Manfred Mann's Earth Band: Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Dave Marsh, Creem, April 1972
MANFRED MANN'S strength, perhaps his only one, is as an interpreter. His jazzlike motions with Chapter Three the group that was broken up so that he could form Earth Band were in context, excellent, but they did not command. They demanded, at once, too much and too little.
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