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GONZO WEEKLY #95: Jon meets Mick Rogers
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This week I caught up with another person with whom I have wanted to speak for many years. It was Mick Rogers, probably best known as the singer for Manfred Mann's Earth Band. He first crossed my orbit back in 1973 when their glorious single 'Joybringer' totally captivated me. I remember singing it at home whilst carrying out some menial household task in order to only have my father start ranting that “Those bloody long-haired beatniks have made a nonsense of 'I Vow to Thee my Country'” and forbade me to ever listen to it again. Both songs, of course, were adaptations of the Jupiter movement of Gustav Holst's Planet Suite. Soon after, I acquired a second-hand copy of the Solar Fire album and was a committed fan. When Mick Rogers left the Earth Band for a while in the mid-1970s, he formed another band called 'Aviator'. The two Aviator albums are now coming out on Gonzo, which gave me a perfect excuse to give him a ring Aviator were a very different band to the one in which Mick had made his name, and