666 - Manic Street Preachers The Everlasting 1998

Manic Street Preachers are a Welsh rock band often associated with the Britpop scene, who gained mainstream popularity in the UK in the late 1990s. Politically, the Manics appear as a socialist group — a stance inflected by their working class upbringing in Blackwood, Caerphilly, South Wales (they grew up during the miners' strike of the 1980s) as evidenced by their often highly politicised lyrics and actions (they once dedicated an award to Arthur Scargill, leader of the National Union of Mineworkers and later the Socialist Labour Party). The band also played a highly publicised gig in Cuba as guests of President Fidel Castro. "The Everlasting" was released on November 30, 1998 and is the second single to be released from the "This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours".