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Tom Robinson wants your suggestions to create a Manic Street Preachers-inspired playlist.

Tom Robinson wants your suggestions to create the ultimate Manic Street Preachers-inspired playlist.

Happy anniversary to the Manic Street Preachers, and their 1996 album 'Everything Must Go'! What better way to show our gratitude and appreciation of the album and to the biggest rock band from Wales, than by creating a playlist around the band. This Sunday's Now Playing will be aManic Street Preachers fest.

The band have been celebrating the 20th anniversary themselves, touring the the album in full across Europe with a series of live dates. Their recent dates at the Royal Albert Hall on May 16 and 17 were sold out and received rave reviews. The shows take two parts; the first half is 'Everything Must Go' from start to finish, the second part is a greatest hits marathon. This band know how to put on a show, especially with reports that Nicky Wire has more costume changes than Madonna at a three-day rave festival with inconsistent weather.

Released on May 20th 1996 'Everything Must Go' was the first record released by the band following the sad disappearance of lyricist and rhythm guitarist Richey Edwards. The album represented a shift in the group's sound due to Edwards' departure, introducing the band to the mainstream public; all the singles were radio friendly and the album was a critical success going on to eventually sell over two million copies.

They have released 12 albums in total and have sold over 10 million records, not bad for a band who, when they started in 1986 in Blackwood, South Wales with the dream of becoming the biggest band in the world...they are 'living the dream', you could say.

There's some history for you, but where do we go with a Manics playlist...

Anything from their 12 studio albums, beginning in 1992 with 'Generation Tourists' to their latest 'Futurology' released in 2014.

Influences - they cited 80's music as a big influence on their latest album 'Futurology' specifically;Echo & The Bunnymen, Simple Minds, David Bowie and Visage...what about The Clash, Jeff Beck, Badfinger for their older stuff...?

Who have they influenced? Catfish and the Bottlemen, Feeder, Gruff Rhys...Ok these are all Welsh band's/people however the Manics paved the way for these guys...

Collabs & covers - they have written for The Lightning Seeds, 808 State, Massive Attack and covered songs by Guns N' Roses, Happy Mondays and Faces...

Solo stuff - anything from Bradfield's 'The Great Western' or Nicky Wire's 'I Killed The Zeitgeist'?

You get the idea.

You pick the music, so get your Manic Street Preachers inspired suggestions to Tom via the hashtag #Manics6Music to help create a playlist. Comment on the Now Playing Facebook page, here on the blog, email nowplaying@bbc.co.uk or drag tracks onto our Spotify playlist.

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