career in radiography, before going on to work for The Guardian. Williamson went on to work for music publisher BMG and Domino Records. Influence McCarthy were a major early influence on Manic Street Preachers who covered three of their songs: "We Are All Bourgeois Now" appeared as a hidden track on their Know Your Enemy album; "Charles Windsor" appeared as a b-side on their Life Becoming a Landslide EP; and "Red Sleeping Beauty" appeared on their single "Autumnsong". Nicky Wire has commented on the band and specifically the album I Am a Wallet: "McCarthy - the great lost band of the '80s they redesigned my idea of politics and pop, it could be intelligent, it could be beautiful. They were frail, tragic, romantic idealists. The songs soothed your body but exercised your brain. They were my education, my information and they are partly to blame for the realisation of the Manic Street Preachers. I still fall in love with this album every six months, it makes me feel guilty because it's so good". Discography Chart placings shown are from the UK Indie Chart. Studio albums I Am a Wallet (September Records; November 1987) (#7) The Enraged Will Inherit the Earth (Midnight Music; March 1989) (#5) Banking, Violence and the Inner Life Today (Midnight Music; April 1990) Singles/EPs "In Purgatory" [b/w "The Comrade Era","Something Wrong Somewhere"] (Wall of Salmon; 1985) "Red Sleeping Beauty" [b/w "From the Damned","God the Father","For the Fat Lady"] (Pink Label; October 1986) "Frans Hals" [b/w "The Fall","Kill Kill Kill Kill","The Fall (remix)","Frans Hals (version)"] (Pink Label; March 1987) (#4) "The Well of Loneliness" [b/w "Unfortunately","Bad Dreams","Someone Worse Off","Antiamericancretin"] (September Records; September 1987) (#10) "This Nelson Rockefeller" [b/w "The Fall" (new version),"The Funeral" (new version),"The Enemy Is At Home" [new version of "For the Fat Lady"],"The Way of the World" (new version)] (September Records; February 1988) (#9) "Should the Bible Be Banned" [b/w "St. Francis Amongst The Mortals","We Are All Bourgeois Now"] (September Records; April 1988) (#9) "Keep an Open Mind or Else" [b/w "The New Left Review #1","Two Criminal Points of View"] (Midnight Music; February 1989) (#10) McCarthy at War EP ["Boy Meets Girl So What" (version),"All Your Questions Answered","New Left Review #2","The Lion Will Lie Down with the Lamb"] (Midnight Music; May 1989) (#16) "Get a Knife Between Your Teeth" [b/w "Nobody Could Care Less About Your Private Lives","With One Eye on Getting Their Pay","Can the