URIAH HEEP 'SWEET FREEDOM' ORIG UK 1st PRESS '73

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Apr 4, 2015 Sold Date

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Uriah Heep

'Sweet Freedom'

Bronze, UK, 1973

ILPS 9245

SIXTH ALBUM in a long line of winners and no loosers. Retaining every molecule of pomposity, the Heep move in on their kill with precision and power drawing from a rich history of heaviousity spearheaded by Hensley's swirling Hammond Organ, Mick Box's blistering wah-wah guitar and David Byron's ludicrously operatic vocal gymnastics - and I say that with love.

At the time they were members of the big four - Sabbath Purple, Zeppelin and...the Heep. Rampaging heavy rock dinosaurs trampling from continent to continent raizing concert halls to the ground and clogging the airwaves with colourful and frightening album length tracks. It was a great time and, thankfully, I saw all of the above bands in their heyday including Heep promoting this very album.

'Sweet Freedom' is a classic make no mistake. Every nuance is extremely well thought out, every riff calculated to create maximum impact and the quality of songs are just outrageous. As a working unit and forever on tour, it amazes me that they ever found time to write stuff this good. There are some crackers here such as 'Dreamer', 'One Day', 'Sweet Freedom' and possibly Heeps best known track of all 'Stealin'. Side two is a corker on mass with 'If I Had The Time', the unrelenting 'Seven Stars', the melodromatic 'Circus' and arguably the albums best track 'Pilgrim' a l-o-o-o-n-g epic where all the parts come into focus and the band really dig in deep - every member pulling their weight and working like a well oiled machine.

Possibly the last truly great Heep opus and one that should be in every lover of early seventies hard rock collection.

Pressing: Bronze, UK, 1973

Vinyl: Clean and shiny condition. A few extremely light spindle marks on labels and some faint signs of use - best copy I've seen in years. Grades as top Ex+

Cover: Only light signs of use. Issued in a beautifully illustrated and richly crafted gatefold cover. Sharp corners (tips faintly rubbed), no dings, no bends, no ring wear, no split seams and no creases. Spine is perfectly square, straight, stiff and totally uncrushed. Just some light storage wear and an area of rubbing on rear panel. Grades as top Ex

Inserts: None

Matrix:

1st Pressing

Side One: ILPS 9245 A - 1

Side Two: ILPS 9245 B - 1

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