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----> "''Knowing in your heart what's right, you walk upon the sea of light...''"
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* {{Determinator}}: When your band disintegrates and everyone except you throws the towel in, what do you do? Grit your teeth, call friends and ex-colleagues, gather a new lineup and soldier on. This is what Mick Box did after the great implosion of 1981: he was the only common link between the lineups that recorded ''Conquest'' and ''Abominog'', but he got the band back in shape and steered it in a new direction. Admittedly Box did drink for a few days wallowing in misery, then thought of going solo, then... just snapped back into the combat state of mind, and pulled everything together.
** On a lesser scale, he (plus Trevor Bolder and Lee Kerslake) repeated it five years later, when Peter Goalby and John Sinclair left, and the first of the replacement singers turned out inadequate. They found new people and created a lineup that lasted 21 years, spawning the best of their latterday albums in the process.
** By now (2024) Box is not just the only one of the "classic" lineup, or any of the 70s lineups, still in the band, he's the only member of the "classic" lineup still alive, and yet he soldiers on, and the band has released a string of albums as successful as anyone can realistically expect of a group hailing from the dawn of hard rock, 55 years away from inception.
** On a lesser scale, he (plus Trevor Bolder and Lee Kerslake) repeated it five years later, when Peter Goalby and John Sinclair left, and the first of the replacement singers turned out inadequate. They found new people and created a lineup that lasted 21 years, spawning the best of their latterday albums in the process.
** By now (2024) Box is not just the only one of the "classic" lineup, or any of the 70s lineups, still in the band, he's the only member of the "classic" lineup still alive, and yet he soldiers on, and the band has released a string of albums as successful as anyone can realistically expect of a group hailing from the dawn of hard rock, 55 years away from inception.
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* AlbumTitleDrop: The ''Sea of Light'' album has no title track but this line is heard in the song "Love in Silence" - one of its centerpieces and the longest track on that record.
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* IAmTheBand: A bizarre example. Mick Box, the lead guitarist, is the only original member still in the band to this day. For a time they were a simple RevolvingDoorBand after all of the original members left, with Box as the only constant member. However, the line-up that he formed in 1986 lasted 21 years and would still be together today, had ill-health not forced a change in drummers.
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* IAmTheBand: A bizarre example. Ken Hensley was undoubtedly the leader through the 70s, but then he left the band. Mick Box, the lead guitarist, is the only original member still in the band to this day. For a time time, they were a simple RevolvingDoorBand after all of the original members left, with Box as the only constant member. However, the line-up that he formed in 1986 lasted 21 years and would still be together today, had ill-health not forced a change in drummers.drummers; then, Trevor Bolder who had been the longest running bass player (from 1976 to 2013, minus a short sabbatical between 1981 and 1983), died.
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* ControlFreak: Ken Hensley, the band's keyboardist, second guitarist and primary songwriter during the first part of their career, developed a reputation for iron-handed control over the group.
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* CoolOldGuy: Three of the five band members are over 60 as of September 2020.
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* BasedOnADream: According to Ken Hensley, "The Wizard" was based on a dream he had every night for a week, and as soon as he wrote the lyrics on paper, he stopped having it.
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Uriah Heep are a British ProgressiveRock band [[LongRunners whose debut was released in 1970]] and are still active today. They are considered one of the first HeavyMetal bands, with their initial albums released neck-to-neck with the foundational metal records of Music/LedZeppelin, Music/DeepPurple and Music/BlackSabbath. They stand out from their early 70s contemporaries by their deeper progressive stylings, a taste for the psychedelic and fantastical, and the very heavy presence of the Hammond organ (to an even greater extent than Deep Purple).
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Uriah Heep are a British ProgressiveRock band [[LongRunners whose debut was released in 1970]] and are still active today.as of 2023. They are considered one of the first HeavyMetal bands, with their initial albums released neck-to-neck with the foundational metal records of Music/LedZeppelin, Music/DeepPurple and Music/BlackSabbath. They stand out from their early 70s contemporaries by their deeper progressive stylings, a taste for the psychedelic and fantastical, and the very heavy presence of the Hammond organ (to an even greater extent than Deep Purple).
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* DarkIsNotEvil: The titular "Lady in Black", who gently warns the despairing protagonist that PayEvilUntoEvil only makes things worse.
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They released a new album last month.
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* ''Chaos & Colour'' (2023)
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* AnAesop: "Lady In Black" ends with the message that evil cannot overcome evil.
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* AnAesop: "Lady In Black" ends with the message that evil cannot overcome evil.
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* JesusWasWayCool: One interpretation of "Easy Livin'" is that it's a song about finding religion, sang at Jesus. Hensley was a devout Christian, but he gives the song a different meaning.
-->''Easy Livin'''
-->''And I've been forgiven''
-->''Since you've taken your place in my heart''
-->''Easy Livin'''
-->''And I've been forgiven''
-->''Since you've taken your place in my heart''
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* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "Rain" from ''Magician's Birthday'' is a soft piano ballad in the middle of a hard/prog rock record. It was originally intended to involve no other instruments than the piano, but the band's manager insisted on a bit more oomph to not stand out too much on the album. A more stripped-down rendition can be found on Ken Hensley's first solo album.
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* BasedOnADream: According to Ken Hensley, "The Wizard" was based on a dream he had every night for a week, and as soon as he wrote the lyrics on paper, he stopped having it.
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* ForDoomTheBellTolls: The ominous opening to "Rainbow Demon".
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* JesusWasWayCool: One interpretation of "Easy Livin'" is that it's a song about finding religion, sang at Jesus. Hensley was a devout Christian, but he gives the song a different meaning.
-->''Easy Livin'''
-->''And I've been forgiven''
-->''Since you've taken your place in my heart''
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-->''And I've been forgiven''
-->''Since you've taken your place in my heart''
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* NightmareDreams: "Too Scared to Run", which seems to be about sleep paralysis.
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* ShortRunners: The band's lineup with bassists Mark Clarke lasted about two to three months, but Clarke helped write, played on, and sang in "The Wizard", so he appears in the final ''Demons and Wizards'' album.
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* VocalTagTeam: David Byron and Ken Hensley sometimes sang in duet with each other, such as on "I Wanna Be Free", where their harmonies sound like a tiny choir. In "Paradise", they alternate lines with each other, panned to the right and left channels, respectively, for a back-and-forth.
