10 The Docklands, Wednesday June 8, 2011 The Docklands | interview n Manfred Mann at London Heathrow Airport in 1965 Living and breathing to make music Manfred Lubowitz (Mann) Musician n Manfred has made Greenwich his home for more than 20 years By Alistair Kleebauer tour of Europe this summer “cold-blooded” – to push Gradually growing accus-
[email protected] with the Earth Band, who Manfred Mann, as they were tomed to his new surround- formed in 1971 after his orig- by then known, towards pop ings, the pop trick paid off. It was the name on the inal group came to an end. music. Manfred Mann had their lips of all pop fans in the The keyboardist, a Green- “If I couldn’t earn a living, first hit in 1964 with 5-4-3-2-1, I hated South early 1960s, a name syn- wich resident since 1988, has I would have had to go back the theme song to Ready »onymous with number one now lived and breathed mu- and if you want to be suc- Steady Go. Africa. I hits including Doh-Wah-Did- sic for half a century, from cessful, you need to have A follow-up single – Hubble dy-Diddy and Pretty Flamin- performing Mighty Quinn on hits.” Bubble Toil And Trouble – go. Top of the Pops in 1968 to was a failure according to didn’t like But as musician Manfred practising and recording Racism Manfred (“we weren’t good Lubowitz reveals in his songs in his home studio Not that London immedi- enough songwriters”), so what it stood Greenwich home, if it had near Greenwich Park today.