Manic Street Preachers’ 30 greatest songs – ranked!

Marking 30 years of their debut album, Generation Terrorists, a look back at the Welsh rockers' best bits: from the song about the Spanish civil war that kept Steps off No 1 to their glorious duets

Manic Street Preachers were always Guns N' Roses fans: on A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun, they collaborated with the band's bassist Duff McKagan. Charmingly perverse as ever, they turned in one of their poppiest latterday melodies, liberally decorated with metal guitar.