Manfred Mann's Earth Band in the 1970s: Decades

by John van der Kiste

Having moved from jazz, Blues and R'n'B to out-and-out pop in his various 1960s bands, keyboard player Manfred Mann went back to the drawing board in 1971 with a new quartet, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, and the intention of focusing on progressive rock. With a repertoire that leant partly on radical rearrangements of songs by Bob Dylan and then Bruce Springsteen, largely instrumental epics that borrowed from Gustav Holst's The Planets suite, and improvisations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789522439
• ISBN13: 9781789522433
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Sonicbond Publishing
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.2"