The Love of Richard Nixon

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"The Love of Richard Nixon"
"The Love of Richard Nixon" cover
Single by Manic Street Preachers
from the album Lifeblood
Released October 18, 2004
Format CD, DVD
Recorded  ?
Genre Rock
Length 3:38
Label Epic
Chart positions
Manic Street Preachers singles chronology
"There By The Grace Of God"
(2003)		 "The Love of Richard Nixon"
(2004)		 "Empty Souls"
(2005)

"The Love of Richard Nixon" (sample (help·info)) was the first single to be released from the Manic Street Preachers' seventh studio album Lifeblood. The song is according to the band: 'a soundtrack to disillusion, hatred, love and never giving up'. More specifically, the song is a sympathetic appraisal of former US president Richard Nixon and mentions some of his positive achievements, inevitably overshadowed by the Watergate Scandal. The timing of the single's release, two weeks before George W. Bush's victory at the 2004 US presidential elections, can also be seen as a statement by the band concerning the reputation of the USA's current leadership.

It hit #2 in the UK charts. The sound is more electronic than most of their previous hits, indicative of a slight switch in sound on Lifeblood.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] CD1

  1. "The Love of Richard Nixon"
  2. "Everyone Knows / Nobody Cares"

[edit] CD2

  1. "The Love of Richard Nixon"
  2. "Everything Will Be"
  3. "Askew Road"
  4. "The Love of Richard Nixon" (video)

[edit] DVD

  1. "The Love of Richard Nixon" (video)
  2. "Quarantine (In My Place Of)" - Short Film
  3. "Voodoo Polaroids"


Manic Street Preachers

Band members: James Dean Bradfield - Nicky Wire - Sean Moore
Former members: Flicker (Miles Woodward) - Richey James Edwards
Discography
Albums: Generation Terrorists - Gold Against the Soul - The Holy Bible - Everything Must Go - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours - Know Your Enemy - Lifeblood - Send Away The Tigers
EPs: New Art Riot - Life Becoming a Landslide - God Save the Manics
Compilations: Forever Delayed - Lipstick Traces
DVDs Leaving The 20th Century - Forever Delayed - Louder than War
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