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"Kevin Carter" is a song by Manic Street Preachers, released as the third single from their album Everything Must Go in 1996. The song peaked at number nine on the UK Singles Chart.
The subject of the lyric was the 1994 Pulitzer Prize-winning professional photographer Kevin Carter who was awarded for his image The Vulture and the Little Girl, taken in what is now South Sudan. Carter was troubled by the balance of his professional responsibilities with moral considerations, leading to his suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning at the age of 33.
Lead singer and guitarist James Dean Bradfield tuned his Fender Jazzmaster to open G tuning, which is commonly used in the playing of slide and bottleneck guitars. The jagged, descending chords of the verses lead into a lush extended middle section, including a trumpet solo played by Sean Moore, which further points to experimental songwriting while also linking back to the spiky music on the band's previous album, The Holy Bible. James Dean Bradfield has said of the song, "It's quite a scratchy sound, but it's kind of complicated in its own humble way."
Along with "Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier", it was one of two new tracks that he played on an acoustic guitar to the songs' lyricist, Richey Edwards, shortly before he disappeared.
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