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Maximum Darkness(Live Album)
''Maximum Darkness'' is the tenth album by the Welsh rock band Man and was released on the United Artists Records label September 1975. It was the second live album released by the band, excluding contributions to two "various artists" live albums, and featured John Cipollina as special guest. Rumours that Micky Jones had to over-dub Cipollina’s guitar, as it was out of tune, before the album could be released, are greatly exaggerated. Only one track, "Bananas", had to have his playing removed/replaced, per Deke Leonard: "Everything ... which sounds like Cipollina is Cipollina." The album spent two weeks in the UK album chart, peaking at No 25.Chart Stats for Man Albums
Retrieved 14 August 2009. It was the band's last release on United Artists, before moving to

Man (band)
Man (also known as The Manband) are a Welsh rock music, rock band. The group were formed in November 1968 by Micky Jones (guitar and vocals), Deke Leonard (guitar and vocals), Clive John (guitar, keyboards and vocals), Ray Williams (bass guitar) and Jeff Jones (drums), in Merthyr Tydfil, out of previous local band The Bystanders. They were active through to 1976 with an ever-changing personnel, the last line-up consisting of Jones and Leonard with John McKenzie (musician), John McKenzie (bass), Terry Williams (drummer), Terry Williams (drums) and Phil Ryan (musician), Phil Ryan (keyboards). Amongst others, Martin Ace (guitar and bass) had a significant spell with group. They released nine studio albums, including the UK Albums Chart, UK charting albums ''Back into the Future'' (#23), ''Rhinos, Winos and Lunatics'' (#24) and the live album ''Maximum Darkness'' (#25). Their musical style is rock music, rock encompassing elements of psychedelic rock, psychedelia and progressive rock ...
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Terry Williams (drummer)
Terrence Williams (born 11 January 1948) is a retired Welsh rock drummer. During the 1970s and early 1980s Williams was drummer with Dave Edmunds / Rockpile and Man. Rockpile split in 1981 and Williams joined Dire Straits from 1982 until 1988. Williams was born in Swansea. During the 1960s, he played in a number of Welsh bands, including Commancheros, the Smokeless Zone, Dream and Plum Crazy, before joining Dave Edmunds' band Love Sculpture. In 1970 he joined the Welsh rock group Man, which included two former Dream and Smokeless Zone members, Deke Leonard and Martin Ace. Between 1981 and 1982, Williams was part of the Neverland Express band, backing Meat Loaf. In June 1982 Williams joined Dire Straits as the replacement for drummer Pick Withers, shortly after the release of their fourth studio album '' Love Over Gold''. Williams played with them for the first time on the 1983 EP titled '' ExtendedancEPlay'' (featuring the hit single "Twisting by the Pool") and on the 1982â ...
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Anne Leonard Bredon (born Anne Loeb; September 7, 1930 – November 9, 2019) was an American folk singer, best known for composing the song " Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" while she was a student at University of California, Berkeley in the late 1950s. Bredon was the daughter of physicist Leonard Benedict Loeb and granddaughter of physiologist Jacques Loeb. She majored in art at Humboldt State University and completed her master's degree in mathematics at Berkeley, California.Melissa TavEmbracing life one bead at a time, ''Madera Tribune'', January 22, 2007. Sometime around 1960, while attending Berkeley, Bredon appeared on a live folk-music radio show, ''The Midnight Special'', on radio station KPFA singing "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You".Janet Smith, ''The 'Babe I'm Gonna Leave You' Story,'' in ''The Gate at the End of the World: A Collection of Songs by Anne Bredon'' (Bella Roma Music, 1991), pp. vii-x. Janet Smith, another folk singer, developed her own version of the song and performed ...
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