We've lost two from the uriah heep family in 2021 drummer Lee kerslake and organist and guitar Ken Hensley about 6 months apart if I remember right I'm 71 and still listen to heep every day.
The best way to discribe Uriah Heep is prog metal, they, especially early, showed a great range of styles while having their own sound. They, at least through the seventies, were a musicians band. They have formed my musical taste, I love almost all types of music as long as it's played well and with respect for music itself.
I agree. Lance. Very 'eavy very 'umble was my very first album to buy. Great stuff and although they sometimes are under my rader I'll never forget them especially with David on lyrics. And this? This is a masterpiece!
I've always loved this song! Greatly underrated and it's surprising how few have heard it! I also love the way the guitarist precedes each solo with a quick note that sounds like pulling the bolt back on a machine gun, in the right headset....it's like he's saying, "okay....stand the f*ck by!".
Uriah Heep is one of the big bands that did not get enough credit i would put them up there as the foundation of Heavy Metal along with Purple and Sabbath
Couple of things. They used a full orchestra to accompany them in the production, namely John Fiddy brass & woodwind arrangements. It’s about a man who has fell out of love with his girl as she wanted someone else (it says that in the song) and he vows to get her back. Lastly and rather amusing it’s not a woman screaming it’s the legendary David Byron who was well knows for his falsetto. Thanks
1970 keyboard ken hensley wrote most of song ken quit the band 1980 . solo artist composer played with blackfoot 2 or three albums. died 2020 one month before the release of new album. he was 75. in october of 1972 15 years old i put my head between 2 speakers and listened to salisbury. hooked on uriah heep ever since. the band is writing their 27th studio. mick box guitar last of the greats of u.h. celebrating 51 years of his band. member changes of course. go straight to their living the dream album and you will appreciate the heaviness. you are now a uriah heep fan. dont fight it
One of my favourite U.H. compositions. Extraordinary Mick Box guitar solo, chorus and orchestra arrangements. I love listening this composition again and again. Thank you very much! Best wishes from Russia!
MY WORDS, MATE ~ AND I GUESS IT WAS A TRICK BY THE ENGLISH ROCK PRESS ~ TO BRING THEM DOWN - FOR RISING 'EM UP / A N D I T W O R K E D ❤🎉😊!!!!!!! BERNIE GERMANY 😊
They were so good. Some of their new stuff is pretty awesome too. David Byron is one amazing singer. My favorite of all time. The song High Priestess from this album is wall to wall guitar bombast. Ken Hensley, who played umpteen different instruments, arranged this. He sadly passed away recently. He had a band called Live Fire that had some really good music. My favorite Heep song is probably The Pilgrim. It’s more metal and very epic. Their magnum opus might be Paradise The Spell.
Glad you enjoyed and appreciated it. 98% of their songs are 6 minutes or less. I think just 2 others are over 7 minutes - “July Morning” and “Magician’s Birthday”. As far as the lyrics and their meaning… Bottom line is that I don’t know. But it may have been, just from knowing this time period In music that the scream wasn’t related to anything having to do with his relationship with that woman but was rather just sort of a musical fashion of the times, to end things with a big flourish, a scream. After all, deep purple’s “ Child in time“ had just been released about a year earlier with all those screams during and at the end. So it may have just denoted the agony he felt about not having his relationship with her go as he wished. No one else will mention these but some of my favorites, interesting ones by them are “Beautiful Dream”; “The Park”; “Footprints in the Snow“. The most famous are “Easy Livin’” and “Stealin’”. “Time to Live” and “Look at Yourself “ are a couple of good heavier numbers they did.
Cannot believe he has not heard of the British band Uriah Heep who are legends and one of the best if not the best progressive metal band of the 1970's.
Uriah Heep IS, in a way, the name of a guy; it comes from a Charles Dickens character! These guys had some of the first great album cover art and artists in that classic heavy metal style, you should check them out! And Ken Hensley, the organ player in the group, was the composer for this track. It's definitely a little more "epic" in scope than most of their work, title track from their second album
Hi Tommy, this was different to a lot of heep stuff...but a lot of heep fan's still like it, it was experimental album for heep, there 2nd album..there heaviest album was look at yourself..there 3rd album...there 4th and 5th album's. Demon's and wizard's and the magicians birthday were they most successful. Thanks for playing it Tommy 👍🎶🎵🎸🎵
glad u liked it. (or atleast i gathered you did) haven't figured out the meaning anymore than you. most other songs isn't as orchestric as this, byt they have lot's more great stuff, reason i suggested this was just to show you a huge variety of their reportoire crammed in to one song. so you could see if it gave a taste for more uriah heep. i think they are a very underrated band from the same era as some of the greatest rock bands
Uriah Heep were quite big back in the day, at least in my country (Germany). Comparable to Jethro Tull. I saw them once live. For some reason they were hit more severely by the upcoming NWOBHM and punk and later on grunge than other bands. I'm not familiar enough with the band to tell why that may have been. I suspect they're one of those bands our host might have heard without remembering the name. Lady in Black and Free Me in particular are being played on the radio to this day.
@@ThomasJ_Music You got it NE, it is the finest Progressive Love Song of All Time. Heep creating Progressiveness. They outdid everyone at this time. Next up, the Finest Progressive First Song on a Bands first album "Gypsy", with a July Morning chaser, and perhaps then more of Rocker one of their signatures Sunrise, Look At Yourself, or Stealin' From there, there are a myriad of ways you can go. Hit their stuff from 69-74 first though. .
I Think this is a song about how difficult love is. Byron is in love ,sad and giving up and realising it didn't work out. Think the 3 guitar solos show the feeling.And the end of this song show the despair. But a fantastic piece of music. Think one of the once that will go to the historybooks.
Don’t worry, I have great problems with this song too. It’s a bit of everything together at once but it doesn’t work for me. Lady in black. Great song, great base. Easy livin’ . One of their greatest hits
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I like Uriah Heel, but have never heard that song. Didn’t really like it. Too much of a horn section and not enough guitar. They have much better songs than that.
