Magician's Birthday

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The Magician's Birthday is a fundamental album by and for Uriah Heep! And all around the album you feel the thin psychedelic line, that makes everything so great.The Magician's Birthday is one of the greatest epic songs for me and its title is used for the name of Uriah Heep festival. Divine music by a divine band. 5 stars Original lead singer David Byron is remembered in the lyrics of "Between two worlds", while Thijs Van Leer gives "Tales" from "The magician's birthday" album a whole new dimension with some wonderful flute playing and yodelling(!). Hensley joins the band for "July morning", and remains on stage from then on. Byron's replacement John Lawton also participates later on, his distinctive voice contrasting with current singer Bernie Shaw's more Byron like sound. The highlight for me is the rare live performance of "Paradise/The spell" complete with Hensley's wonderful slide guitar solo. The problem , is for the first time, there are BAD songs and inconsequential tunes that drown the album a little bit.( more to

Continuing in the mythically mystical vein of Demons & Wizards, Uriah Heep firmly plant themselves as a British super-group. The dramatic impact of David Byron's voice can in no way be discounted. The arrangements are flawless, creating a phantasmigoria of sounds and sub-related visual imprints. Choice cuts are "Sunrise," "Tales" and "Echoes in the Park." A very pleasant trip indeed. Though undeniably a pleasant listen, Uriah Heep's The Magician's Birthday doesn't quite measure up to the high standards of the run of albums leading up to it. The soaring, fantastic atmosphere of Demons and Wizards occasionally peeps in here and there, which saves the album from total mediocrity, but the glorious heights reached on that album are nowhere to be seen here. Simply put, doesn't really have any truly memorable standout songs that remain with you after listening - something every Heep album from Salisbury to Demons and Wizards offered in spades. Simply put, I could listen intently to the album and then an hour later I couldn't remember what most of the songs sound like aside from Sweet Lorraine - something which certainly isn't true of Salisbury or Demons and Wizards. was something of a mess when compared to their previous albums. The deadline of this album had beenDon't get me wrong: there are some excellent parts as well. Who doesn't like the beauty of ''Echoes in the dark'' and this

a b Popoff, Martin (October 2003). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 1: The Seventies. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p.302. ISBN 978-1894959025. If anyone ever wanted to know what a typical classic Uriah Heep album sounded like, this would be a fine

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To the band's credit, it wasn't really their fault that their fifth album, 'The Magician's Birthday' magician completing his 500th anniversary. The rest of the band was against it, claiming they should also elaborate Roger Dean artwork seems rushed, with sections of the art that still need be filled in! If a b "Single - Uriah Heep, Spider Woman". Charts.de (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts . Retrieved 19 November 2018. The single " Sweet Lorraine" / " Blind Eye" reached No. 91 in the US Hot 100 chart. [4] The single " Spider Woman" reached No. 14 in Germany. [5] The Magician's Birthday was certified gold by the RIAA on 22 January 1973. [6]