Manfred Mann's Earth Band - For You (Original Album Version)

Like "Blinded By The Light" and "Spirit in the Night" (on The Roaring Silence), this song was covered byManfred Mann's Earth Band for their album Chance.^[6] As with Manfred Mann Earth Band's previous Springsteen covers, they used a more forceful, rockier sound in "For You" than Springsteen did.^[6] The Earth Band version built from a more temperate beginning to an explosion of sound in the bridge, and incorporates five guitars and an impressive keyboard solo by Manfred Mann 3/4 of the way into the song.^[6] The song was also included on the compilation albums The Best of Manfred Mann's Earth Band and Blinded by the Light & Other Hits.^[6] However, the single release did not achieve the success of their other Springsteen covers.

Manfred Mann's Earth Band Tribal Statistics - Somewhere In Afrika

March 26 2014 / 26 de marzo 2014

I love this song! It is featured in Manfred Mann's Earth Band's somewhat underrated 1983 album Somewhere in Afrika. Side one of this LP featured the top 40 hit Runner. The entire side two is one single musical concept: a cry of protest against the universally despised apartheid regime in Mann's natal country South Africa. Years before Artists United Against Apartheid's album and song Sun City and Paul Simon's super hit album Graceland, Mann's band was already calling out apartheid.

"Tribal Statistics" is my favorite piece from this album. It sounds like A Flock of Seagulls, but with a political conscience. It was written by Andy Qunta, who would later join Icehouse.

¡Me encanta esta canción! Es parte de Somewhere in Afrika, un disco un tanto subestimado que Manfred Mann's Earth Band sacó en 1983. El lado 1 de este elepé tiene la canción "Runner", que llegó a la lista Top 40 de Estados Unidos. El lado 2 entero tiene varias piezas unificadas por un concepto: protesta y repudio contra el universalmente detestado régimen racista apartheid en Suráfrica, país natal de Manfred Mann. Años antes de Artistas Unidos contra el Apartheid y su disco Sun City y antes del super exitoso disco Graceland de Paul Simon, ya Mann y su banda estaban condenando públicamente al apartheid.

"Tribal Statistics" es mi pieza favorita de este disco. Suena como una especie de Flock of Seagulls con conciencia política. Fue compuesta por Andy Qunta, quien luego se uniría a la banda Icehouse.

Manfred Mann - Third World Service

Another great song from Manfred Mann's Earth Band's 1983 album Somewhere in Afrika.

This is from Wikipedia:

By this time Mann had become personally active in the international anti-apartheid movement and was banned from entering his home country of South Africa. Undeterred, members of the band made journeys to South Africa to record African musicians for the album Somewhere in Afrika (which in some ways pre-figured Paul Simon's Graceland). 

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Eyes of Nostradamus

A song by Al Stewart covered by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in their 1983 album Somewhere in Afrika.