By Greg Cochrane

"We'd done interviews and photo-shoots," says My Chemical Romance's bassist Mikey Way. "The singles were picked, we were booking shows - we were ready to go…"

And then the brakes were applied.

Two and a half years ago the New Jersey rockers returned to the studio to begin work on the follow-up to their hugely successful third album The Black Parade.

However, something was very wrong.

"It was just a pretty damaged band," says lead singer Gerard Way, tucking his freshly-dyed bright red hair under a winter hat.

"It wasn't damage between us - it was just we had toured too long, we'd over-worked, we'd over-shot in a lot of ways. [We were] Over exposed.

"We didn't have a semblance of real life at all. At that point Frank [Lero, guitarist] was only one with a home and he never saw it. None of us had homes.

"None of us could drive a car anymore. None of us could do anything for ourselves. It had just ground down to dust by a billion and one things."( read the rest of the interview )

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