The Rock Stars Who Vanished… And Were Never Found

The Sundays walked offstage in 1997 and never came back. Richey Edwards of the Manic Street Preachers checked into a London hotel in 1995 and vanished , his car found abandoned at the Severn Bridge, his case still officially open thirty years later. Jim Sullivan recorded a psych-folk album called U.F.O., drove into the New Mexico desert in 1975, and was never seen again. Licorice McKechnie played Woodstock with the Incredible String Band and then quietly disappeared from the map. And bands like Derek and the Dominos, Free, and Silver Apples vanished in plain sight — burning out at the exact moment they should have been making history. This is the story of five musicians and bands who disappeared, and the mysteries that have never closed. From cult psych-folk records to one of British rock's most haunting unsolved cases, these are the artists whose music outlived the answers. The moments the music changed forever. Welcome to Battle of Melody.