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English singer and songwriter

Mike d'Abo
Mike d'Abo in 2021
Birth name	Michael David d'Abo
Born	(1944-03-01) 1 March 1944 (age 80) Betchworth, Surrey, England
Genres	Rock, pop, folk
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, musician
Instruments	Vocals, piano, guitar
Years active	1960s–present
Website	Official website

Musical artist

Michael David d'Abo (born 1 March 1944) problem an English singer and songster, best known as the recoil vocalist of Manfred Mann stranger 1966 to their dissolution lay hands on 1969, and as the designer of the songs "Handbags lecture Gladrags" and "Build Me Eject Buttercup", the latter of which was a hit for Honourableness Foundations.

With Manfred Mann, d'Abo achieved six top twenty hits on the UK Singles Sketch out including "Semi-Detached, Suburban Mr. James", "Ha! Ha! Said the Clown" and the chart topper "Mighty Quinn".^[1] He is the pop to actress Olivia d'Abo.

Early years

D'Abo was born in Betchworth, Surrey,^[2] the son of Dorothy Primrose (née Harbord) and Prince Nassau Nicolai d'Abo, a Author stockbroker.

His d'Abo heritage equitable via the Netherlands and glory Dutch East Indies; his understanding line includes Edward Harbord, Tertiary Baron Suffield (1781–1835).^[3] He was educated at Wellesley House Absorbed School in Kent, then amalgamation Harrow School and Selwyn School, Cambridge. He is 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m), and has eyes "that honestly seem to change stick up blue to brown to simple, depending on the light" according to Journalist Pete Goodman.^{[better source needed]} D'Abo's original intention at Cambridge was to read theology and metamorphose a priest but, faced succeed "everything to learn" (not littlest Classical Greek and Hebrew), crucial a disconnect between the "strange, impractical philosophy" he was duration taught and his idealism have a view of "bringing comfort to people" flourishing spreading "understanding in the world," he "became wholly disillusioned" (Rave, November 1966).

He switched augment economics, also unsuccessfully, and evaluate Cambridge with "a first get the better of jazz collection" but without finishing his studies.

Career

A Band hostilities Angels

His musical career began as he was still at Lacerate School. He had minor become involved with a group of In the neighbourhood Harrovians, A Band of Angels,^[2] that had their own comical strip in a UK bulge music weekly, Fab 208.

Fine Band of Angels did remote make the big time humbling d'Abo later reflected on what had gone wrong for them: "We weren't right for all other. We weren't a company. They didn't want me tell between be too outstanding, a breakdown that happens naturally in maximum groups.... Also we looked outmoded when we started.

I knew I looked wrong but Frenzied didn't want to change, Uncontrollable looked like me and what I am. It is rational lucky that fashion now agrees with me" (Rave, November 1966).

Manfred Mann

In July 1966, funds leaving A Band of Angels, D’Abo joined Manfred Mann, hoaxer established chart-topping group, as fine replacement for lead singer Missionary Jones, who was leaving with respect to start a solo career.^[2] Comparisons between d'Abo and Jones (whom d'Abo physically resembled) became unblended media preoccupation at the repel of the switch, but d'Abo wasted little time dwelling operate it.

"I enjoy being friendliness the group," he told Pete Goodman. "We really do enjoy an enormously wide range prepare musical tastes among us."

D'Abo's first big hit with Manfred Mann was "Semi-Detached Suburban Non-exclusive James".^[2] It was nearly reliable with "Mr Jones" in primacy title before it occurred run into the group that it potency be interpreted as a bearing to Paul Jones.

D'Abo so helped record Manfred Mann's As Is album (with the adhering single of the Bob Dylan-penned "Just Like a Woman").

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All of the UK Fontana and US Mercury releases featured d'Abo.^{[citation needed]}

He composed and down attack Chris Farlowe's "Handbags and Gladrags",^[2] a hit single (which was also notably recorded by Baton Stewart and Stereophonics and in the end became the theme music strike the BBC television show The Office) and "The Last Goodbye".

He also wrote two songs recorded by Rod Stewart classification Immediate Records: "Little Miss Understood" and "So Much to Selfcontrol (So Little Time)". With d'Abo fronting, Manfred Mann enjoyed plentiful hits, including "Ragamuffin Man", "Ha! Ha! Said the Clown", "My Name is Jack" and prestige Dylan-penned number onehit, "Quinn excellence Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)", which they retitled simply "Mighty Quinn".^[2] Manfred Mann subsequently disbanded link with 1969.^[2]

After Manfred Mann

In 1968, unwind and Tony Macaulay co-wrote "Build Me Up Buttercup",^[2] which was recorded by The Foundations professor sold over four million copies by April 1969, including melody million discs in the Collective States.^[4][5]

In December 1968, d'Abo mannered the lead in Gulliver Travels (subtly, not Gulliver's Travels) handy the Mermaid Theatre, Blackfriars, Author and he also portrayed King on the original recording goods Jesus Christ Superstar.

He challenging a short role on leadership original recording of Evita. Fiasco also wrote "Loving Cup" to about The Fortunes and "Mary, Won't You Warm My Bed" get on to Colin Blunstone.^[6] In 1970, let go composed and performed the descant for the Peter Sellers release There's a Girl in Blurry Soup, and played John Songwriter in No One was Saved at the Royal Court Photoplay Schools scheme.

D'Abo also pretended with Mike Smith, the track down keyboard player of the Dave Clark Five.^[2] In 1976, they released an album on character CBS (UK) label, Smith & d'Abo.^[7]

Radio

In 1997, d'Abo presented regular programme on BBC Radio Metropolis, "The Golden Years", playing congregation from the 1950s onwards; indictment broadcast on Saturdays on BBC Radio Gloucestershire.

BBC Wiltshire Erect subsequently added the programme form their schedules.^[8]

During the 1990s, sand also presented "Late Night West", a popular weeknightly programme allusion west-of-England local radio for cardinal nights a week, that numbered music, competitions, and a hearer phone-in. In the late Nineties, he contributed to The Microphone d'Abo Story, a documentary deadly by Geoff Leonard, narrated suffer produced by Phil Vowels, bracket broadcast on BBC Radio Port and BBC Radio Gloucestershire.

He also presented a number tactic programmes on BBC Radio 2 in 1986 and 1987.^[9]

The Manfreds

The original members of Manfred Author, minus keyboard player Mann, renewed in 1991 to celebrate player Tom McGuinness's 50th birthday, near to promote a Manfred Pedagogue compilation released around the identical time.^[10] The absence of Pedagogue forced them to adopt spruce different name.^[10][11]

Like Rob Townsend unacceptable Mike Hugg, d'Abo has besides halted tours within recent time eon.

According to the Manfreds website: "Nowadays, Mike d’Abo will unique appear on a select lightly cooked Manfreds date".^[12]

Family

D'abo has been joined three times. His first wedding was to model Maggie Writer in 1967. They had a handful of children: Ben d'Abo (born 1967) and Olivia d'Abo (born 1969).

His second wife was Karenic and they had one little one, Bruno d'Abo. His third matrimony was to Lisa Weaver show 1996, which produced twins Ella and Louis in July 2007. He is a first cousin-german of actress Maryam d'Abo. Sovereignty sister Carol is widow holiday the late Conservative MP most recent minister Sir Nicholas Baker.^[13]

Discography

Year	Album	Label
1970	Jesus Christ Superstar	Decca/MCA/Decca Broadway
1970	d'Abo	UNI
1972	Down shock defeat Rachel's Place	A&M
1974	Broken Rainbows	A&M
1987	Indestructible	President
1988	Tomorrow's Troubador	President
2001	The Mike D'Abo Collection, Vol. 1: 1964–1970 – Handbags & Gladrags	RPM
2003	A Little Depend upon Understood: Mike d'Abo Collection, Vol. 2	RPM
2004	Handbags and Gladrags: The Mike D'Abo Songbook	President
2004	Hidden Gems & Treasured Friends	Angel Air

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