Name | Manfred Mann |
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Background | group_or_band |
Origin | London, England |
Genre | Beat, R&B; |
Years active | 1962–1969 |
Label | HMV, EMI, Capitol, Ascot (US), Fontana, Mercury (US) |
Associated acts | Manfred Mann Chapter Three, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, The Blues Band, The Manfreds, McGuinness Flint |
Alias | Mann-Hugg Blues Brothers |
Past members | Manfred MannMike HuggMike VickersDave RichmondPaul JonesMike d'AboKlaus VoormannJack BruceTom McGuinnessDave Flett }} |
Manfred Mann were a British beat, rhythm and blues and pop band of the 1960s, named after their South African keyboardist, Manfred Mann, who later led the successful 1970s group Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Manfred Mann were chart regulars in the 1960s, and the first south-of-England-based group to top the US Billboard Hot 100 during the British invasion. by keyboard player Manfred Mann and drummer/vibes/piano player Mike Hugg, who formed a house band in Clacton-on-Sea that also featured Graham Bond. Bringing a shared love of jazz to the British blues boom, then sweeping London's clubs (which also spawned Alexis Korner, The Rolling Stones and The Yardbirds), the band was completed by Mike Vickers on guitar, alto saxophone and flute, bassist Dave Richmond and Paul Jones as lead vocalist and harmonicist. By this time they had changed their name to Manfred Mann & The Manfreds. Gigging throughout late 1962 and early 1963 the band soon attracted attention for their distinctive sound.
After changing their name to Manfred Mann at the behest of their label's producer John Burgess), the group signed with His Master's Voice in March 1963 and began their recorded output that July with the slow, bluesy instrumental single "Why Should We Not?",. It failed to chart, as did its follow-up (with vocals), "Cock-a-Hoop." The overdubbed instrumental soloing on woodwinds, vibes, harmonica and second keyboard lent considerable weight to the group's sound and demonstrated the jazz-inspired technical prowess in which they took pride.
With the success of "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" the sound of the group's singles moved away from the jazzy, blues-based music of their early years to a pop hybrid that continued to make hit singles from cover material. They hit #3 in the UK with another girl-group cover "Sha La La", and the group switched labels to Fontana Records, The next two singles "Semi-Detached, Suburban Mr James" and "Ha Ha Said The Clown" both reached the Top 5. In December another EP set of instrumentals, Instrumental Assassination, was released but an instrumental version of Tommy Roe's "Sweet Pea" only reached #36 when issued as a single and the follow-up, Randy Newman's "So Long, Dad", with its intricate keyboard arrangement, missed the top twenty altogether, making 1967 an unsuccessful year in the charts with no album as Mann and Hugg explored other avenues of their career. 1968 brought two albums, the Mann-Hugg soundtrack to the film Up the Junction in February and Mighty Garvey! in July. They had a resounding success with "Mighty Quinn", their third UK #1 and third hit Dylan song, Their December 1968 release "Fox on the Run" reached #5 in the UK. The group split in 1969, while their final hit, "Ragamuffin Man", was in the Top 10. For a moment their musical worlds coincided: a TV cigar advertisement, a long track from Chapter Three's first album and "A "B" Side", the flip of the old group's last single, all used the same riff. The new group was, however, short lived and by 1971 they had disbanded and Mann had formed Manfred Mann's Earth Band. In June 1983 Manfred Mann briefly reformed for an appearance at the Marquee Club in London, to help celebrate the club's 25th anniversary.
In the 1990s most of the original 1960s line-up reformed as The Manfreds, minus Manfred Mann himself (hence the name), playing most of the old 1960s hits and a few jazz instrumentals, sometimes with both Paul Jones and Mike d'Abo fronting the line-up. McGuinness formed McGuinness Flint in 1970,scoring a few hits before they disbanded in 1975. Both Jones and McGuinness have been mainstays of The Blues Band, which they helped form in 1978.
In 2009 The Manfreds; Mike D’Abo, Mike Hugg, Paul Jones and Tom McGuinness joined Klaus Voorman performing a version of Mighty Quinn for his first solo collection A Sideman's Journey credited to "Voormann & Friends."
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