Manfred Mann The Best of

In some ways, it's easy to think of A Night on the Town, Rod Stewart's second album for Warner, as a reprisal of the first, cut with many of the same musicians as Atlantic Crossing, produced once again by Tom Dowd, and even following its predecessor's conceit of having a "Slow Side" and "Fast Side" (granted, this flips the two around, opening with the slow one first)…

Without Alexis Korner, there still might have been a British blues scene in the early 1960s, but chances are that it would have been very different from the one that spawned the Rolling Stones, nurtured the early talents of Eric Clapton, and made it possible for figures such as John Mayall to reach an audience. Born of mixed Turkish/Greek/Austrian descent, Korner spent the first decade of his life in France, Switzerland, and North Africa, and arrived in London in May of 1940, just in time for the German blitz, during which Korner discovered American blues. One of the most vivid memories of his teen years was listening to a record of bluesman Jimmy Yancey during a German air raid. "From then on," he recalled in an interview, "all I wanted to do was play the blues."

Back in 2006 after I left DOMAIN, even if we ended up with the best album that band was able to do, I needed a change of pace, something a bit more back to where I came from, back to where my heart is. What I wanted to do was a real Classic Rock album. Straight PURPLE, RAINBOW, HEEP, MANFRED MANN… you name it. Quickly I got the boys together to do it, and we managed to record a few demos. Unfortunately, the band disbanded shortly after, and as my studio jobs became more and more interesting and important, I put that idea on hold. A couple years later in 2009 I finally came to the conclusion, not to go out looking for steady band members, but to try to get all my friends together to help me out making the album, I always wanted to make…

In the mid Seventies, the heyday of "classical rock", the best British musicians gathered together to release an adaptation of Prokofiev's masterpiece "Peter And The Wolf". Featured in this interesting adventure are Phil Collins, Cozy Powell, Manfred Mann, Bill Bruford, Jon Hiseman, Jack Lancaster, Gary Moore, Brian Eno, Robin Lumley, Julie Tippetts, Percy Jones, Gary Brooker, John Goodsall, Keith Tippetts, Alvin Lee, Chris Spedding… Written in three other languages apart from English (French, Spanish and German), this version is told by Viv Stanshall. One can also notice the surprising presence of the legendary French violinist Stephane Grappelli, who usually performs jazz music.

These 5 CDs for lovers of the timeless classics of rock and roll, those who missed and wanted to hear this wonderful music !

In the mid Seventies, the heyday of "classical rock", the best British musicians gathered together to release an adaptation of Prokofiev's masterpiece "Peter And The Wolf". Featured in this interesting adventure are Phil Collins, Cozy Powell, Manfred Mann, Bill Bruford, Jon Hiseman, Jack Lancaster, Gary Moore, Brian Eno, Robin Lumley, Julie Tippetts, Percy Jones, Gary Brooker, John Goodsall, Keith Tippetts, Alvin Lee, Chris Spedding… Written in three other languages apart from English (French, Spanish and German), this version is told by Viv Stanshall. One can also notice the surprising presence of the legendary French violinist Stephane Grappelli, who usually performs jazz music.

Greatest Ever Sixties brings you the best-loved songs and artists from one of the most eclectic decades in music. Rock, Country, Folk, Pop and Soul all vie for attention in this incredible value-for-money 3CD set. Featuring Lulu , Tom Jones , Diana Ross & The Supremes , Small Faces, Spencer Davis Group , Julie Driscol, Brian Auger & The Trinity , Marvin Gaye , The Mamas And The Papas , Jose Feliciano , Procol Harum , Long John Baldry , Donovan , Dusty Springfield , 5th Dimension , Scott McKenzie , Ralph McTell , Jackie Trent , Lonnie Donegan and much more.