Marc Mann
{{Short description|American musician}}
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Marc Mann is an American keyboardist, guitarist, programmer, arranger and conductor. He has a Master's Degree in Music from UCLA. Mann is known for his work with Oingo Boingo, Jeff Lynne and the Electric Light Orchestra.
Mann is credited as performer, arranger or producer on 54 albums. He is a long-time collaborator with Danny Elfman in such films as the Men in Black series, Mars Attacks!, Sleepy Hollow, plus many more. He is usually credited for MIDI supervision and some orchestrations. On stage he is recognisable because he usually wears a cap.{{Citation needed|date=January 2022}}
Selected work
Mann was supposed to play with the Electric Light Orchestra on their tour for the promotion of their album Zoom, but the tour was cancelled.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Mann played keyboards for Oingo Boingo (another collaboration with Elfman) from 1994 to 1995 and performed on their final live album and video release Live from the Universal Amphitheatre.{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/Marc+Mann |title=Marc Mann discography at Discogs |publisher=Discogs |access-date=30 June 2013}}
In January 1994, Mann was hired by Lynne to help clean a few of John Lennon's cassettes, that the remaining Beatles Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr had finished with, and turned a few songs into Beatles songs.{{cite book|last=Everett |first=Walter |title=The Beatles As Musicians: Revolver Through the Anthology |year=1999 |publisher=Oxford University Press |edition=illustrated |isbn=9780195129410 |pages=286–287}}
In 2002, Mann made string arrangements for several songs on Harrison's posthumous Brainwashed album.{{cite book|last=Leng |first=Simon |title=While My Guitar Gently Weeps: The Music of George Harrison |year=2006 |publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation |edition=reprint |isbn=9781423406099 |page=293}} On 29 November 2002, Mann performed in the "Concert for George", alongside Eric Clapton, Jeff Lynne, Billy Preston, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney and many others,{{cite web |url=http://concertforgeorge.com/performers/ |title=Concert for George |publisher=Concert for George |access-date=30 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130707035917/http://concertforgeorge.com/performers/ |archive-date=7 July 2013 |url-status=dead }} playing Harrison's parts. In 2004, Mann played lead guitar along with Prince when Harrison was inducted posthumously into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps."{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/arts/music/prince-guitar-rock-hall-of-fame.html|work=New York Times|title=The Day Prince's Guitar Wept the Loudest|first1=Finn|last1=Cohen|date=April 28, 2016}}
Since then, Mann has continued his collaboration with Lynne and Elfman, being credited for involvement in films such as Frankenweenie and Mr. Peabody & Sherman,[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0542869/ Marc Mann on IMDB] as well as providing support for bands like Thenewno2.
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External links
- [http://www.allmusic.com/artist/marc-mann-mn0001019739 Marc Mann credits on Allmusic.com]
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Category:20th-century American keyboardists
Category:American male guitarists
Category:American male conductors (music)
Category:21st-century American conductors (music)
Category:21st-century American male musicians