Results for Manfred Mann

  • Manfred Mann: The Manfred Mann Album

    by j. poetJune 4, 2009Comments (0)

    "On chestnuts like '(I’m Your) Hoochie Coochie Man' and 'Smokestack Lightning', Jones wails like a banshee." (read more)

  • Cream: Background to a Break-Up

    by Chris WelchNovember 26, 2008Comments (0)

    Originally published in  Melody Maker , July 1968 Cream are breaking up. The world-famous trio that features Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, and Jack Bruce are to go separate ways in the autumn. Said Eric at his Chelsea home this week: "I’ve been on the road seven years and I’m going on a big holiday." It was two years ago, in July 1966, that three of Britain’s most outstanding instrumentalists electrified the blues world by joining forces. (read more)

  • Gary Glitter: Garbage Rock Comes of Age

    by Dave MarshNovember 14, 2007Comments (4)

    When the curtain comes up, the band is all ready there, pumping out a fuzzy, semi-atonal, rhythmically confused version of left-field '50s music. They are swathed in silver lame´ sparkling against hot white super-troupers, lights designed for stardom. There are six of them, guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, two horns. (read more)