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Marianne Eloise

“I was staring at the LA cityscape wondering what the hell I was doing with my life. I was examining every awful thing about myself”: How My Chemical Romance took alienation, anxiety and hair bleach and turned it into the emo Bohemian Rhapsody

My Chemical Romance posing for a photograph in 2005.

My Chemical Romance’s second album, 2004’s Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, would have been difficult for anyone to follow, and for two years, fans waited anxiously to find out what the band would do next. They would be surprised.

On September 2, 2006, the band dropped a brand new song, Welcome To The Black Parade on Myspace, an epic introduction to a new narrative landscape. Ten days later, it was released as a single, reaching No.9 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts and later becoming the band’s first No.1 in the UK.

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