The Man Home Page

at Room 101 

Under Construction

The discography below by links to individual pages for each album with Covers, Track Listings, the Original Liner Notes, including Deke's when available, and a short Commentary on each album. Thought this would be a simple project but as I was wrapping up creating pages for every Man album I had Point Records was formed and immediatly released 13 more albums, so I had to go back and update all the pages.  Also, Castle Communications and others have found new and interesting ways of repackaging the two Pye albums.  Friends have been sending me information about albums I never knew existed.  So if things are a little behind at this time, I hope to get it updated as soon as possible (I'm looking forward to knee surgery to give me a couple of weeks to catch up on my web pages).  However, if  you know any information I don't have which should have, follow the link at the bottom of this page to e-mail me directly.

Some of the images and liner notes include copyrighted material of the band and their many record labels and are currently being used without permission and probably beyond the bounderies of fair use. "It's easier to apologize afterwards than to ask permission beforehand" --G. Keilor.

We hope that those involved will accept this practice in the the interest of the free exchange of ideas (or advertising). So if you're one of those being used and would rather not be let me know and I'll take them off. You don't have to send lawyers from PRT, EMI, Firefly, Griffin Music, Garrison or Deke to break my kneecaps. I can be very reasonable when threatened.

The "Grapes" review originally submited to Firefly

Welsh group, very much influenced by the San Francisco guitar bands of the Early Seventies especially Quicksilver. Started out as a pop/psychedelic band in 68. Developed a multiple guitar sound in the early 70's after moving to United Artists. Many personel changes over the years with Mickey Jones on guitar, and Terry Williams on drums most of the time. Deke Leonard on lead guitar when he wasn't being kicked out-- this happened twice). Martin Ace, Tweke Lewis, John Cippolina, and Malcolm Morely have been members. Recently reformed and still great.

Other great Man resources on the WWW (also Under Construction) are:

The Man Band Home Page  Set up by Tim Whitcombe in the UK.

Northdown Publishing is a small British publisher who publish Deke's books and a number of other publications about some of the not-so-famous English bands and artists of the 60's, 70's and 80's.  They also publish The Welsh Connection Michael Heatley's bimonthly newsletter.

Joan Gonzalez has set up a Man Page in Barcelona in English mostly with lots of recent pictures of the band and rare singles (many of which I would give my eye teeth for).

The Man Desktop Theme for Windows 95™ Plus™
by Chris Daniells. Comes complete with Background files from "Slow Motion" and "Welsh Connection" and an assortment of Sound Clips to associate with Windows happenings. Some assembly required.

Georgie's Home Page for MAN -- The Welsh Connection  Is a new page out of Germany.

Be Good To Yourself At Least Once A Day    Is another page out of Germany, this time mostly in Germany.

The Manband Archive is a new page set up by Julian Gough with a very complete discography and history of the band, and shameless use of frames, animated gifs, and those java script special effects, which make my page look like a Hong Kong new kiosk by comparison.  Guess software engineers must have a lot of free time on their hands.

The Manband Mailing List  has just been set up at a commercial site.  Julian and Geordie are there and it's a good place to get news of new and upcoming releases.

There is a movement afoot (or more exactly on-line) to produce and release a Man Tribute Album.  Pete Gifford is organizing it, and you can read all the details through his web page.
 

The Man Discography

Based in large part on my own collection, supplemented wherever possible with information from Rock Record, Pete Tuck's discography from The Welsh Connection, and inserts and catalogs from Repertoire Records and the Japanese release of "Rhinos". All are LP's except where designated (cd). All CD's are UK unless otherwise noted. Other European releases are noted when the Catalog number or packaging is known to differ from the UK release.

The Pye Years


The Liberty/United Artist Years

The MCA Years

The Wilderness Years (Independent Releases and Legit Live Albums)

Formerly Bootlegs (now Legit Reissues on POINT where noted)

Compilations

Man Family and Friends

Deke Leonard

1997 Rhinos, Winos and Lunitics: The Legend of Man, a Rock 'n Roll Band
         (book)  You've Read the Liner Notes, now Read about the Book!

Help Yourself (The Most Boring Band in the World)

"Because it's always polite to appear as if you appreciate the input of others"
. . .Bob's E-Mail Address is: bangilly@gsd.harvard.edu
Thanks to all who have sent me their comments so far, more stuff to come. 

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