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Why Manfred Mann Is the Most Underappreciated Group of the British Invasion

Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, January 2017

MANFRED MANN were one of only two British groups to have a #1 single in 1964 without a Lennon-McCartney song. They were endorsed by Bob Dylan, were part of the first movie soundtrack composed by Burt Bacharach, provided theme songs for the best U.K. rock television show of the '60s, Ready Steady Go!, and wrote the score for the film Up the Junction.

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