The title song "Return to Fantasy" reveals the album's content via imaginative keyboards, hazy melodies and mystical themes. Posted Saturday, J| Review this album | Report (Review #31336) The deluxe remaster includes seven bonus tracks, two of which are single B sides, four are advanced demos, and one a cut and paste extension of the title track. There are some excellent moments, but there's also an apparent lack of ambition at times, with some treading of water in evidence. While "Return to Fantasy" is a fine album, it does not consistently meet the enormously high standards the band had set for themselves. The final track, "A year or a day" builds superbly from a slow soft start to a climactic conclusion, with lyrical echoes of "The wizard".
The unaccompanied intro to "Why did you go" is particularly delicate, and would have been a challenge beyond most of Byron's contemporaries. The second side is more diverse, with a couple of fine ballads allowing Byron to display his more sensitive side. The remaining tracks on side one are a bit by-the-numbers Heep, although "Beautiful dream" has some good keyboards. "Return to fantasy" is a fine piece of faster paced Heep, with a driving rhythm, and pulsating keyboards. David Byron is still in fine form vocally, thus Wetton becomes almost a session player, providing bass and only occasional backing vocals (it was subsequently revealed that he was actually a "salaried" band member only).Īpart from the opening title track, side one of the LP contains much the weaker tracks on the album. With John Wetton on bass in place of the dismissed Gary Thain, the band had the opportunity to exploit Wetton's songwriting and vocal skills, but once again it's Hensley's songwriting which dominates the album. What there is however is a good collection of Uriah Heep songs. It is however is somewhat misleading, as there's little in the way of wizards, demons, or indeed magicians. The title of course refers to the "Demons and Wizards"/"Magician's Birthday" period, which had brought Uriah Heep both their best music, and their biggest success to date. Cole" (?) Releases informationĬD Legacy Records - LLMCD-3018 (1989, UK)ĬD Essential - ESMCD 381 (1996, UK) Remaster by Mike Brown & Robert Corich w/ 4 bonus tracksĬD Sanctuary Midline - SMRCD100 (2004, Europe) Remaster w/ 7 bonus tracks John Wetton / bass, Mellotron, backing vocals Ken Hensley / keyboards, synths, guitars, backing vocals * Previously unreleased Line-up / Musicians The Time Will Come (single B-side) (4:08)ġ3. Return to Fantasy (single edited version) (3:41)ġ1. Beautiful Dream (demo version) (5:50) *ġ3. The Time Will Come (single B-side) (4:10)ġ2. This is not the first time that the work of the mighty Londoners has been brought together of course, but never has the band’s ENTIRE career, covering EVERY album, been collected together and presented in this truly celebratory box set.Bonus tracks on 1996 Essential remaster :ġ1. This ultimate collection of Uriah Heep albums, released between 19, exists for a reason. Includes personal liner notes Box, Hensley, Newton and Kerslake all contribute words to this box set. Exclusive to this box set are 4 CDs personally compiled by each of the band members detailing their favourite Heep tracks of all time.
#Uriah heep albums full#
The Magician’s Birthday is both on CD3 and on the LP.ĥ0 Years In Rock brings together the full discography including all the seminal albums by British hard rock legends Uriah Heep.Ĭreated with the full collaboration of the band and curated by founding and original members Mick Box, Ken Hensley, Paul Newton and Lee Kerslake. *A number of albums have been combined into 1CD, so the CDs that have more than one album will have the covers intertwined so they can be both seen.ĬD1 – …Very ‘Eavy …Very ‘Umble / SalisburyĬD3 – Demons and Wizards / The Magician’s Birthday
#Uriah heep albums plus#
– 2 x art cards – celebrated original cover artwork by Roger Dean plus his re-imagined Demons And Wizards and The Magician’s Birthday artwork – Exclusive re-imagined CD artwork for selected albums across the band’s early career – New notes written by founding and original members – Softback book of tour programmes and memorabilia – 1LP The Magician’s Birthday including re-imagined artwork by Roger Dean
– 4CDs curated by founding and original members – 19 CDs including all the studio albums + Live 1973* Fifty years and 40 million albums after the bands inception, Uriah Heep have announced that a massive super deluxe box set spanning the groups whole career will be released Octoby BMG
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