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This double album features Uriah Heep recorded live on stage in Europe in 1979 in Freiburg, Ludwigshafen, Offenbach and Hammersmith. At this point the band had released thirteen albums on the Bronze label and the set includes the best of their material from their first decade. The tracks here are the first live recordings from the band since the million-selling Live album in 1973, and have never been available commercially before.
The band here as ever centres around the legendary Mick Box on guitar and vocals and Ken Hensley on keyboards, guitars and vocal. Other members were John Lawton, who had replaced David Byron two years earlier, on vocals. Lee Kerslake, who joined in 1972 on drums and the ex-Spider From Mars, Trevor Bolder on bass.
This line-up cut three albums: Firefly (1977), Innocent Victim (1977) and Fallen Angel (1978), which included studio versions of all the songs on side 3 here, plus Free 'N' Easy and Free Me.
Uriah Heep never pleased the critics, but they delighted the fans through the world, especially in Germany and USA, with their live performances and along the way have sold well over twelve million albums. In 1986, Mick Box still rocks on. The U.S. critic who once wrote "If this group makes it, I'll have to commit suicide" has presumably long since passed on.
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