Manic Street Preachers: Disappeared star Richey Edwards in unseen photos

In a foreword at the beginning of the book, bandmate Nicky Wire said: “We thought these photos were lost but they are found.

“I’m so grateful to Valerie for those intense twenty months when she saw all the energy and ragged glory of Manic Street Preachers and more importantly, captured our little bit of history seen here in these vivid, beautiful photographs.

“During this time she documented every element of our rise from a terraced house in Wales to our first top ten hit,” he added.

“These photographs are revelatory and so evocative – I can smell the hairspray, I can taste the alcohol.”

Valerie looks back on the time she spent with the Manic Street Preachers with fondness.

“Every time we got together and did pictures, I just had a really brilliant, fun time,” she said.

Valerie went on to have long career photographing the likes of Amy Winehouse and Sienna Miller.

But she credits her time with the Manics as shaping her signature style.

“Seeing them live in all these little sweaty, tiny, baking hot clubs – the energy was just bouncing off the walls. It was amazing. Remembering all that and looking at these almost baby pictures was quite moving.”