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I Killed the Zeitgeist

2006 studio album by Nicky Wire

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 28, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

I Killed the Zeitgeist is the debut solo studio album by Manic Street Preachers bass guitarist and lyricist Nicky Wire. It was released on 25 September 2006 by record label Red Ink.

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“I Killed the Zeitgeist” enters the record as 2006 studio album by Nicky Wire. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Killed, Zeitgeist and studio can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Killed, Zeitgeist and studio.
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“I Killed the Zeitgeist” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Killed, Zeitgeist and studio provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 28, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “I Killed the Zeitgeist” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.