Manics Forgiven For Stipe AIDS Jibe - Q Magazine, January 1999
Title: | Manics Forgiven For Stipe AIDS Jibe |
Publication: | Q Magazine |
Date: | January 1999 |
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Organisers awoke with a cold sweat. Press officers cross themselves and riffled with their rosaries. Almost simultaneously everyone remembered what they'd forgotten until the morning of Friday 13: that Nicky Wire of the Manic Street Preachers, on stage at the Kilburn National in 1991, had said "I hope Michael Stipe goes the same way as Freddie Mercury". Would it all kick off?
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