TOPS M- 1971 Orig URIAH HEEP LOOK AT YOURSELF Hard Prog Psych HEAVIEST HEEP
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1972 FIRST PRESSING WITH MIRROR COVER!!!
44 YEAR OLD SILVER MIRROR COVER!
MINTY CLEAN COLLECTION COPY
URIAH HEEP
LOOK AT YOURSELF
\ USA - (RED) MERCURY - SRM 1 614
TOP COPY! One of the best we've seen!
Includes the scarce original printed Mercury Records inner sleeve....
Original 1972 first pressing ... this is the impossible to find silver foil MIRROR cover that is ALWAYS scuffed and scratched = it's 44 years old ... here, an AMAZING SURVIVING TOP COPY with vinyl that plays smooth like glass! Don't hold your breath for the next great copy, their not around....
The 1972 Uriah Heep's "LOOK AT YOURSELF" is the high water mark for the famed British heavy prog psych band and a great one featuring their most turned-on powerful sounds...
- David Byron - lead vocals
- Ken Hensley – organ, piano, guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals
- Mick Box – lead guitar, acoustic guitar
- Paul Newton – bass guitar
- Ian Clarke – drums
A fierce, Heep comes out on this album! Anger and aggression seem to dominate the songwriting, here, and it makes for a compelling piece of music.
Opening with the title track it hurtles out of the tracks like some demented heavy metal demon, Hensley and Box thrash out the songs riff before the wonderfully strong voice of David Byron calls his brethren to the cause, the rest of the band harmonizing behind him, then after a rampaging guitar solo, the riff is picked up again to bring the song to a rousing crescendo with the percussionists from 'Osibisa' brought in to add their sound to the climax. The pace is not let up by the following song 'I Wanna Be Free' as the chorus is driven along by a pounding beat, but with sympathetic vocals, and fine musical flourishes, with all the guitars in the band standing out. At track three is probably Uriah Heep's most famous song 'July Morning' a song that no version of the band could ever contemplate going on stage and not playing before they leave, it must of also been licensed out to every 'Best of Hard rock albums' ever made. After Ken Hensley's strident organ chords open the song up, Mick Box takes the song to a higher level with some truly rockin' guitar, before the whole thing is brought down to allow the vocals of David Byron to take over, the song is a loving ten minutes long, showing the full range of all the soloist's, building to many crescendo's before reaching a dramatic conclusion with everybody having a go at the solo's and Manfred Mann brought into the studio to add his deft touch on the moog syntherziser, a classic rock song. And it just goes on alike from there ...powerful... Uriah Heep's rampage.
CONDITION: The cover is a silver foil 'mirror' cover and a TOP COPY rated M- really about impossible find this clean...most all surviving copies have scuffs & scrapes on the silver mirror ... here, a most TOP end collection copy survivor. It will be very hard to find a better copy (see photo) ... there is just a little bit (tiny) scuff to mirror, hardly anything, and otherwise rare to see this clean.... no delete marks, all seams solid, no seam splits and no writing ...
The vinyl is all glossy both sides, M- clean and plays TOPS LEVEL with no audio problems = CLEAN red Mercury labels makes this 44 year old platter one to own !
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...
EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING
All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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