London, England, November 12, 1995
This album introduced John Wetton on bass and vocals and, although the chemistry was not the same as with Gary Thain, we still produced a typical 'Heep' album. I think Return To Fantasy, the title track, is a classic 'Heep' song. Devil's Daughter made it into our 1994 live set and proved to be a very powerful stage number. This album reached number 7 in the UK charts and we embarked on a year long tour packed with incidents like me falling off the stage on the very first show in the USA (Louisville, Kentucky) breaking the radial bone in my right hand, which needed two casts a day. We didn't miss any dates, although I was in a lot of pain and the cast was eventually taken off at the end of the tour in Jamaica where I went for a rest with lee. We played to over one million people and travelled over 30,000 air miles and this was once again a very exciting time. The remastered CD of this album is great and I hope you enjoy the bonus tracks too.
KEN HENSLEY
I must admit, I don't listen to this record anymore. It's actually not a bad record, there
are a couple of good tunes and solid performances throughout, but we rushed into it and
it doesn't have any cohesiveness to it. Nor does it contain a hit single! In those days,
we were really struggling internally, and we needed to slow down and re-group a bit. We
never did, of course, and a lot of tragedy followed. But so did a couple of really good
albums, at least in my humble opinion. Definitely not Heep at its best!
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