This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours: 20 Year Collectors' Edition (Deluxe)

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Jennie Lee who was married to Bevan from 1934 up to his death in 1960 also attributed the saying to Bevan. See the 1980 citation below. Admittedly, the ascriptions from Foot and Lee appeared after the death of Bevan which reduced their probative value. It has now been twenty years since This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours was released. In that time it sold over five-million copies, spent 74 weeks in the UK charts, and won best band, best album, best live act, best single and best video at the NME Awards, and best British album and best British group at the BRIT Awards. As Sarah Zupko, writing in Pitchfork in 1998 put it, the Manics were “Now beloved throughout the U.K. as the 'nation's band,' - Oasis having lost the plot and forsaken that role with Be Here Now - they are very much of the musical establishment.” Eringa said that even in the week of release he was nervous: "You get midweek chart positions and sales figures all week, and it was my first chance of a possible Number One, which is such an exciting thing. Every day it was just getting worse and worse; I was becoming more and more psychotic. If it had been released the same week as a Nirvana record or an Oasis record, you'd just have to put your hands up and say 'c'est la vie' – but the horror of losing out to Steps would have been unbelievable!". [11] James Dean Bradfield has cited John Frusciante as the main influence for the intro riff of "My Little Empire". [12] Release [ edit ]

Manic Street Preachers: This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved 18 November 2013. There is also, obviously, the album’s title to consider. “This is my truth, tell me yours” are the words of Aneurin Bevan, the Welshman who effectively created the NHS and was a socialist thorn in the side of the establishment for his lifetime. Appropriating quotes is nothing new for the Manics – great phrases litter their releases, setlists, merchandise and lyrics – but never before or since have they named an entire album in this way. The working title was simply Manic Street Preachers, but again the band reconsidered. The album would have sold just as well without its unwieldy title, but they included it nonetheless. Norwegian album certifications – Manic Street Preachers – This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours" (in Norwegian). IFPI Norway . Retrieved 16 July 2014. Interestingly though, listening to the demos, some of them probably shouldn’t have ended up that way. ‘ I’m Not Working‘, for one, a bit of a snoozefest on the finished article, is a work of eerie, unsettling genius in its bare bones demo form, while on the other hand, the embryonic version of ‘ The Everlasting‘ sounds like one of many of my own unsuccessful bands at the rehearsal studio until someone came up with the masterstroke of making Sean Moore’s drums bear little consequence to the song. They didn’t need to be as upfront as usual, here, and the focus on all other aspects of its composition lifted it to ‘classic single’ status.

Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours". Mercury Prize . Retrieved 6 January 2013. Melody Maker also listed " If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" as the sixth best single of the year. [41] In a cover story on Manic Street Preachers for Select Magazine in November of 1998, John Harris, on the scene at a taping of Top Of The Pops in which the band were set to perform, wrote:

The album was a critical success; on end-of-the-year critics lists it achieved the following accolades: THIS IS MY TRUTH TELL ME YOURS 20 YEAR COLLECTOR'S EDITIONS". Manic Street Preachers. 22 October 2018 . Retrieved 24 September 2019.

The melody of the socialist anthem, " The Internationale" can be heard at the start and end of the video, played on a musical box. This was a popular song on the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War. Longplay-Chartverfolgung at Musicline" (in German). Musicline.de. Phononet GmbH. Retrieved 18 November 2013. Listinn Topp 40 (24.9–1.10. 1998)". Dagblaðið Vísir (in Icelandic). 25 September 1998. p.10 . Retrieved 4 October 2019.