Manfred Mann's Earth Band: Get Your Rocks Off
Wayne Robins, Creem, August 1973
MANFRED MANN'S a survivor. What that means is that no matter where you got on the bus: be it with Do Wah Diddy Diddy in the summer of 1964, or with Mighty Quinn, some years later, or with the ill-fated Chapter III, or the Earth Band – no matter where you found Manfred, the dude was saying something.
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