Garbage’s Shirley Manson: ‘I Would Never Give Up on America’

Garbage’s Shirley Manson: ‘I Would Never Give Up on America’

With a new album, Let All That We Imagine Be the Light, out this week, the singer talks about how recovering from an injury and the state of the world inspired her lyrics

Garbage: “I can either be completely destroyed by what’s going on, or…

Shirley Manson came home from the last Garbage tour in a wheelchair, declaring herself utterly ​“broken”. The legendary band had to cancel all remaining 2024 shows after an old injury – originally sustained when Shirley fell offstage in 2016 – flared up. She had a second hip replacement and endured months of agonising rehab, plus heavy doses of painkillers, leaving her bedbound and clouding her consciousness to the point where she couldn’t even …