It's all here the epic songs, swirling keyboards, power-chord based rhythm guitars, electrifying lead guitar and perfect vocal harmonies. This album collects the anthems from the band's previous releases on the Spitfire label.
Uriah Heep thrive on drama! That was what one particular scribe said of Heep some time back when reflecting on the history of a band who've not just survived twenty years of rock and roll history but have been instrumental in writing part of that very history. Since the band's inception back in 1970, through the blizzardous, hazy but not so lazy Seventies, and on throughout the adventurous, globe-trotting Eighties Uriah Heep have played their part, climbing new mountains, scaling new peaks and exploring unknown territories, not just literally (though they've done that as well) but metaphorically, as every successive year has opened up another chapter of events that makes the group's biography more than just a story of a rock 'n' roll band ultimately it's a tale of triumph and tragedy, success and failure, challenge and achievement (not to mention a few laughs) over the course of twenty years.
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