Manfred Mann

Manfred Mann

Birth : 1940-10-21, Johannesburg, South Africa

History

Manfred Sepse Lubowitz (born 21 October 1940), known professionally as Manfred Mann, is a South African–English keyboardist, arranger, singer and songwriter. He is best known as a founding member and eponym of the bands Manfred Mann, Manfred Mann Chapter Three and Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Lubowitz was raised in a Lithuanian-Jewish family in Johannesburg, the son of David Lubowitz and Alma Cohen. He studied music at the University of the Witwatersrand, and worked as a jazz pianist at a number of clubs in Johannesburg. Strongly opposed to the apartheid system in his native South Africa, Lubowitz moved to the United Kingdom in 1961 and began to write for Jazz News under the pseudonym Manfred Manne (after jazz drummer Shelly Manne), which was soon shortened to Manfred Mann. The next year he met drummer and keyboard player Mike Hugg at Clacton Butlins Holiday Camp; together they formed a large blues-jazz band called the Mann-Hugg Blues Brothers. This eventually evolved into a five-piece group, and they signed a record deal with EMI in 1963, under the HMV label. They changed their name to Manfred Mann at the suggestion of the label's record producer, and from 1964 to 1969 they had a succession of hit records, including "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" (originally by The Exciters), "Sha La La" (originally by The Shirelles), "Pretty Flamingo", and "Mighty Quinn" (written by Bob Dylan). The group split up in 1969, and Mann immediately formed another outfit with Mike Hugg; Manfred Mann Chapter Three, an experimental jazz rock band. They disbanded after two albums, but Mann formed a new outfit in 1971, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, which still records and performs to this day. Their well-known hits included three Springsteen covers, "Spirit in the Night", "For You" and "Blinded by the Light", as well as a number of covers of other artists, including "Runner" (Ian Thomas), "Davy's on the Road Again" (The Band), "You Angel You" (Bob Dylan), "Demolition Man" (The Police), "Lies (Through the '80s)" and "Joybringer" (based upon "Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity" from The Planets by Gustav Holst.) Manfred Mann also appeared as a jazz pianist in the 1969 Jesús Franco film Venus in Furs, and performed the score for that film. He has also released solo projects under "Manfred Mann's Plain Music" and "Manfred Mann '06". Mann has used various keyboard instruments through his career (piano and organ in the early 1960s, later also including mellotron), but he is especially known for his distinctive solo performance on the Minimoog synthesizer, which he personalized by extensive use of a filter. His keyboard parts are often improvised and inspired by jazz. One example, as he explained in an interview with eclipsed magazine, is his tendency to bend notes downwards on the synthesizer, which he says he got from Miles Davis. In the 2000s, he has regularly used a Roland keytar on stage for two or three songs. The instrument is visually striking for being decorated with zebra stripes. In the early 1970s, he played drums during the intro of the song "Black and Blue". ... Source: Article "Manfred Mann (musician)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Manfred Mann

Movies

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Baloise Session 2017
keyboards, vocals
Manfred Mann's Earth Band: In Europe
Keyboards
Concert by Manfred Mann's Earth Band, recorded Live at Sportcsarnok Budapest, Hungary - April 7, 1983.
Best of Night of the Proms Vol. 2
Classic Albums: Cream - Disraeli Gears
Self
This addition of Disraeli Gears to the acclaimed Classic Albums series features brand new interviews with Clapton, Baker and Bruce, along with lyricist Pete Brown, Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun, John Mayall and Manfred Mann. Also included on the DVDare acoustic performances, original studio tracks and archival live footage. Included are additional interviews and analysis of the tracks, Exclusive acoustic performances, exclusive solo piano performance and previously unreleased full live performances. Though they were only together for two brief years (1966-1968), the London-based power trio Cream changed the face of rock with their jazz-schooled psychedelic blues--and never more so than on their 1967 classic DISRAELI GEARS. This program offers a critical review of the landmark album through archival footage, rare live performance clips, and interviews with rock critics, musicologists, and band members.
Manfred Mann's Earth Band: Angel Station in Moscow
keyboards & vocals
Classic rockers Manfred Mann's Earth Band delivers the goods in this live concert filmed in Moscow in 2000, featuring many of the group's hits such as "The Mighty Quinn," "Blinded by the Light" and "Father of Day, Father of Night." Mann and company prove they still have the chops on other tunes, including "Angels at My Gate," "Davy's on the Road Again," "Demolition Man," "Castles Burning," "Martha's Madman," "Redemption Song" and more.
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Ohne Filter Extra
Broadcast recording of Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, recorded live at SWR Studio in Baden, Germany for the series Ohne Filter, during 1999.
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Live In Budapest
keyboards, vocals
Manfred Mann's Earth Band live in Budapest 1983-04-06+07 Track list: Angels at My Gate, Lies (Through the 80s), Africa Suite, Tribal Statistics, Martha's Madman, You Angel You, For You, Demolition Man, Mighty Quinn, Don't Kill It Carol, For You, Redemption Song
Paroxismus
Music
A musician finds the corpse of a beautiful woman on the beach. The woman returns from the dead to take revenge on the group of wealthy sadists responsible for her death.
Paroxismus
Jazz Musician
A musician finds the corpse of a beautiful woman on the beach. The woman returns from the dead to take revenge on the group of wealthy sadists responsible for her death.
Up the Junction
Original Music Composer
A young woman trades her upper-class existence for a new life in an economically depressed suburb of London.