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Manfred Mann's Earth Band

Band, *1971
Rock

After a very successful period in the 60's with the pop group named after him and a much less successful intermezzo in Jazz with Chapter Three, the South-African born keyboardist Manfred Mann turned towards Rock music. In 1971 he formed Manfred Mann's Earth Band (MMEB). Mann's use of the Moog synthesizer was key to the sound of this band. MMEB had a very successful area during the mid 70's and early 80's but was disbanded by Mann in 1987 after being fed up with trying to produce hit records. He started a project which was based mostly on the music of Native American Indians named Manfred Mann's Plain Music and which released one album. After this Mann reformed the MMEB in 1991 and was starting again to release records with them occasionally but also to be a regular live band with extensive tours mostly in Europe until today.

Members

	Noel McCalla voc, perc *1956 GB
	Chris Thompson voc, g *1948 GB
	Peter Cox voc, key, g *1955 GB
	Richard Marcangelo dr
	Matt Irving b 2015-2015 GB
	Jimmy Copley dr *1953 GB
	Shona Laing voc *1955 NZ
	Maggie Ryder bvoc, voc GB
	Chris Slade dr *1946 GB
	Robert Hart voc *1958 GB
	Mick Rogers g, voc *1946 GB
	Colin Pattenden b, eb *1947 GB
	Clive Bunker dr, perc *1946 GB
	Andy Qunta key, p GB
	Dave Flett acg, g *1951 GB
	Geoff Dunn dr *1961 GB
	Geoff Britton dr *1943 GB
	Dyan Birch bvoc, voc *1949 GB
	John Lingwood dr, perc *1951 GB
	Steve Waller voc, g 1951-2000 GB
	Pat King b, eb, bvoc GB
	Peter May syn, dr, acg, eg
	David Farmer dr, voc *1952 GB
	John Trotter dr GB
	Steve Kinch b, eb, voc
	Manfred Lubowitz voc, g, key *1940 ZA