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Demons and Wizards

The fourth album, with Roger Dean's gatefold cover.
Uriah Heep, 1972

Gerry Bron produced and Peter Gallen engineered at Lansdowne. Gary Thain, then in the Keef Hartley Band, joined as permanent bassist midway through an American tour; Mark Clarke played bass on "The Wizard". Hensley's sleeve notes call it simply a collection of the band's songs recorded with a good time despite the fantasy title. Singles were "The Wizard" (March 1972) and "Easy Livin'" (July 1972). It reached number one in Finland for 14 weeks, five in Germany and Norway, 20 in the UK and 23 on the Billboard 200, and went gold in the US. Rolling Stone's Mike Saunders called side one odds-on the finest high energy workout of the year; AllMusic gave it 4.5 of 5 and Martin Popoff 10 out of 10.

Track listing

  1. The Wizard2:59
  2. Traveller in Time3:25
  3. Easy Livin'2:37
  4. Poet's Justice4:15
  5. Circle of Hands6:25
  6. Rainbow Demon4:25
  7. All My Life2:44
  8. Paradise5:10
  9. The Spell7:32

More from Uriah Heep

Salisbury (1971), Look At Yourself (1971), The Magician's Birthday (1972), Wonderworld (1974), Return To Fantasy (1975), High And Mighty (1976), Innocent Victim (1977), Firefly (1977), Fallen Angel (1978), Abominog (1982), Head First (1983), Equator (1985), Different World (1991), Sea Of Light (1995), Spellbinder (1996), Sonic Origami (1998), Future Echoes Of The Past (2001), Acoustically Driven (2001), Magic Night (2004), Wake The Sleeper (2008), Celebration - Forty Years Of Rock (2009), Into The Wild (2011), The Sweet Freedom Tour (2018), Mister Wonderworld (2018), Living The Dream (2018), The High And Mighty Tour (2018), Chaos & Colour (2023)

Sources

  1. Demons and Wizards (Uriah Heep album), Wikipedia
  2. Uriah Heep (band), Wikipedia