Chance

by Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann

Overview

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. ~ Bruce Eder

Product Details

Release Date:	09/04/2015
Label:	CREATURE MUSIC
UPC:	5060051333514

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Manfred Mann's Earth Band   Primary Artist
Manfred Mann   Primary Artist,Vocals,Keyboards,Synthesizer
Robbie McIntosh   Guitar
Trevor Rabin   Guitar
Geoff Whitehorn   Guitar
Barbara Thompson   Saxophone
Chris Thompson   Guitar,Vocals,Saxophone
John Lingwood   Drums
Steve Waller   Guitar,Vocals
Dyan Birch   Vocals
Graham Preskett   Vocals
Mick Rogers   Guitar,Vocals
Willy Finlayson   Vocals
Pat King   Bass
Carol Stocker   Vocals
Peter Marsh   Vocals

Technical Credits

Tony Ashton   Composer
Trevor Rabin   Associate Producer
Dennis Linde   Composer
Robert Stewart   Engineer
Pete Schwier   Engineer
Rick Walton   Engineer
Naughty by Nature   Composer
Mike Heron   Composer
David "Fathead" Newman   Composer
Bruce Springsteen   Composer
Tom Gray   Composer,Composer
Ian Matthews   Composer
Laurie Latham   Engineer
Tim Summerhayes   Engineer
Martin Poole   Cover Design
Edwin Cross   Engineer
Ole Kortzau   Cover Design
David Barratt   Engineer,Tape Operator
Manfred Mann   Composer,Producer
Courtesy Thumb Gallery   Photography
Florrie Palmer   Composer