Manfred Mann (band)
| Manfred Mann | |
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 Left to right: Tom McGuinness, Dave Berry , Klaus Voormann, Mike Hugg, Manfred Mann and Mike d'Abo, 1967 |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | skirt |
| founding | 1962 |
| resolution | 1969 |
| Founding members | |
| Manfred Mann | |
| Mike Hugg | |
| Last occupation | |
Keyboard |
Manfred Mann |
Drums |
Mike Hugg |
| Tom McGuinness (from 1963) | |
| Mike d'Abo (from 1966) | |
bass |
Klaus Voormann (from 1967) |
| former members | |
singing |
Paul Jones (1962-1967) |
bass |
Dave Richmond (1962-1963) |
Guitar, alto saxophone
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Mike Vickers (1962-1966) |
bass |
Jack Bruce (1967) |
Manfred Mann were a British beat band that existed from 1962 to 1969. The band name is identical to that of the founding member and keyboardist Manfred Mann . After the Beatles and the Animals , Manfred Mann was the third English band with the single Do Wah Diddy Diddy to reach 1st place in the US charts . With Pretty Flamingo and Mighty Quinn , written by Bob Dylan , she had two other number one hits in the USA. In Germany, Ha! Ha! Said the Clown and Mighty Quinn topped the charts .
history
Manfred Mann and the drummer Mike Hugg formed the Mann Hugg Blues Brothers in London in 1962 . Paul Jones took over the vocals, Dave Richmond played the bass guitar . Mike Vickers joined as lead guitarist and also played the alto saxophone and flute.
In 1963 the band came under contract with the record label EMI . Her name was changed to Manfred Mann at the behest of producer John Burgess . In July of that year the bluesy instrumental Why Should We Not? , which the group was able to present in the following New Year's Eve show on television, released the first single. The following year, the band played the song 5-4-3-2-1, the opening melody for the weekly music show Ready Steady Go on the British TV channel ITV . The piece reached number 5 on the British music charts .
Dave Richmond left the band shortly thereafter and was replaced by Tom McGuinness . The band's first self-written hit was Hubble Bubble (Toil And Trouble) . In June 1964, the group recorded the song Do Wah Diddy Diddy at Abbey Road Studios , a cover version of the American singing group The Exciters , which had only had moderate success with it. The Manfred Mann version climbed to the top of the charts in the UK and USA . With another cover, Sha La La from the girl group The Shirelles , Manfred Mann reached number three in Great Britain.
The success was accompanied - at least with regard to the published singles - with a departure from the previously more blues and jazz-oriented style of music towards more poppy arrangements. On their albums, however, the band stayed true to their style. In September 1964, after an EP had already been released, she released her first album , The Five Faces of Manfred Mann . In addition to original compositions, it included interpretations of Howlin 'Wolf's Smokestack Lightning , Ann Cole's Got My Mojo Working and Bo Diddley's Bring It To Jerome . The US version differed from the original, it contained the hits Hubble Bubble (Toil And Trouble) , Do Wah Diddy Diddy and Sha La La .
Oh No Not My Baby , a Maxine Brown cover penned by Gerry Goffin and Carole King , reached number 11 in the UK in the spring of 1965. The second album Mann Made came out in October 1965. It contained, among other things, the blues piece Stormy Monday by T-Bone Walker (in the original Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad) ). The EP The One in the Middle from the same year contained a Bob Dylan cover for the first time with With God on Our Side . If You Gotta Go, Go Now , also written by Dylan, climbed to number two in the UK.
In the spring of 1966, Pretty Flamingo topped the UK and US charts. That year, Mike Vickers and Paul Jones, followed by Mike d'Abo as vocalists, left the band. Tom McGuinness took over the lead guitar, the new bass man was Jack Bruce . Bruce, who switched to Cream that same year , can only be heard on Pretty Flamingo and the EP Instrumental Asylum , his successor being Klaus Voormann .
In 1966 the band switched to the Fontana record label , and Shel Talmy became the new producer . EMI released the samplers Mann Made Hits (1966) and Soul of Mann (1967) as well as previously unreleased material. To the outrage of the band, EMI had the unfinished song You Gave Me Somebody to Love completed with studio musicians. It reached number 36 in the UK charts.
The single Just Like a Woman , again a Bob Dylan cover, came in at number ten in the US. There, in the same year, Semi-Detached Suburban reached Mr. James and in 1967 Ha! Ha! Said the clown places two and four respectively. In December 1966 the EP Instrumental Assassination was released , like its predecessors with cover versions of well-known songs.
With Ha! Ha! Said the Clown had Manfred Mann early 1967 their first number one hit in Germany. The covers Sweet Pea (originally by Tommy Roe ) and So Long, Dad ( Randy Newman ) flopped in the charts. It wasn't until 1968 - apart from the low-price sampler What A Mann - there were albums again: the soundtrack Up the Junction for the film of the same name and Mighty Garvey! , the group's last album. Mighty Quinn, penned by Bob Dylan, gave the band a final number one hit in Great Britain in early 1968. In Germany, the song also climbed to the highest chart position.
The last three singles also made it into the top 10 in Great Britain: My Name Is Jack and Fox On The Run in June and December 1968, respectively, Ragamuffin Man the following year.
In 1969 the group disbanded. Mann and Hugg turned their back on popular music and founded the experimental jazz rock formation Manfred Mann Chapter Three in October 1969 . Manfred Mann then founded his band Manfred Mann's Earth Band, which is still active today .
Discography
Singles
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Albums
In the USA the albums had partly different names and contents EPs
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literature
- Greg Russo: Mannerisms - The Five Phases of Manfred Mann . 2nd Edition. Crossfire Publications, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-9791845-2-9 (English).
- Greg Shaw: The British are coming. From the childhood days of English rock music . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1983, ISBN 3-499-17773-0 , pp. 168 ff .