards (Richey James, as ...

Tony Visconti: Tony Visconti (born April 24, 1944) is a record producer, and often an instrumentalist or singer, who has had a long and illustrious career working with some of the best known popular music artists from the late 1960s onwards, notably T. Rex, David Bowie, Thin Lizzy, Sparks, Gentle Giant, The Strang...

The Love of Richard Nixon: "The Love of Richard Nixon" is the first single to be released from the Manic Street Preachers' seventh studio album Lifeblood. The song is according to the band: 'a soundtrack to disillusion, hatred, love and never giving up'. It hit #2 in the UK charts. The sound is more electronic than most of th...