Who says libraries aren't rock n roll!!

Manic Street Preachers single 'A Design for Life' opens with the line  'Libraries gave us power' based on the inscription 'Knowledge is power'outside a Welsh library where one of their girlfriends worked.  

Years later life imitates art as they officially open Cardiffs new state of the art library. 

Here Manic Street Preachers's, Nick Wire bemoans lack of funding for Public Libraries in the UK .