While Clarkin's comment was unfortunate, we don't know what caused the fallout between the former bandmates. While who's the superior keyboard player is a question one should steer clear of, there's no denying that Rick is brilliant (his influence on Magnum's new sound on LotRtE proves that). Clarkin should not have made this comment, but I'd be cautious in portraying Mark as a perfect victim (he left the band in the middle of a tour and has claimed in interviews that he was unfairly treated by Clarkin back in the 80's). Let's just enjoy the music and refrain from picking sides, we don't know the whole story and probably never will. And to all the people who wrote that Clarkin should retire; the last album achieved the highest chart since Goodnight L.A., and each new album scores higher than the previous one. I bet the next one will break the Top 10 mark, and I can't wait!
Sure, we don't know what happened behind the scenes and we will probably never know the whole story - but when a musician feels forced to leave during a tour there's doubtless a more than valid reason behind such a difficult decision. But what we know for sure is that one side has maintained a dignified silence since the split whereas the other side seemingly deems it necessary to drop low level remarks at every possible opportunity. And these unnecessary and offensive comments are what people are reacting on. Nobody is turning anyone into a victim - what's a perfect victim anyways and do you have any proof for what you yourselves claim to know? Music does matter as long as everyone involved is displaying some decency and integrity but vanishes into oblivion once the main actors are forgetting their manners. And the one week the latest album charted is probably only due to the admittedly clever marketing coup of including Tobi Sammet on the album. Musically Magnum had reached their peak with Shadow Garden. Including some pseudo Purple keyboards, endless horrible Yeah Yeah passages and lots of offensive lyrics does for sure not improve the quality of the latest output and does not exactly kindle interest in any eventual ones still to come.
Top band Magnum. Shame Tony can’t just thank and acknowledge the wonderful playing of past members and say he fell out with them. It’s a common thing for band leaders to trash the past to justify the present. Even if he really thinks that Rick is amazing and ‘better’ than Mark....no need to say that. Bob at least says the new boys bring freshness and energy without slagging the old gang off. Oh well. My favourite period of Magnum was with Richard Bailey on keys....brilliant.
I agree. Tony obviously doesn't have a good word to say about Mark, whereas Mark has kept silent and not sunk to bad-mouthing his former colleagues. At least have the grace to be pleasant about former bandmates.
Magnum has ceased to be Magnum with Mark Stanway leaving. It really is a pity they did not show him more respect. With Bob's voice diminishing and the typical Magnum keyboard sounds absent I can't wait for Mark's new band Kingdom Of Madness with its superior Crème de la Crème lineup to revive the old, always neglected, classics and to let them shine in new never known splendour with passion and brilliance.
Complete nonsense. Are you mark Stanway´s nephew or..?! :-D The CORE and HEART of Magnum is and always has been Tony and Bob. Mark is fine and all that, but replaceable. And even though Bob´s voice is no longer at the top of the game it still carries the spirit and the warmth..the soul!
Not related I am afraid. But if Tony and Bob are the heart of Magnum then Magnum currently suffers some severe heart condition if not a heart attack. Arrogance and callousness have rarely been seen so repulsive. Warmth and soul seemingly have gone down the drain. Not surprising Mark saw himself forced to call it a day. The latest outputs have clearly proven how essential Mark used to be for Magnum. They are completely missing Mark’s brilliant bombastic keyboard sounds only to have them replaced with some nice but unsubstantial lift music piano trying but failing to sound like Purple and which tends to get drowned out by the far too prominent guitar sound anyway. Magnum is currently burying Melodic Rock but Kingdom Of Madness keeps it alive.
@@nobbie3757 Well, all kinds of art and creative output has its origin in the vast ocean of human emotions and arrogance, anger, disappointment etc are ALSO among those..it´s not only love and pink little ponies. The most beautiful art comes from the darkest corners of the human soul and mind. If I were Tony I too would have been a little provoked by Mark simply because he goes a bit overboard with certain things.. When that is said - from the clips I have heard of "Kingdom of Madness" it´s a bit disappointing. And the setlist?!?! WTF? If they want to dig deep into the goldmine of Magnum-songs, why is the setlist then so uninspired? I would have loved to hear some awesome cover-tunes from them..but it´s really not that interesting (in my humble opinion)
@@golgatanian Haven’t heard any provoking statements from Mark’s side. Something that for sure cannot be said about Bob and Tony. Or at least about Tony cause Bob doesn’t really display any opinion of his own but simply shadows Tony. I very much like the Kingdom Of Madness setlist, though I agree there’s one or two songs I would maybe have exchanged with others. But the KOM versions are brilliant and have - coming back to your original comment - so much more heart and soul in their very own interpretation than the pimped up ever repetitive stuff that current Magnum does deliver. And KOM style songs are as far from cover tunes as you could ever imagine. I'd also assume that they will for sure have many variations in their set list in the years to come.
Why don't we let Mr Clarkin contradict his statement himself? Taken from Mr. Clarkin's very own words on the Another Chapter Another Verse documentary 2005: "WHEN MARK CAME INTO THE BAND IT STARTED TO FEEL MORE LIKE A REAL BAND. IT FELT LIKE THE BAND WAS ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING PRETTY GOOD BACK THEN. WE SORT OF WE ACTUALLY STARTED TO SELL RECORDS". So seemingly Mark was a superior enough musician to boost Mr. Clarkin's record sales all these years. What a shabby way to repay that favour only a couple of years later. Seems Mr. Clarkin is forgetting his manners. No surprise that so many of the decent fans have lost all respect for the band.
ive been into magnum since the days of chase the dragon. i loved their music, tonys song writing was brilliant, bobs vocals superb and the flourish of mark stanways keyboards added the flare and signature sound. however, for me the integrity, and attitude of a band is very important to me. the music pails into insignificance when i believe that there are under handed goings on within a band. when songs become personal and vindictive and band members take pleasure in having a swipe at former band members. all the good work magnum have done in the past is now history for me. i honestly cant listen to a band that has values that this band does. yes they have some brilliant material, but none of it will ever be played by me again. all i can think of is the injustice in this situation. not the quality of the music. and in all honesty the quality has been very inconsistent over the last few albums. the other thing that annoys me about magnum and its fans is peddling out the same old stuff on stage for bob to croak his way through it. you try telling a die hard magnum fan that bobs voice went five or more years ago and they set the wolves on you. yet magnum continue to line their pockets with sub standard stage shows because blinkered fans still buy the tickets. in finishing, i cannot believe a man of tony clarkins obvious intelligence can stoop to a child like behaviour he displays in this interview and the lyrics he wrote in one of his recent songs. pity because the album is good. but i cant listen any longer. thats me done
john whitfield Well said John it is really disgusting I agree with all you have said Magnum were a really brilliant unique band but they have completely lost the plot and should have retired long ago.
Well said, though I would disagree on the quality of the latest album. Not only because of the crappy lyrics, to bitch on a former band member is an absolute no-go, but also because of the missing musical quality. Magnum have reached their post reunion peak with EFTSG, both SBDL and LOTRTE are sub-standard in comparison with their former albums.
Some guys on these reviews are so freaking negative!!!!!!! what is your problem/ These men are almost 70 and keep rocking!!!!! and still creating great music!!!!!!!
They should keep rocking without offending other people. Then they would most probably receive less negative comments. If they conduct such disrespectful interviews like this one they do deserve each and every negative comment. In fact they have provoked them.
Aeonblade10 If Tony wouldn't be bitching about Mark in first instance people wouldn't react so negatively to his low level comments. If Bob and Tony would conduct decent interviews they would get decent reactions. As simple as that...
Mr. Clarkin really does need to grow up, his lack of tact is embarrassing. I was never going to take sides over the situation until he, and others showed their true colours. Magnum is a done deal for me now, never again, sadly..
Media Agentinnen The spiteful way they both slag off mark Stanway by saying the new abba tribute keyboard man is superior to Mr Stanway who they suffered playing for them for over 30 years.
Who the fuck cares about some random keyboard player who thinks he´s a star?! (no harm meant, Mark is ok) But... Bob and Tony are the HEART and CORE of Magnum, no more no less. They have every right to be annoyed. Let the music speak.
How bloody disgusting to say that! And then to smirk at each other afterwards... Your supposed to be in your 70s not 10 and 12 years old...give it up! And get on with it..I've loved magnum for a very long time and I still love magnum even with Mark not being in the band anymore, but for god sakes what makes you think your special enough to say shitty things about Mark. Your all great musicians! But you two act like children. And if you've moved on! Why you continuing to slate Mark? Grow up!!!!!!
They seem a bit ‘edgy’. Did they not get the age thing comment or were they just being a bit awkward? Regardless, I still love Magnum. I don’t know the history behind the keyboardist leaving but there’s clearly no love lost judging by this interview.
Magnum, what an outfit. Another fantastic band from Birmingham, must be summat in the water up there. Where in the hell does Tony keep finding the lyrics? Great band, may they carry on for years
I know very well what it's about to play keyboards. Also I know that Mark Stanway have a lot of respect among other musicians in the music business. Don't you think it's nasty of Mr Clarkin to say "..far superior musician to Mark Stanway"? Please, think before you say "who has no idea what's he's talking about..". You went on the same, low level with that comment like Mr Clarkin said against Mark
Magnum are clearly not fit for any purpose anymore,you just have to listen to the latest releases a couple of half decent tracks and the rest fillers pure rubbish.they obviously have to release these terrible sub standard records to continue playing dingy club tours in Europe,they are a mere shadow of there former selves and should just do the nostalgia tour and quit,it's all rather embarrassing just like this ridiculous interview.
wally slowe its fantastic they made the top 10 in a Germany and Switzerland and number 15 in the UK,their 3rd highest charting album ever here,plus sold out the 1100 capacity Birmingham town Hall which meant it was upgraded to the fantastic Symphony Hall I'm sure you would agree!
While Clarkin's comment was unfortunate, we don't know what caused the fallout between the former bandmates. While who's the superior keyboard player is a question one should steer clear of, there's no denying that Rick is brilliant (his influence on Magnum's new sound on LotRtE proves that). Clarkin should not have made this comment, but I'd be cautious in portraying Mark as a perfect victim (he left the band in the middle of a tour and has claimed in interviews that he was unfairly treated by Clarkin back in the 80's). Let's just enjoy the music and refrain from picking sides, we don't know the whole story and probably never will. And to all the people who wrote that Clarkin should retire; the last album achieved the highest chart since Goodnight L.A., and each new album scores higher than the previous one. I bet the next one will break the Top 10 mark, and I can't wait!
Sure, we don't know what happened behind the scenes and we will probably never know the whole story - but when a musician feels forced to leave during a tour there's doubtless a more than valid reason behind such a difficult decision. But what we know for sure is that one side has maintained a dignified silence since the split whereas the other side seemingly deems it necessary to drop low level remarks at every possible opportunity. And these unnecessary and offensive comments are what people are reacting on. Nobody is turning anyone into a victim - what's a perfect victim anyways and do you have any proof for what you yourselves claim to know? Music does matter as long as everyone involved is displaying some decency and integrity but vanishes into oblivion once the main actors are forgetting their manners. And the one week the latest album charted is probably only due to the admittedly clever marketing coup of including Tobi Sammet on the album. Musically Magnum had reached their peak with Shadow Garden. Including some pseudo Purple keyboards, endless horrible Yeah Yeah passages and lots of offensive lyrics does for sure not improve the quality of the latest output and does not exactly kindle interest in any eventual ones still to come.
Top band Magnum. Shame Tony can’t just thank and acknowledge the wonderful playing of past members and say he fell out with them. It’s a common thing for band leaders to trash the past to justify the present. Even if he really thinks that Rick is amazing and ‘better’ than Mark....no need to say that. Bob at least says the new boys bring freshness and energy without slagging the old gang off. Oh well. My favourite period of Magnum was with Richard Bailey on keys....brilliant.
I agree. Tony obviously doesn't have a good word to say about Mark, whereas Mark has kept silent and not sunk to bad-mouthing his former colleagues. At least have the grace to be pleasant about former bandmates.
Tony Clarkin looks like Darth Vader with his helmet removed
That's brilliant LMFAO
Magnum has ceased to be Magnum with Mark Stanway leaving. It really is a pity they did not show him more respect. With Bob's voice diminishing and the typical Magnum keyboard sounds absent I can't wait for Mark's new band Kingdom Of Madness with its superior Crème de la Crème lineup to revive the old, always neglected, classics and to let them shine in new never known splendour with passion and brilliance.
Complete nonsense. Are you mark Stanway´s nephew or..?! :-D The CORE and HEART of Magnum is and always has been Tony and Bob. Mark is fine and all that, but replaceable. And even though Bob´s voice is no longer at the top of the game it still carries the spirit and the warmth..the soul!
Not related I am afraid. But if Tony and Bob are the heart of Magnum then Magnum currently suffers some severe heart condition if not a heart attack. Arrogance and callousness have rarely been seen so repulsive. Warmth and soul seemingly have gone down the drain. Not surprising Mark saw himself forced to call it a day. The latest outputs have clearly proven how essential Mark used to be for Magnum. They are completely missing Mark’s brilliant bombastic keyboard sounds only to have them replaced with some nice but unsubstantial lift music piano trying but failing to sound like Purple and which tends to get drowned out by the far too prominent guitar sound anyway. Magnum is currently burying Melodic Rock but Kingdom Of Madness keeps it alive.
@@nobbie3757 Well, all kinds of art and creative output has its origin in the vast ocean of human emotions and arrogance, anger, disappointment etc are ALSO among those..it´s not only love and pink little ponies. The most beautiful art comes from the darkest corners of the human soul and mind. If I were Tony I too would have been a little provoked by Mark simply because he goes a bit overboard with certain things..
When that is said - from the clips I have heard of "Kingdom of Madness" it´s a bit disappointing. And the setlist?!?! WTF? If they want to dig deep into the goldmine of Magnum-songs, why is the setlist then so uninspired? I would have loved to hear some awesome cover-tunes from them..but it´s really not that interesting (in my humble opinion)
@@golgatanian Haven’t heard any provoking statements from Mark’s side. Something that for sure cannot be said about Bob and Tony. Or at least about Tony cause Bob doesn’t really display any opinion of his own but simply shadows Tony. I very much like the Kingdom Of Madness setlist, though I agree there’s one or two songs I would maybe have exchanged with others. But the KOM versions are brilliant and have - coming back to your original comment - so much more heart and soul in their very own interpretation than the pimped up ever repetitive stuff that current Magnum does deliver. And KOM style songs are as far from cover tunes as you could ever imagine. I'd also assume that they will for sure have many variations in their set list in the years to come.
@@golgatanian ahhh the spirit see what you did there 😄😄😄😄😄
Why don't we let Mr Clarkin contradict his statement himself? Taken from Mr. Clarkin's very own words on the Another Chapter Another Verse documentary 2005: "WHEN MARK CAME INTO THE BAND IT STARTED TO FEEL MORE LIKE A REAL BAND. IT FELT LIKE THE BAND WAS ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING PRETTY GOOD BACK THEN. WE SORT OF WE ACTUALLY STARTED TO SELL RECORDS". So seemingly Mark was a superior enough musician to boost Mr. Clarkin's record sales all these years. What a shabby way to repay that favour only a couple of years later. Seems Mr. Clarkin is forgetting his manners. No surprise that so many of the decent fans have lost all respect for the band.
Stargazer Lass - Well spotted. Seems there's not much store to be set by Tony's slandering comments.
These two old boys should be in a home,cranky old wasters.
ive been into magnum since the days of chase the dragon. i loved their music, tonys song writing was brilliant, bobs vocals superb and the flourish of mark stanways keyboards added the flare and signature sound. however, for me the integrity, and attitude of a band is very important to me. the music pails into insignificance when i believe that there are under handed goings on within a band. when songs become personal and vindictive and band members take pleasure in having a swipe at former band members. all the good work magnum have done in the past is now history for me. i honestly cant listen to a band that has values that this band does. yes they have some brilliant material, but none of it will ever be played by me again. all i can think of is the injustice in this situation. not the quality of the music. and in all honesty the quality has been very inconsistent over the last few albums. the other thing that annoys me about magnum and its fans is peddling out the same old stuff on stage for bob to croak his way through it. you try telling a die hard magnum fan that bobs voice went five or more years ago and they set the wolves on you. yet magnum continue to line their pockets with sub standard stage shows because blinkered fans still buy the tickets. in finishing, i cannot believe a man of tony clarkins obvious intelligence can stoop to a child like behaviour he displays in this interview and the lyrics he wrote in one of his recent songs. pity because the album is good. but i cant listen any longer. thats me done
john whitfield
Well said John it is really disgusting I agree with all you have said Magnum were a really brilliant unique band but they have completely lost the plot and should have retired long ago.
Well said, though I would disagree on the quality of the latest album. Not only because of the crappy lyrics, to bitch on a former band member is an absolute no-go, but also because of the missing musical quality. Magnum have reached their post reunion peak with EFTSG, both SBDL and LOTRTE are sub-standard in comparison with their former albums.
Totally agree. What song are you talking about?
Stephen Motson
Maybe it's ya wanna be someone
Some guys on these reviews are so freaking negative!!!!!!! what is your problem/ These men are almost 70 and keep rocking!!!!! and still creating great music!!!!!!!
They should keep rocking without offending other people. Then they would most probably receive less negative comments. If they conduct such disrespectful interviews like this one they do deserve each and every negative comment. In fact they have provoked them.
Did Mark Stanway create a bunch of sockpuppet accounts just to bitch about Tony in the comment section?
Aeonblade10 If Tony wouldn't be bitching about Mark in first instance people wouldn't react so negatively to his low level comments. If Bob and Tony would conduct decent interviews they would get decent reactions. As simple as that...
Aeonblade - that's a good one! :-)
Mr. Clarkin really does need to grow up, his lack of tact is embarrassing. I was never going to take sides over the situation until he, and others showed their true colours. Magnum is a done deal for me now, never again, sadly..
Come on, don't be such a drama queen. Just enjoy the music. It's fantastic and you know it.
Hi bitch. The interviewer was terrible. Thats why he is "out of tact". Listen how terrible it sounds man!
@@frodegroven yaaaawn... you'll have to do better than that to get to me, yer big fanny..
Some things are of their time and settle with more time. My favourite is Need a lot of Love and love all the other songs to.
Hey Magnum fans who critisize, can you explain what happend in this interview that make you so angry? Thanks
Media Agentinnen
The spiteful way they both slag off mark Stanway by saying the new abba tribute keyboard man is superior to Mr Stanway who they suffered playing for them for over 30 years.
R I P Tony
Legend.
Chase the dragon is in my top 20 albums of all time
Who the fuck cares about some random keyboard player who thinks he´s a star?! (no harm meant, Mark is ok) But...
Bob and Tony are the HEART and CORE of Magnum, no more no less. They have every right to be annoyed. Let the music speak.
8 "likes", 15 "dislikes" of this video posted by "rock bottom". Should get the message across on SO many levels.
"rock bottom", indeed...😣.
What a disgusting pair of gossips. Whatever has happened to Magnum to make them sink so low?
How bloody disgusting to say that! And then to smirk at each other afterwards...
Your supposed to be in your 70s not 10 and 12 years old...give it up!
And get on with it..I've loved magnum for a very long time and I still love magnum even with Mark not being in the band anymore, but for god sakes what makes you think your special enough to say shitty things about Mark. Your all great musicians! But you two act like children. And if you've moved on! Why you continuing to slate Mark? Grow up!!!!!!
What language is the interviewer speaking?????
German English! ;-)
Great interview . Love the get out at the end. 😎
Have lost all my support for this band after that hateful interview. Rick superior to Mark? On what planet?
just enjoy the music.
Such a Germanic interview too. Even the joke gets lost on the boys. I felt a bit sorry for the interviewer.
They seem a bit ‘edgy’. Did they not get the age thing comment or were they just being a bit awkward? Regardless, I still love Magnum. I don’t know the history behind the keyboardist leaving but there’s clearly no love lost judging by this interview.
Magnum, what an outfit. Another fantastic band from Birmingham, must be summat in the water up there. Where in the hell does Tony keep finding the lyrics? Great band, may they carry on for years
Rick Benton is best known for playing in an mediocre Abba cover band... I have lost all my respect to those old, bitter men :-/
Mediocre? They're not mediocre and Rick is a superb player whose skills are underrated
Whatever...
Kenneth Nordin typical reply from someone who has no idea what he's talking about.
I know very well what it's about to play keyboards. Also I know that Mark Stanway have a lot of respect among other musicians in the music business. Don't you think it's nasty of Mr Clarkin to say "..far superior musician to Mark Stanway"? Please, think before you say "who has no idea what's he's talking about..". You went on the same, low level with that comment like Mr Clarkin said against Mark
Right! I bow to your superior knowledge! LOL
Magnum are clearly not fit for any purpose anymore,you just have to listen to the latest releases a couple of half decent tracks and the rest fillers pure rubbish.they obviously have to release these terrible sub standard records to continue playing dingy club tours in Europe,they are a mere shadow of there former selves and should just do the nostalgia tour and quit,it's all rather embarrassing just like this ridiculous interview.
wally slowe its fantastic they made the top 10 in a Germany and Switzerland and number 15 in the UK,their 3rd highest charting album ever here,plus sold out the 1100 capacity Birmingham town Hall which meant it was upgraded to the fantastic Symphony Hall I'm sure you would agree!