RICHEY EDWARDS
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Manic Street Preachers guitarist and lyricist Richey Edwards was a rock musician who wasn’t scared to do the unusual trick to show how genuine he was. In 1991, in response to a query on the veracity of his gloomy character, he seized the opportunity to cut the words “4 REAL” into his bicep on the spot.
Until he had been absent for so long that they had to assume he was dead, many thought his absence in 1995 was just another promotional gimmick. Although his family insisted that suicide was “never a possibility for him,” the fact that his car was discovered deserted close to a bridge where suicide jumps were common seemed to support that theory.
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