- The Roaring Silence
Infobox Album
Name = The Roaring Silence
Type = Studio album
Artist =Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Released =27 August 1976
Recorded = Workhouse Studios,Old Kent Road ,London , 1976
Genre = RockHard rock Progressive rock
Length = 47:01
Label =
Producer = Manfred Mann and Earth Band
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.0|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:4s9sa9ygy23s~T1 link]
Last album = "Nightingales and Bombers " (1975)
This album = "The Roaring Silence" (1976)
Next album = "Watch" (1978)"The Roaring Silence" is an album released in 1976 by
Manfred Mann's Earth Band . Like other Earth Band albums, this includes material by other composers. "Blinded by the Light ", which reached number one in "Billboard's"Hot 100 , is a cover version of a track byBruce Springsteen ; "Questions" is based on the main theme ofFranz Schubert 's Impromptu in G flat Major [Südwestrundfunk page on "The Roaring Silence" [http://www.swr.de/swr1/rp/musik/meilenstein/-/id=1949936/nid=1949936/did=2689352/1jrtizh/index.html] (in German, checked 03/11/08)] ; "Starbird" takes its theme fromIgor Stravinsky 'sballet The Firebird .Track listing
#"
Blinded by the Light " (Bruce Springsteen ) – 7:08
#"Singing The Dolphin Through" (Mike Heron ) – 8:19
#"Waiter There's a Yawn in My Ear" (Manfred Mann) – 5:39
#"The Road to Babylon" (Mann,Chris Slade , Mick Rogers,Colin Pattenden ) – 6:53
#"This Side of Paradise" (Mann, Slade, Rogers, Pattenden) – 4:47
#"Starbird" (Mann, Slade) – 3:09
#"Questions" (Mann, Slade) – 4:00
#"Spirits in the Night" (1977 version) (Springsteen) – 3:16
#"Blinded by the Light" (single edit) (Springsteen) – 3:49Tracks 8-9: Bonus Tracks (1998 re-issue)Personnel
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Manfred Mann - keyboards, backing vocals
*Colin Pattenden - bass
*Dave Flett -lead guitar
*Chris Hamlet Thompson - vocals,guitar
*Chris Slade - drums, percussion, backing vocalswith
*Doreen Chanter - backing vocals
*Irene Chanter - backing vocals
*Susanne Lynch - backing vocals
*Mick Rogers - backing vocals
*Barbara Thompson -saxophone References
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