Manfred Mann
Acting
Biography
Manfred Sepse Lubowitz (born 21 October 1940), known professionally as Manfred Mann, is a South African-born musician, residing in the UK since 1961. He is best known as a founding member of the eponymous 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. In 1962, 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 named after him, and they signed a record deal with EMI in 1963, under the His Master's Voice label. Prominent in the Swinging London scene of the 1960s, the group regularly appeared in the UK Singles Chart. Three of their most successful singles, "Do Wah Diddy Diddy", "Pretty Flamingo", and "Mighty Quinn", topped the UK charts. The band's 1964 hit "5-4-3-2-1" was the theme tune for the ITV pop music show Ready Steady Go!. They were also the first southern-England-based group to top the US Billboard Hot 100 during the British Invasion. The band split up in 1969. With Manfred Mann recently broken up, Mann and Mike Hugg created Manfred Mann Chapter Three. The group's debut performance, which was at Newcastle's Mayfair ballroom on 24 October 1969, consisted of Mann and Hugg on keyboards and organ, as well as: Bernie Living (alto sax), Steve York (bass guitar), Craig Collinge (drums). They were also backed by a five-piece brass group consisting of: Clive Stevens (tenor sax), Carl Griffiths (tenor sax), Dave Coxhill (baritone sax), Gerald Drewett (trombone), Sonny Corbett (trumpet). They recorded two albums: Manfred Mann Chapter Three, in 1969, and Manfred Mann Chapter Three Volume Two, in 1970. The group were never commercially successful, and split up in late 1970. In 1971, Mann formed Manfred Mann's Earth Band. They had a chart topping hit in 1976 with a cover of the 1973 Bruce Springsteen song "Blinded by the Light"; their cover went to number one in Canada and the U.S. Although the group never had the same success of "Blinded by the Light", as of 2025 the band is still active, and Mann still tours with the group along with founding member Mick Rogers. Manfred Mann appeared as a jazz pianist in the 1969 Jesús Franco film Venus in Furs, and performed the score for that film. He also released solo projects under the names Manfred Mann's Plain Music and Manfred Mann '06. Manfred Mann played a Minimoog solo on the Uriah Heep song "July Morning". He also played keyboards on Trevor Rabin's album Wolf. ... Source: Article "Manfred Mann (musician)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Discorama
A documentary series about pop and rock albums that are considered the best or most distinctive of a well-known band or musician or that exemplify a stage in the history of music.
Classic Albums
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Dim Dam Dom
Beat-Club was a German music program that ran from September 1965 to December 1972. It is notable for being the first German show to be based around popular music, and featured artists such as The Equals, Grateful Dead, Zager and Evans, Cream, Frank Zappa, The Rolling Stones, Gene Pitney, Ten Years After, Rory Gallagher, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Ike & Tina Turner, The Who, Black Sabbath, Harry Nilsson, David Bowie, The Bee Gees, The Beach Boys, Chicago, The Doors, Kraftwerk and Robin Gibb in its seven-year run. In 1972, it was replaced by Musikladen.
Beat-Club
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Der goldene Schuß
After a jazz musician finds a woman's corpse washed up on the beach and remembers that he witnessed her murder at a party the previous night, a woman who bears a strong resemblance to her begins to exact revenge on the murderers.
Venus in Furs
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Soeben eingetroffen
A young woman trades her upper-class existence for a new life in an economically depressed suburb of London.
Up the Junction
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.
Classic Albums: Cream - Disraeli Gears
In this debut comedy by director Erik Terpstra, an ordinary middle-class gentleman picks up a colorful but degenerate and no-good beatnik/hippie hitchhiker and inexplicably invites him home to meet the wife and kids. The resulting conflicts between the hitchhiker, who respects no rules or boundaries, and the family, provide the substance for most of the humor in this sincere but not especially well-thought-out film. Reviewers who saw the film at the 1967 Mannheim Film Festival expressed the opinion that it was an unformed work by a promising talent.
The Whipping Cream Hero
20 classic performances from the 1960s. Black & White, Special Limited Edition, Live, Original recording of artists including Lulu, Peter & Gordon, The Troggs, Herman's Hermits, The Small Faces, Cilla Black, Barry Ryan, Cat Stevens, Gerry & the Pacemakers, Manfred Mann, and more.
60s Legends in Concert
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
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Live In Budapest
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Best of Night of the Proms Vol. 2
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Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Baloise Session 2017
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: Angel Station in Moscow
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 - Ohne Filter Extra
Concert by Manfred Mann's Earth Band, recorded Live at Sportcsarnok Budapest, Hungary - April 7, 1983.