Watch (1978)

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Watch
Studio album by Manfred Mann's Earth Band

Publication
(s)

February 20, 1978 (US)
February 24, 1978 (UK & Europe)

admission

April to December 1977

Label (s) Bronze EMI (UK & Europe)
Warner Bros. Records (USA)

Format (s)

LP

Genre (s)

Rock , progressive rock

Title (number)

7th

running time

39:26

occupation

production

Manfred Mann and Earth Band

Studio (s)

The Workhouse, London

chronology
The Roaring Silence
(1976) 		Watch Angel Station
(1979)
Single releases
Nov 18, 1977 (UK & Europe)
April 24, 1978 (USA) 		California
March 3, 1978 (UK & Europe only) Mighty Quinn
April 28, 1978 (UK & Europe)
July 17, 1978 (USA) 		Davy's on the Road Again

Watch is the eighth music album released by the British rock band Manfred Mann's Earth Band . It was recorded at The Workhouse studio in London and was released in 1978.

The album

Watch contains a mixture of cover versions and their own tracks, which is typical for the Earth Band . The cover versions of this album are u. a. to songs by John Simon and Robbie Robertson , Bob Dylan and the American guitarist Lane Tietgen . The album was preceded by the release of the single California in November 1977, a track by Sue Vickers, the wife of Mike Vickers, the former guitarist of the 1960s Manfred Mann pop group. The songs Mighty Quinn and Davy's on the Road Again , which were also released as singles, are live recordings, but they got a few overdubs in the studio . The released single versions also differ considerably from the album versions. Mighty Quinn was a single hit for the Manfred Mann pop group 10 years earlier in 1968 , which reached number one in the UK and German charts. From a commercial point of view, the album is the band's best-selling album, even if at the time of its release it was not very well placed in the charts of the important US (83rd) and UK (33rd) markets. In Germany, however, it was extremely successful at number 3 and remained in the charts for a total of 69 weeks. It was also received very positively in Scandinavia and was the record company's best-selling album of all time in Norway with more than 60,000 units (as of late 1978). The entire B-side of the album is still an integral part of the Earth Band's live concerts. In 2013, Watch the DVD was released , on which the entire album can be found in the form of promo videos from the time of the original release and also includes bonus songs from some other albums, live performances and interviews.

reception

The eclipsed magazine certifies the album in its book Rock - The Complete Works of the Greatest Rock Acts in Check: all albums, all songs (part 1) to be "unbeatable" and to consist "practically only of classics". Consequently, it awards the work the highest category "Kaufrausch" and it lands in first place in the overall view of all albums.

Track list

page 1

  1. Circles (Alan Mark) - 4:50
  2. Drowning on Dry Land / Fish Soup (Chris Slade / Dave Flett, Manfred Mann) - 6:01
  3. Chicago Institute (Peter Thomas, Manfred Mann, Dave Flett) - 5:47
  4. California (Sue Vickers) - 5:32

Page 2

  2. Davy's on the Road Again (John Simon, Robbie Robertson) - 5:55
  3. Martha's Madman (Lane Tietgen) - 4:52
  4. Mighty Quinn (Bob Dylan) - 6:29

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 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. 145 .
  3. ↑ 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. 197 .
  4. ↑ a b c Greg Russo: Mannerisms - The five phases of Manfred Mann . 2nd Edition. Crossfire Publications, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-9791845-2-9 , pp. 146 .
  5. ↑ UK Official Charts - Manfred Mann (Singles). The Official UK Charts Company, accessed April 18, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Manfred Mann Mighty Quinn Single. GfK Entertainment, accessed April 18, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Robert M. Corich: booklet for "The Re-Masters" CD re-release of "Watch" . Ed .: Cohesion. 1998, p. 4 .
  8. ↑ Manfred Mann's Earth Band Watch Album. GfK Entertainment, accessed April 18, 2019 .
  9. ^ Peter Jones: Nordic industry back in stride . In: Billboard . tape 91 , no. 28 . Nielsen Business Media, Inc., July 14, 1979, ISSN  0006-2510 .
  10. ↑ Manfred Mann's Earth Band Setlist. In: setlist.fm. Retrieved April 18, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Watch the DVD at Discogs
  12. ↑ Walter Sehrer, Matthias Bergert, Marcus Wicker, Wolfram Porr: Manfred Mann's Earth Band . In: eclipsed-Redaktion (Hrsg.): 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 .

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