🎼21 October 1940. Happy 81 Birthday 😳 to Mr. Manfred Mann, born Manfred Sepse Lubowitz in Johannesburg, South Africa, songwriter, arranger and #keyboardist 🎹who crossed all the decades in rock music history with his Manfred Mann's Earth Band. They've released so many singles and albums since 1964 with fair success, but curiously they came to prominence in the 70s only after covering some #BruceSpringsteen hits 🤟... like this one I post, my favorite👇
In the video #ManfredMann is of course the guy on keyboards 🎹😉
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https://youtu.be/lKPG_h8BlJE

📀 Album of the Week
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📌21 October 1977

Meat Loaf
📀 Bat Out of Hell
#HardRock #PopRock #ProgressiveRock

45 years ago Meat Loaf from Dallas, #USA released his debut album, Bat Out of Hell.

This album started the longtime succesful partnership between vocalist #MeatLoaf and songwriter #JimSteinman, the latter wrote Bat Out Of Hell based on his 1974 Rock Musical Neverland.

It was produced by #ToddRundgren who also appears as musician (guitar, keyboards, percussion) and brought in from his band Utopia #RogerPowell (synthesizer), #RoryDodd (backing vocals), #KasimSulton (bass).
Notable guest musicians are #RoyBittan (piano, keyboards) and #MaxWeinberg (drums) from Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, #EdgarWinter (Sax), Broadway singer and actrees #EllenFolley, concert master #GeneOrloff.

Bat Out of Hell has become a Musical itself in 2017 and to date it's one of the best selling albums in history with it 43 million copies worldwide!
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🎧Listen to Bat Out of Hell
👉 here

Born Today in Rock 🎸
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