Today's Morning Edition music is from "Blinded by the Light" by Manfred Mann's Earth Band, which was No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart 40 years ago. The song was written by Bruce Springsteen and ...

Manfred Mann’s cover of “Blinded by the Light” is just as well-known as the original song, if not more. While the band used their own sound and style to make it their own, they still kept ...

I n 1977, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band released a cover of the Bruce Springsteen song “Blinded by the Light.” The song charted higher than Springsteen’s own version. The Manfred Mann version ...

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Manfred Mann’s version of “Blinded by the Light” topped the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 after its 1976 release, elevating the English rock band into an international household name.

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The area of land in question is 1,000 feet above sea level on a remote moor, and when interviewed in 1995 Manfred Mann himself recalled that the band only paid a few hundred pounds for the plot, ...

I think that's quite important," Mann said. "Blinded by the Light" was included on the Earth Band's seventh album, The Roaring Silence , and was a hit in 1976, on the heels of their cover of ...

It seems astonishing that Manfred Mann's songs were, on the whole, so chipper. Looking back in 1976, Manfred moaned "the Sixties goldfish bowl was terrible, man. Just awful.