I caught the flu and everything, and on stage that night I was really ill, and I felt ill. “Yet on the way from London to the gig I was sick as a dog. “Birmingham’s not our strongest place in Britain,” Mick points out, “but it was the gig where we got the best sound. “It might sound like I’ve got a big `ead,” says Box, not giving a damn, “but that’s the way it’s going.” However, to start at the beginning, we must go back to Friday, January 26, this year, and Birmingham Town Hall. And sales figures suggest it’ll be gold in a couple of weeks.

In America, he tells everyone - including Ronnie, his Indian bloodbrother - it’s made the charts. Mick Box, the Heep’s remarkable guitarist, can hardly contain his delight over this album as we sit in a Leicester Square, London, wine bar gulping quantities of Rosie. But I’ll stick my neck out and say the concept, production and atmosphere they’ve immortalised is the finest I’ve heard. Of course, a double set of Heep’s act isn’t quite the same as seeing them in the flesh. Then the Pye Mobile Unit had to be hired, roadies paid… hell, you’re doing just fine paying out £3. It probably cost the promoter a few hundred times the price of this album to stage the show. If you missed out on this news earlier, I`ll tell you I’m talking about the “Uriah Heep Live” album, recorded live in Birmingham. You receive the official concert programme as a sleeve and get a couple of thousand rowdie, sweaty Brummies thrown in too. If ever a band deserves accolades, it is this band.įOR ONE SHINING new penny less than three quid you can put a Uriah Heep gig in your home. They should be proud of the way that they are constantly recording new material and their endless touring around the world. One thing is for sure, as Mick Box says in the article: Uriah Heep is definitely a band that goes on and on.

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