I lived in England right after that happened. They found Richey Edwards' car at a service station near a bridge over the Bristol Channel. He and his band were Welsh. The band went on to have it's greatest success immediately after that. He kept "being sighted" in Goa, India by those who thought he was still alive.
You want to check out the early Manics stuff. 'Holy Bible' is one of the nastiest, teenage-tantrum rock albums of all time. They were actually very good for a short period of time.
Mind you, songs like ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforjustonedayitsworldwouldfallapart, probably won't go down so well on Free Republic!