''The Roaring Silence'' is the seventh studio album by English

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. It was released on 27 August 1976, by

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in the UK and by

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in the US. Like other Earth Band albums, this includes material by other composers. "

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", which reached number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, is a cover version of a song by

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; "Questions" is based on the main theme of

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's Impromptu in G flat Major (1827); "Starbird" takes its theme from

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's ballet ''

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'' (1910); and "The Road to Babylon" is based on the canon "By the Waters of Babylon" by Philip Hayes. This album marked the arrival of vocalist/guitarist Chris Hamlet Thompson, and

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who replaced longtime guitarist/vocalist/composer Mick Rogers. It is also the last album recorded with founding member

Colin Pattenden Colin Roy Pattenden (born November 1947, Farnborough, Kent, England) is an English bass guitarist, chiefly known for his membership of Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Pattenden was taught guitar but learned to play bass from tuition books, chiefly th ...

. The instrumental track "Waiter, There's a Yawn in My Ear" is based on a live recording (with studio overdubs added later). The album’s cover art is a visualization of this track’s title. Its main riff is taken from the

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track "Fish" which was recorded for their abandoned third album. It was ultimately released in 2005 on the ''

Odds & Sods – Mis-takes & Out-takes ''Odds & Sods – Mis-takes & Out-takes'' is a four-CD box set compilation album released in 2005 by ''Manfred Mann's Earth Band''. It features alternate takes, outtakes and other assorted rarities, recorded over the 35-year career of the band. ...

'' box set.

Track listing

There were two pressings of this album available in the U.S. The original, shown here, and a reissue from 1977 with a blue cover which included "Spirit In The Night", another Springsteen song which had previously been released on

Nightingales & Bombers ''Nightingales & Bombers'' is an album released in 1975 by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. "The title of this album was inspired by a recording made in Surrey, England during the Second World War, by an ornithologist intending to record nightingal ...

and was now re-recorded with Chris Thompson taking lead vocals, in between "The Road to Babylon" and "This Side of Paradise". The first CD-release (1987) of this album did not contain bonus tracks, and tracks No. 3 and No. 7 had changed places.

Personnel

The Earth Band

* Chris Hamlet Thompson – lead vocals, rhythm guitar *

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– keyboards, backing vocals, lead vocals on the final verse of “Blinded By The Light” *

– lead guitar *

– bass *

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– drums, backing vocals, percussion

Additional musicians

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– backing vocals *

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– backing vocals * Susanne Lynch – backing vocals * Mick Rogers – backing vocals * Barbara Thompson – saxophone * David Millman – string arrangements

Technical

* Manfred Mann's Earth Band –

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* Laurence Latham –

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* David Culpan, Margaret Wood, Tony Rowell, Edwin Cross – assistant engineers * Shirtsleeve Studio – design. Modelled by artist Derek Goldsmith * Martyn Goddard – photography

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References

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