Salisbury (Album)

Occupation

• David Byron - vocals
• Ken Hensley - keyboards, guitar, vocals
• Mick Box - guitar, vocals
• Paul Newton - bass guitar, vocals
• Keith Baker - drums
• John Fiddy - Brass Arrangement

Salisbury is the second studio album by British rock band Uriah Heep. Inspired by a stay in the same city of Salisbury, the LP was recorded October to November in 1970, appeared in England in February 1971, in the U.S. a little later. As was the case Very ' eavy ... Very ' umble, the U.S. edition a completely different cover and a slightly different track list (Simon the Bullet Freak, B- side of the single Lady in Black, instead of Bird of Prey ).

With the title song Uriah Heep ventured for the first time in a really long song, influenced by Ken Hensley's organ and a large horn section, a raised top, which opens into a orgiastic solo.

Lady in Black is the song that many associate with the name Uriah Heep, but was only years later to a real hit.

Intermediate rather calm tones and powerful guitar riffs, the band cultivated their typical vocal harmonies on which they could be for many other bands the reference concerning polyphonic choirs.

The original cover of the album showed a main battle tank of the type Chieftain, alluding related to the title of the album on the Salisbury Plain, a large military training area in the outskirts of Salisbury. For the American version, the record company was concerned, however, that the cover was inappropriate and damaging to sale because of the Vietnam War, and moved from the Cover.

Title

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• CD booklet Castle Essential ESMCD 317 (1996)

Weblink

• Reviews of Salisbury on the Baby Blue Pages
• Salisbury at Allmusic (English)

• Album ( Hard Rock )
• Album 1971
• Uriah Heep - album