Angel Station

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Angel Station
Studio album by Manfred Mann's Earth Band

Publication
(s)

March 9, 1979 (UK & Europe)
April 30, 1979 (USA)

admission

August 1978 - January 1979

Label (s) Bronze Records

Format (s)

LP

Genre (s)

Rock , pop rock

Title (number)

9

running time

38:44

occupation

production

Anthony Moore

Studio (s)

The Workhouse, London
Noel's House, Clonakilty , County Cork

chronology
Watch (1978) Angel Station Chance (1980)
Single releases
February 2, 1979 (UK)
May 28, 1979 (USA)
1979 (Germany) 		You Angel You
February 2, 1979 (Germany)
June 8, 1979 (UK) 		Don't kill it Carol

Angel Station is the ninth studio album by the Manfred Mann's Earth Band. It was released in 1979.

The album

Manfred Mann had disbanded the band at the end of 1978, but had already started recording this album. Several changes were made to the line-up for the start-up. Ex- Wings drummer Geoff Britton replaced founding drummer Chris Slade and Steve Waller replaced guitarist Dave Flett . Britton left the band soon after due to illness and was replaced by John Lingwood . With this line-up, the album is the first album without any other founding members, with the exception of Manfred Mann himself.

On the back of the album cover Manfred Mann informs the fans that the album will be Chris Thompson's last with the band as he will start his own band Night . Thompson, on the other hand, was available for recordings and live performances with the Earth Band well into the 2000s and appears on all other Earth Band albums, with the exception of the 1987 album Masque , as well as on the 2006 album , which appeared in 2004 under the name Manfred Mann '06 regardless of the title and on the 2014 Manfred Mann album Lone Arranger .

The artistic design of the cover alludes to the work of MC Escher . On the cover there is also an upside down female angel with a bare chest. In the US, however, the angel's hair was partially retouched to hide the bare breasts.

Kanye West used a sample from You Are, I Am in 2010 for his So Appalled from the album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy . Manfred Mann used So Appalled as the basis for the song One Hand in the Air on Lone Arranger . Mann mentions in the booklet for the album that it was part of the agreement on the use of You Are, I Am by West that Mann himself was also allowed to use the resulting title from West.

reception

In Volume 1 of its Rock book series , the magazine eclipsed describes the album as a “very own mixture of cosmic sounds, ludicrous improvisations [...] and down-to-earth rock” ( Walter Sehrer, Matthias Bergert, Marcus Wicker, Wolfram Porr : Rock - the complete work of the greatest Rock acts in check: all albums, all songs (part 1)) and awards the second highest category mandatory purchase for the work . In the overall view of all Manfred Mann's Earth Band albums, the album lands in 4th place.

Joe Viglione writes on allmusic about the "beautiful keyboards", a "first-class [...] Anthony Moore production work," and a rock band with "good taste". The album is "well-made music by an industry veteran" and it receives three stars out of five.

Chart placements
Charts Top ranking Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK) Germany (GfK) 4th (57 weeks) 57
Austria (Ö3) Austria (Ö3) 6th (28 weeks) 28
United Kingdom (OCC) United Kingdom (OCC) 30th (8 weeks) 8th
United States (Billboard) United States (Billboard) 144 (13 weeks) 13

The album received a gold record award in Germany in 1980 .

Track list

page 1

  1. Don't kill it, Carol ( Mike Heron ) - 6:18
  2. You Angel You ( Bob Dylan ) - 4:02
  3. Hollywood Town ( Harriet Schock ) - 5:09
  4. Belle of the Earth (Manfred Mann) - 2:45
  5. Platform End (Chris Thompson, Geoff Britton, Jimme O'Neill , Manfred Mann, Pat King, Steve Waller) - 1:35

Page 2

  2. Angels at my Gate ( Hirth Martinez , Jimme O'Neill, Manfred Mann) - 4:50
  3. You Are - I Am (Manfred Mann) - 5:10
  4. Waiting for the Rain ( Billy Falcon ) - 6:15
  5. Resurrection (Manfred Mann) - 2:45

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Greg Russo: Mannerisms - The five phases of Manfred Mann . 2nd Edition. Crossfire Publications, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-9791845-2-9 , pp. 201 .
  2. ^ Greg Russo: Mannerisms - The five phases of Manfred Mann . 2nd Edition. Crossfire Publications, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-9791845-2-9 , pp. 151 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Greg Russo: Mannerisms - The five phases of Manfred Mann . 2nd Edition. Crossfire Publications, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-9791845-2-9 , pp. 197 .
  4. ↑ Manfred Mann's Earth Band - You Angel You at Discogs
  5. ↑ Budapest (Live) at Discogs
  6. ↑ Mann Alive at Discogs
  7. ↑ Opportunity at Discogs
  8. ↑ Somewhere in Africa at Discogs
  9. ↑ Criminal Tango at Discogs
  10. ↑ Soft Vengeance at Discogs
  11. ↑ Masque at Discogs
  12. ↑ 2006 at Discogs
  13. ↑ a b Lone Arranger at Discogs
  14. ↑ Angel Station, UK edition on Discogs
  15. ^ Advertisement in Billboard magazine for the album "Angel Station". In: Billboard. Accessed February 16, 2020 .
  16. ↑ My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy at Discogs
  17. ↑ Walter Sehrer, Matthias Bergert, Marcus Wicker, Wolfram Porr: Manfred Mann's Earth Band . In: eclipsed-Redaktion (ed.): Rock –The complete works of the greatest rock acts in check: all albums, all songs . Part 1. Sysyphus Verlag GmbH, Aschaffenburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86852-646-2 , p. 148-159 .
  18. ↑ Joe Viglione's album review at Allmusic (English)
  19. ↑ Angel Station. officialcharts.de, accessed on February 16, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Angel Station. austriancharts.at, accessed on February 16, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Angel Station. officialcharts.com, accessed February 16, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Chart History Manfred Mann. billboard.com, accessed February 18, 2020 .
  23. ^ Golden record 'Angel Station' in D. BVMI, accessed on February 21, 2020 (access parameters: interpreter = "Manfred Mann's Earth Band").

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