Artist: URIAH HEEP
Album: 50 YEARS IN ROCK ANNIVERSARY BOX (23CD+1LP+78P-BOOK BOX)

Year: 30.10.2020
EAN/UPS: 4050538607376
Media type: CD

On October 30, BMG will release a newly assembled Boxed set that will work through the band’s 50 year legacy. It will do so with an ambitious 23CDs, four of which were personally curated by Mick Box, Lee Kerslake, Ken Hensley, and Paul Newton (RIP, David Byron/Gary Thain, John Wetton, Trevor Bolder). The Box, called Uriah Heep: Fifty Years In Rock, will also contain a newly remastered LP of The Magician’s Birthday (with newly reimagined Roger Dean cover artwork), two exclusive Roger Dean 2-sided art prints (one with original and reimagined cover of The Magician’s Birthday, and one for Demons and Wizards), and a 64-page book filled with photos, notes, essays, credits, and memorabilia, as well as a look back at the fifty years of Uriah Heep.

The beautifully presented box set contains 23 CD albums including 4 CDs compiled by the original members. This set also includes The Magician’s Birthday LP,  remastered by renowned engineer Andy Pearce of Lou Reed and Black Sabbath fame, with re-imagined artwork by Roger Dean, two art cards and a 64-page book featuring rarities from the band’s personal archives.

This ultimate collection of Uriah Heep albums, released between 1970 and 2019, exists for a reason. This is not the first time that the work of the mighty Londoners has been brought together of course, but never has the band’s ENTIRE career, covering EVERY album, been collected together and presented in this truly celebratory box set.

Contents:

- 19 CDs including all the studio albums + Live 1973*
- 4CDs curated by founding and original members
- 1LP The Magician’s Birthday including re-imagined artwork by Roger Dean
- Softback book of tour programmes and memorabilia
- New notes written by founding and original members
- Exclusive re-imagined CD artwork for selected albums across the band’s early career
- 2 x art cards - celebrated original cover artwork by Roger Dean plus his re-imagined Demons And Wizards and The Magician’s Birthday artwork.

*A number of albums have been combined into 1CD, so the CDs that have more than one album will have the covers intertwined so they can be both seen.

CD1: Very ‘Eavy…Very ‘Umble (1970) + Salisbury (1971)
CD2 [Look At Yourself (1971)]
CD3: Demons and Wizards (1972) + The Magician’s Birthday (1972)
CD4: Sweet Freedom (1973) + Wonderworld (1974)
CD5 [Return To Fantasy (1975)]
CD6: High and Mighty (1976) + Firefly (1977)
CD7: Innocent Victim (1977) + Fallen Angel (1978)
CD8 [Conquest (1980)]
CD9: Abominog (1982) + Head First (1983)
CD10 [Equator (1985)]
CD11 [Raging Silence (1989)]
CD12 [Different World (1991)]
CD13 [Sea Of Light (1995)]
CD14 [Sonic Origami (1998)]
CD15 [Wake The Sleeper (2008)
CD16 [Uriah Heep Live (1973)]
CD17 [Into The Wild (2011)]
CD18 [Outsider (2014)]
CD19 [Living The Dream (2018)]

CD20 (Ken Hensley’s Choices):
01 Paradise
02 The Spell
03 Weep in Silence
04 Rain
05 Circle of Hands
06 July Morning
07 The Park
08 Echoes in the Dark
09 Misty Eyes
10 Fallen Angel
11 The Easy Road
12 Falling In Love
13 Sunrise
14 Sweet Freedom

CD21 (Lee Kerslake’s Choices):
01 July Morning
02 The Magician’s Birthday
03 Traveller in Time
04 Sweet Lorraine
05 Circus
06 Rainbow Demon
07 Come Back to Me
08 Shady Lady
09 All My Life
10 The Other Side of Midnight
11 Who Needs Me
12 That’s the Way That It Is
13 Free Me
14 Stealin’

CD22 (Mick Box’s Choices):
01 The Park
02 Tears in My Eyes
03 Sweet Lorraine
04 Circus
05 Free ‘n’ Easy
06 Woman of the Night
07 Hot Persuasion
08 The Other Side of Midnight
09 Straight Through the Heart
10 Cross That Line
11 Love in Silence
12 What Kind of God
13 Trail of Diamonds
14 The Outsider
15 Falling Under Your Spell

CD23 (Paul Newton’s Choices):
01 Lady in Black
02 Tales
03 Easy Livin’
04 Tears in My Eyes
05 If I Had the Time
06 Real Turned On
07 Come Away Melinda
08 What Should Be Done
09 Why
10 Sympathy
11 Free ‘n’ Easy
12 I’m Alive
13 One Minute
14 Grazed by Heaven