The Beach Boys - without really being any of them. “It will be a mixture of everything we dig - Ornette Coleman, the Beatles, Archie Shepp, I wanted a funky rhythm section, but not an Elvin “When it came to forming the new group I realised I didn't really want to go back to jazz. Think that the music will be in the nature of a synthesis of ourselves and everything we have dug or been involved in. “But I certainly wouldn't call it a jazz-band. “It's a case of going more towards jazz,” he agreed. Will the new group mean a move back to the jazz world from which Manfred came? Myself more as a musician than a writer.” Also, for the first time in years, I'm interested in writing a few things, though think of “I felt this was the time for a fundamental change. He decides to give up being an insurance clerk - or, in my case, giving up being the son of a successful printer in South Africa to come to the UK as a musician. “I think you have to make fundamental decisions more than once in your life if you are going to achieve anything. “There I am playing the organ but what does it amount to? It's nice to be successful, of course, but what is there in it musically “It was lust a case of thinking: So I make pop records, but what is in it for me, musically.” I've played every single we have made and tried toįigure out what I've done. Inįact like pop music - these last five years have turned me into a pop fan. “I wasn't getting any more fed up with what we were doing than I have ever been. TheĬommercial world of the Pop 30 must have seemed very restricting to musicians with their jazz and academic backgrounds.īut is there any reason why the break should come at this moment of time. Rightly, or wrongly, I always got the impression they were musically slumming despite their ability to turn out a succession of massive hits. The Manfreds - or Manfred and Mike Hugg, were hardly your stereotype pop MANFRED MANN'S decision to disband his pop group and form his new Manfred Mann Chapter Three can hardly rank as the biggest surprise of the year. Bob Dawson talks to Manfred Mann about the future of Chapter Three
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