Manfred Mann's Earth Band Box Set (1992) Re-up

Most folks know Manfred Mann from his '60s hits, but too few have ever heard the brilliant Manfred Mann's Earth Band album. Exploring arty and progressive directions, the Earth Band was a wholly different group from Mann's earlier lineup. Unlike the heavier art rock groups that would follow (Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Yes), the Earth Band never became burdened by its own seriousness. Manfred Mann's Earth Band combines hypnotic instrumentals ("Tribute"), exhilarating original songs ("Captain Bobby Stout"), and three definitive covers all laden with hooks worthy of "Do Wah Diddy Diddy." Mann mines Dylan's basement tapes again for "Please Mrs. Henry" (see "Quinn the Eskimo" and "Get Your Rocks Off" on other releases). An obscure Dr. John song, "Jump Sturdy" nearly jumps off the record. The synthesizer solo "Sloth" segues into the album's centerpiece, "Living Without You." With its thumping bassline and "So hard" chorus, this might be the best version of a Randy Newman song ever recorded. Closing the album, the Mann himself takes vocal turns on "Part Time Man" and "Up & Leaving," quiet acoustic tales that contrast with the complex instrumentals of the rest of the record. On whole, Manfred Mann's Earth Band is a completely satisfying album and one of the most underrated of the '70s.

by J.P. Ollio, AMG

Tracklist:

01. California Coastline (Walt Meskell, Tim Martin) 02:49
02. Captain Bobby Scout (Lane Tietgen) 06:59
03. Sloth (Manfred Mann, Mick Rogers) 01:26
04. Living Without You (Randy Newman) 03:38
05. Tribute (Mann) 05:37
06. Please Mrs Henry (Bob Dylan) 04:36
07. Jump Sturdy (Dr. John Creaux) 04:54
08. Prayer (Mann) 05:43
09. Part Tine Man (David Sadler, Mann) 03:06
10. I'm Up And I'm Leaving (Mann, Sadler) 03:06

Musicians:

Mick Rogers - guitar, vocals
Manfred Mann - organ, synthesizer, vocals
Colin Pattenden - bass guitar
Chris Slade - drums

The second album by Manfred Mann's Earth Band to be released in 1972, Glorified Magnified is as solid a heavy rock album as you're likely to find from that era, and it still holds up three decades later, mostly because these guys are smarter than the music they're playing and don't mind indulging their taste as well as their dexterity. They can romp and stomp through "Meat" or "I'm Gonna Have You All," complete with a slashing guitar solo by Mick Rogers on the latter, or throw in a synthesizer interlude by Mann on "One Way Glass" that's so quietly and carefully executed as to be worthy of a classical piece – and not skip a beat doing it. Between Rogers' bold yet tasteful leads, Mann's beautifully assertive yet virtuoso synthesizer and general keyboard work, and Colin Pattenden's muscular bass playing, this is a consistently inspired group, even when their material isn't as interesting as what they do with it, which is the case here. On "Look Around," for example, Rogers' playing on the break starts off as brief, fragmentary digressions off from a not too terribly diverting central riff that turn into longer progressions that eventually take the entire band with him – and just when you think you've got this band pegged in terms of what it's about, along comes "Ashes to the Wind," opening side two of the original LP, which includes room for an acoustic guitar amid the high-wattage excursions, all leading into a surprisingly effective synthesizer workout by Mann on "Wind," before moving onto the acoustic guitar-driven "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue." The latter, which adds instrumentation until it's so totally removed from its opening section as to be a different song, is one of the best Dylan covers of its era, and is almost worth the price of admission by itself. And then there's the title instrumental, a mix of rock and synthesizer sounds – with a choir in there somewhere – that sounds like mid-'70s King Crimson in rehearsal.

by Bruce Eder, AMG

Tracklist:

01. Meat (Mann) 04:05
02. Look Around (Slade) 05:11
03. One Way Glass (Mann, Peter Thomas) 04:14
04. I'm Gonna Have You All (Mann) 05:22
05. Down Home (Rogers) 03:19
06. Our Friend George (Mann) 03:03
07. Ashes to the Wind (Charyl Edmonds, Jonah Thompson) 02:14
08. Wind (Mann, Rogers, Pattenden, Slade) 02:01
09. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (Bob Dylan) 04:27
10. Glorified Magnified (Mann) 04:36

Musicians:

Manfred Mann - organ, synthesiser, vocals
Mick Rogers - guitar, vocals
Colin Pattenden - bass guitar
Chris Slade - drums

Opening with Mike Hugg's title track, which builds on Mick Rogers' intense riffing and the killer vocals of Vicki Brown, Judith Powell, Liza Strike, and Ruby James, Messin' is pretty intense and involving from its very first bars. It's also damned topical and serious, for all of the free-wheeling rock & roll spirits and the progressive rock complexities that go into the playing. And the result is a spellbinding whole, featuring some astonishing keyboard flourishes by Manfred Mann himself (who ventures into Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson territory on "Buddah," even as the rest of the band seems to be emulating Deep Purple) and killer guitar from Mick Rogers, while Colin Pattenden and Chris Slade lay down the rhythm section like a pair of articulate pile-drivers. They pretty much stomp their way through their rendition of Bob Dylan's "Get Your Rocks Off" and do a gorgeous high-wattage blues rendition of "Black and Blue." The whole record comes out somewhere in the middle of art rock and heavy metal, along with (amazingly enough) topical folk, and does no violence to any of the genres – and the band even works in a loose-limbed version of Dr. John's "Mardi Gras Day" as a finale. In a way, it's surprising from hearing this record that it took this band another two years, and an embrace of one of Bruce Springsteen's songs, for Manfred Mann's Earth Band to become truly well known, because all of the ingredients were in place, and their genre-bending sound was only the best, most accessible kind. The album was also issued with a different cover as Get Your Rocks Off, but Messin' has become the reissue title.

by Bruce Eder, AMG

Tracklist:

01. Messin' (Mike Hugg) 09:57
02. Buddah (Manfred Mann, Mick Rogers) 07:05
03. Cloudy Eyes (Mann) 05:36
04. Get Your Rocks Off 02:55
05. Sadjoy (Mann) 05:26
06. Black And Blue (Chain: Barry Sullivan, Matt Taylor, Phil Manning, Barry Harvey) 07:24
07. Mardy Gras Day (Dr John Creaux) 03:03

Musicians:

Manfred Mann - synthesiser, organ
Mick Rogers - guitar, vocals
Colin Pattenden - bass guitar
Chris Slade - drums

Laurie Baker - Machines and Zoo on "Messin'"
Liza Strike, Vicki Brown, Judith Powell, Ruby James - backing vocals

Fans of muscular progressive rock will love Solar Fire, a concept album loosely designed around cosmology. The album opens with the majestic "Father of Night, Father of Day," which has the drive and complexity of a prime King Crimson track. As unlikely as it may seem, the track was controversial in Mann's native South Africa because of the "Father of black, father of white" line, implying that apartheid might not extend to infinite space. The album moves on to the progressive rock/jazz fusion of "In the Beginning, Darkness," a swinging, even funky track that benefits from soulful vocals by Doreen Chanter and Irene Chanter of the Grove Singers. The same duo contributes to the title track, a slow piece that begins with a fairly standard rock structure and incorporates a massive progressive jam in the middle. The instrumental suite which follows is a showcase for the combination of angular, sometimes slightly dissonant guitar with fluid keyboard work, and the band rocks straight through with stately grace. Once again, one is reminded of early King Crimson, which was about the only other group to turn out complex, shifting instrumentals of this quality. The album closes with the strange "Earth, the Circle, Pt. 1," which begins almost like a nursery rhyme, switches to a jazz shuffle, and fades out as an odd combination of the two. The album was groundbreaking when it was released and is still a delightful listen. If you like the hard-edged side of Manfred Mann, this may be your favorite album.

by Richard Foss, AMG

Tracklist:

01. Father Of Day, Father Of Night (Bob Dylan) 09:56
02. In The Beginning, Darkness (Manfred Mann, Mick Rogers, Chris Slade) 05:22
03. Pluto The Dog (Mann, Rogers, Slade, Colin Pattenden) 02:50
04. Solar Fire (Mann, Rogers, Slade, Pattenden) 05:17
05. Saturn, Lord Of The Ring / Mercury, The Winged Messenger (Mann/Mann, Rogers) 06:32
06. Earth, The Circle Part 2 (Mann) 03:23
07. Earth, The Circle Part 1 (Mann) 03:48

Musicians:

Manfred Mann – organ, mellotron, synthesiser, vocals
Mick Rogers – guitar, vocals
Chris Slade – drums
Colin Pattenden – bass guitar

Irene Chanter, Doreen Chanter, Grove Singers – backing vocals

Another piece of topical hard rock from Manfred Mann's Earth Band and, as before, listenable even to those without a serious bone in their bodies, by virtue of the playing. Moving between hard rock and British blues influences (with a special debt to Cream on the opening cut, "Give Me the Good Earth") and progressive rock, the quartet cuts a mean swathe across the sonic landscape, between Mick Rogers' soaring guitar solos and Manfred Mann's inimitable synthesizer work. Some of the less ambitious cuts, such as "I'll Be Gone," are relatively dispensable, but when these guys start reaching, as on "Earth Hymn," that's when their best musical instincts take hold, and the results are always worth hearing. There's stuff here that King Crimson or Be Bop Deluxe wouldn't have been ashamed to have had on any of their albums; indeed, the instrumental "Sky High" is worth the price of admission by itself as a showcase for the talents of all four players as both hard rock musicians and an art rock ensemble. They even manage to work in elements of folk-rock, and its attendant lyricism, on the album, by way of the Christopher Logue-based "Be Not Too Hard" (which was also recorded, in a different adaptation, by Joan Baez about seven years earlier). And "Earth Hymn, Pt. 2" closes out the album in grand style, once again pushing the band to the edge of their unique brand of progressive/hard rock.

by Bruce Eder, AMG

Tracklist:

01. Give Me The Good Earth (Gary Wright) 08:32
02. Launching Place (Mike Rudd) 05:51
03. I'll Be Gone (Mike Rudd) 03:40
04. Eart Hymn (Mann, Slade) 06:21
05. Sky High (Mann, Rogers) 05:17
06. Be Not Too Hard (Rogers, Christopher Logue) 04:14
07. Eart Hymn Part 2 (Mann, Slade) 04:15

Musicians:

Manfred Mann – keyboards
Mick Rogers – guitars, vocals
Chris Slade – drums
Colin Pattenden – bass guitar

The album that was Manfred Mann's commercial breakthrough was a departure from the previous albums made with the Earth Band. Though the personnel are the same and the musicianship is as mind-blowing as ever, the songs are shorter and punchier, in some cases more poppy. This is not to say that the band had sacrificed a bit of ingenuity or complexity, but the long jams are gone in favor of briefer sound portraits. Nightingales and Bombers included Manfred Mann's first cover of a Bruce Springsteen song, the album-opening "Spirits in the Night," a single that charted, and became one of the only pieces written in 10/4 time ever to do so. It would prove to be an important move in their recording career, as 1976's Roaring Silence earned them a big hit with Springsteen's "Blinded by the Light." Another foreshadowing of that tune can be detected in the track "Fat Nelly," which includes a synthesizer part almost identical to the intro of the aforementioned hit. Also featured in Nightingales and Bombers are such synth-driven rockers as "Crossfade," "Countdown," and the title track, in which Manfred Mann appear to be trying to capture the prog rock crown. Nightingales and Bombers featured in almost every "Best of the Year" list for 1975. Justifiably so – though attention at the time was naturally on the hits, the rest of the album features a mix of good originals and eccentric covers, inspired playing, and tight, focused arrangements. The album stands up to repeated listening decades after it was created, and though fans of the more expansive progressive phase may prefer earlier works, they will generally allow the excellence of this one. (The name of the album was once regarded as a possible drug reference, but it is actually taken from a nature recording made during World War II. An ornithologist who was trying to record birdcalls captured not only the sound of birds, but also of incoming enemy aircraft. That recording is used in the track "As Above, So Below," and gives it an eerie character.)

by Richard Foss, AMG

Tracklist:

01. Spirits In The Night (Bruce Springsteen) 06:27
02. Countdown (Mann) 03:06
03. Time Is Right (Mann, Slade, Rogers) 06:34
04. Crossfade (Mann, Slade, Rogers, Pattenden) 03:40
05. Visionary Mountains (Pam Nestor, Joan Armatrading) 05:42
06. Nightingales And Bombers (Rogers) 04:56
07. Fat Nelly (Mann, Thomas) 03:21
08. As Above So Below (Recorded Live) (Mann, Slade, Rogers, Pattenden) 04:13

Musicians:

Manfred Mann – organ, synthesisers
Mick Rogers – guitars, vocals
Chris Slade – drums, percussion
Colin Pattenden – bass

Ruby James, Doreen Chanter, Martha Smith – backing vocals
David Millman, Chris Warren-Green – violin
Nigel Warren-Green, Graham Elliott, David Boswell-Brown – cello

The reason that The Roaring Silence became Manfred Mann's Earth Band's best-selling album may have been because of both Bruce Springsteen-penned singles, but its instrumental makeup, by way of Mann's keyboard manipulation coupled with Chris Thompson's chiseled singing, had just as much of an affect. "Blinded By the Light" and "Spirit in the Night" gave the band hits at both ends of the Top 40 spectrum, with "Blinded" going to number one while the mysteriously-sounding "Spirit in the Night" edged in at number 40 six months later. Outside of the singles, The Roaring Silence is made up of clean-cut, well-established synthesizer and guitar work, with touches of techno psychedelia that are sometimes lengthy but never messy. Tracks such as "Questions," "This Side of Paradise," and even "Starbird" uncover the band's creativity and instrumental wit. Mann is careful not to stray too far with his keys, and his compliance with Thompson's vocals are noticeable in almost every track. Aside from the music, The Roaring Silence basks in veiled poetry, cryptic but at the same time intriguing, verging on the complexities of progressive rock but far from its pretentiousness. Eventually achieving gold status, The Roaring Silence both commercially and artistically became the group's finest effort.

by Mike DeGagne, AMG

Tracklist:

01. Blinded By The Light (Bruce Springsteen) 07:07
02. Singing The Dolphin Through (Mike Heron) 08:15
03. Questions (Manfred Mann) 03:58
04. The Road To Babylon (Mann, Thomas, Colin Pattenden) 06:52
05. This Side Of Paradise (Mann, Thomas, Pattenden) 04:44
06. Starbird (Mann, Slade) 03:07
07. Waiter, There's A Yawn In My Ear (Mann, Slade) 05:37

Musicians:

Manfred Mann – keyboards, backing vocals
Colin Pattenden – bass
Dave Flett – lead guitar
Chris Hamlet Thompson – vocals, guitar
Chris Slade – drums, percussion, backing vocals

Doreen Chanter, Irene Chanter, Susanne Lynch, Mick Rogers – backing vocals
Barbara Thompson – saxophone

With essentially the same crew as the excellent Roaring Silence from two years earlier, this is cut from the same musical cloth. However, without the two Bruce Springsteen songs from the earlier album, the material is not as strong. With keyboardist Manfred Mann's jazz leanings melded to a rock band, this sounds much like Colosseum without horns.

by Mark Allan, AMG

Tracklist:

01. Circles (Alan Mark) 04:52
02. Drowning on Dry Land/Fish Soup (Chris Slade, Dave Flett, Manfred Mann) 06:02
03. Chicago Institute (Peter Thomas, Mann, Flett) 05:48
04. California (Sue Vickers) 05:32
05. Davy's on the Road Again (Live) (John Simon, Robbie Robertson) 05:56
06. Martha's Madman (Lane Tietgen) 04:52
07. Mighty Quinn (Live) (Bob Dylan) 06:20

Musicians:

Manfred Mann – keyboards, backing vocals
Chris Slade – drums, percussion
Pat King – bass guitar, backing vocals
Dave Flett – lead guitar, acoustic guitar
Chris Hamlet Thompson – vocals, guitar

Doreen Chanter, Irene Chanter, Stevie Lange, Victy Silva, Kim Goddy – backing vocals

Vocalist Chris Thompson's last album with Manfred Mann's Earth Band is dressed up in Mann's beautiful keyboards. Angel Station has some key moments – "You Angel You," a Bob Dylan tune that sounds nothing like Dylan, and not the way their Top Ten version of "Quinn the Eskimo"/"The Mighty Quinn" was reinvented. "You Angel You" has a strong hook with topnotch Anthony Moore production work, and it melts into the title track of Harriet Schock's landmark Hollywood Town album, the source of Helen Reddy's "Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady." The Manfred Mann version is interesting, and explores the possibilities of the composition, though Schock's version is perfect country-pop and hard to top. It is nice to see a rock band with such good taste. "Angelz at My Gate," co-written by Manfred Mann, leads off side two and is another dreamy "angel" tune. It sounds mysteriously like "Games Without Frontiers," the Peter Gabriel radio hit from his 1980 third self-titled solo album. Now since this was released the year before, do you think Gabriel found inspiration from the grooves of Angel Station? While artists like Gary Wright and Jordan Rudess overwhelm you with the keyboards, Manfred Mann's are indeed the lead instrument, but he uses them to augment the vocals, not to overpower. The John Shaw-photographed album cover looks innocent enough until you turn it upside down – there a female dark angel, in open black cape, exposes her breasts. So blatant, but upside down it probably went right by many retailers, and with no hit single, it probably didn't cause too much of a stir. It's interesting that, like Gary Wright, the Earth Band recorded for Warner Bros., yet both acts only eked out a couple of hit singles. As with Wright's Headin' Home LP, this 1979 album has more than its share of good material, both keyboard players being intuitive artists with credentials and past chart success. Despite good performances on Heron's "Don't Kill It Carol" and a simply wonderful cover of Billy Falcon's 1978 release, "Waiting for the Rain," this is yet another album that deserved a better fate. The rendition of the Falcon tune may be the best performance of one of that singer's compositions ever. The two Manfred Mann songs on side two are excellent: "You Are - I Am" is good and pleasant while "Resurrection" has lyrics that display clever sarcasm and religious – or sacrilegious – overtones. Angel Station is well-crafted music by an industry veteran.

by Joe Viglione, AMG

Tracklist:

01. Don't Kill It Carol (Mike Heron) 06:18
02. You Angel You (Bob Dylan) 04:02
03. Hollywood Town (Schock, Harriet) 05:10
04. "Belle" of the Earth (Mann) 02:45
05. Platform End (O'Neill, Waller, King, E.Ben, Mann) 01:32
06. Angels at My Gate (O'Neill, Martinez, Hirth) 04:49
07. You Are - I Am (Mann) 05:11
08. Waiting for the Rain (Falcon) 06:17
09. Resurrection (Mann) 02:38

Musicians:

Manfred Mann - keyboards, vocals
Geoff Britton - drums, alto saxophone
Pat King - bass guitar
Steve Waller - guitar, vocals on "Don't Kill it Carol", "Angels At My Gate"
Chris Thompson - vocals on "You Angel You", "Hollywood Town", ""Belle" of the Earth", "Waiting for the Rain"

Jimmy O'Neill - guitar
Dyan Birch - backing vocals
Anthony Moore - guitar, sequencer, synthesizer

Manfred Mann's 1980 album is a strange mix of topical songwriting, progressive rock, and power pop – from its opening seconds, the Earth Band is pressing serious messages and social commentary on their listenership amid swirling prog rock keyboards and catchy guitar hooks and choruses. The whole package is challenging in ways that should have put them on the cutting edge of rock music at the outset of that decade, but one suspects that Mann and company were too musically adept and sophisticated for their own good – a little dumbing down and maybe a little less musicianship on display would have made them more accessible to the coming MTV generation. As it is, the album has held up remarkably well across a quarter century, however, even if it now seems an uncomfortably accurate warning of the way the world would go, in terms of politics and society, in the decades to come. It would also be three years before another Earth Band album was forthcoming, and that one would be steeped in world music sounds.

by Bruce Eder, AMG

Tracklist:

01. Lies (Through the 80's) (Denny Newman) 04:37
02. On the Run (Manfred Mann, Tony Ashton, Florrie Palmer) 03:52
03. For You (Bruce Springsteen) 05:43
04. Adolescent Dream (Mann) 02:42
05. Fritz the Blank (Mann) 02:51
06. Stranded (Mike Heron, Mann) 05:50
07. Hello, I Am Your Heart (Dennis Linde) 05:19
08. No Guarantee (Mann) 03:50
09. Heart on the Street (Tom Gray) 04:52

Musicians:

Manfred Mann - keyboards, vocals on "Adolescent Dream"
John Lingwood - drums
Pat King - bass, bass pedals
Mick Rogers - guitars
Steve Waller - guitars, vocals on "This Is Your Heart"
Chris Thompson - vocals on "Lies Through The 80s", "On The Run", "For You"

Trevor Rabin, Robbie McIntosh, Geoff Whitehorn - guitars
Dyan Birch - vocals on "Guarantee" and others
Willy Finlayson - vocals on "Heart On The Street"
Peter Marsh - vocals on "Stranded"
Carol Stocker - backing vocals
Barbara Thompson - saxophone

Somewhere in Afrika, an ode to Mann's home country of South Africa, contains a formula that is atypical of Manfred Mann's Earth Band sound. With rhythms that combine an African flavor with a modern rock feel, vocalist Mick Rogers takes over on vocals with the number 22 hit "Runner," released as the album's only single. Tracks such as "Demolition Man" and "Eyes of Nostradamus" are model Earth Band efforts, but the compelling material lies in songs such as "Lalela," "Koze Kobenini," and the title track, which conveys Mann's love for his birthplace without sounding overly pretentious or manufactured. The instrumentation is solid and free-flowing, with drums and other percussion work coming to the forefront while maintaining the group's atmosphere as a rock band. Somewhere in Afrika gave Manfred Mann's Earth Band their highest-charting American album since 1976's The Roaring Silence, peaking at number 40, but the tight musicianship and unrestricted layout of the music prove that the album should have placed much higher.

by Mike DeGagne, AMG

Tracklist:

01. Redemption Song (No Kwazulu) (Bob Marley) 07:38
02. Somewhere In Africa (Trad. arr. Mann, Lingwood) 01:40
03. Tribal Statistics (Qunta) 04:15
04. Africa Suite (Mann, Irving, Lingwood) 08:42
a) Brothers And Sisters Of Africa (Mann) 03:06
b) To Bantustan? (Mann) 02:36
c) Koze Kobeni? (How Long Must We Wait?) (Mann, Irving) 01:26
d) Lalela (Mann, Lingwood) 01:31
05. Eyes Of Nostradamus (Al Stewart) 03:29
06. Demolition Man (Sting) 03:44
07. Third World Service (Moore) 05:19
08. Brothers And Sisters Of Azania (Mann) 02:46

Musicians:

Manfred Mann - keyboards, synthesisers
John Lingwood - drums, percussion
Steve Waller - vocals, guitar on "Eyes of Nostradamus", "Third World Service", "Demolition Man"
Chris Thompson - vocals
Matt Irving - bass, programming (MC4)
Shona Laing - vocals
Trevor Rabin - lead guitar on Redemption Song

Manfred Mann's Earth Band had no shortage of albums to their credit across the 1970s and 1980s, though how many of them made it into the hands of American listeners is questionable – you'd have thought a live album would have been forthcoming sometime fairly soon after they scored their chart-topping hit with "Blinded by the Light," but that wasn't the case. This concert album, recorded rather later on, live in Budapest on April 6 and 7, 1983, in the city's Sportshalle, was much more easily available in Europe than in the U.S.A. By that date, the band was a five-piece consisting of Manfred Mann on keyboards and synthesizer, John Lingwood on drums, Chris Thompson on vocals and guitar, Steve Waller on vocals and guitar, and Matt Irving on bass. They were a first-rate band in their way, and exciting enough, but early in this set they seem to lack a lot of the subtleties that made the early-'70s version of the band interesting to listen to. What they were here – at least on the first side of the original LP – was loud. They opened with "Spirits in the Night" in a full arena-scale high-energy workout, with two guitars hard at work. The rest is similarly proportioned, until you get to "Blinded by the Light" on side two, which in all of its details and nuances recalls the balance of the early Manfred Mann's Earth Band, with plenty of room for all of the players. And from there on, the concert – even encompassing acoustic guitars on "Redemption Song (No Kwazulu)" – is what one would hope for from this band. The original LP ended with a thundering rendition of "Mighty Quinn," which is still a powerful listening experience in the hands of anyone associated with Manfred Mann (who, for his part, provides an extremely animated organ part, able to hold its own between the two guitarists). The original LP release – which has since been expanded and vastly improved for CD – finishes stronger than it starts, and is filled with surprises along the way, but isn't nearly as essential listening as any of the group's first half-dozen or so albums.

by Bruce Eder , AMG

Tracklist:

01. Spirits In The Night (Bruce Springsteen) 06:04
02. Demolition Man (Gordon Sumner) 04:26
03. For You (Springsteen) 06:49
04. Davy's On The Road Again (Simon, Robertson) 04:40
05. Lies (Through The 80's) (Newman) 04:35
06. Blinded By The Light (Springsteen) 07:46
07. Redemption Song (No Kwazulu) (Bob Marley) 03:24
08. Mighty Quinn (Bob Marley) 04:09

Musicians:

Manfred Mann - keyboards, synthesisers, vocals
John Lingwood - drums
Steve Waller - guitar, vocals
Chris Thompson - vocals, guitar
Matt Irving - bass, vocals








Tracklist:

01. Joybringer (Mann, Slade, Rogers) (1973) 03:29
02. Interview (An Interview with Manfred Mann By Andy Taylor) (1992) 48:58
03. The Runner (Ian Thomas) (1984) 04:39





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