Manfred Mann was forced to wait 13 long years after previously hitting No. 1 with "Do Wah Diddy Diddy." Springsteen never got to the top as a solo artist, finishing at No. 2 with "Dancing in the ...

Manfred Mann was a British blues/rock quintet formed in England in the late 1950s. Originally, they were known as the Mann-Hugg Blues Brothers, but then changed to Manfred Mann.

But Manfred Mann’s version is a blast, too. This isn’t a Pat Boone situation, where the radio was only playing watered-down versions of black songs and this one asshole got rich doing it.

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 ...

Manfred Mann had begun life as an R&B and jazz-inflected group. To that point, they'd notched U.K. hits with original tunes, including "5-4-3-2-1," but nothing on this scale.

MANFRED MANN founder Manfred Lubowitz on leaving jazz to to found the band famous for such as hits as Do Wah Diddy Diddy, 5-4-3-2-1 and Blinded By The Light ...