Dr. David Evans

In August 1994, Manic Street Preachers released The Holy Bible, a dark, fiercely intelligent album that explored such themes as mental illness, murder, and war. Richey Edwards, the band’s lyricist and motive force, vanished five months later; he was never found. In his absence, The Holy Bible entered the rock canon alongside Joy Division’s Closer and Nirvana’s In Utero, the...