Monday, December 16, 2024

Uriah Heep : ...Very 'Eavy ...Very 'Umble (Expanded Edition)

 


I WAS ONLY SEVENTEEN,
I FELL IN LOVE
WITH A GYPSY QUEEN....




...Very 'Eavy ...Very 'Umble

 is the debut

 studio album

 by English

 Rock band

 Uriah Heep

 It is recognized as a

 foundational album

 in heavy metal

 music.

Release

The album was

 released in

 June 1970

 by Vertigo Records

 in the UK. 

The original

 vinyl release

 was a gatefold sleeve, 

featuring frontman 

David Byron 

on the front sleeve,

 almost unrecognisable

 beneath cobwebs.



It was issued in

 August 1970

 by Mercury Records

 in the United States

 as just

 Uriah Heep 

with different sleeve artwork

 (a centipede type monster),

 and with the track

 "Bird of Prey"

 in place of

 "Lucy Blues".

 The album was

 reissued by 

Bronze Records

 in 1971 

after the band 

signed to that label.

The album shows 

the band trying out 

various genres

  a mix of 

heavy metal 

and

 progressive rock 

 rather than

 the hard rock 

that they would

 become known

 for on

 later albums.

 Tracks 3 and 8

 were recorded as 

Spice

 songs prior to

 the band's renaming

 as

 Uriah Heep, 

and featured 

session player

 Colin Wood

 on keyboards. 

When Ken Hensley

 joined Spice

 in early 1970, 

the tracks were not 

re-recorded.


TRACK LIST 


Gypsy

Walking In Your Shadow

Come Away Melinda

Lucy Blues

Dreammare

Real Turned On

Wake Up (Set Your Sights)

Bird Of Prey

* [US Album Version]

Born In A Trunk

 (Mix 3) 

(Previously Unreleased Vocal Version)

Come Away Melinda

 [Previously Unreleased Version]

Gypsy 

(Extended Mix)  

(Previously Unreleased Version]

Wake Up (Set Your Sights)

 (Previously Unreleased Version)

Born In A Trunk

 (Previously Unreleased Version)

Gypsy

 (BBC Session - Live)

https://mega.nz/folder/H3Y2GIxB#JghaYMqQ4DJ_ezN0hjwBFA


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