Uriah Heep - Lucy Blues (1970)

[SonOfCheepThrill]

great album... still remember wat's written on the back sleeve of the vinyl... quoted by Ken Hensley.. saying abt it being their first LP.. n LP stands for 'large problem'... RIP Dave.

[Feyyza7]

R.I.P

[deliciouspunkgirl]

Each and every one of the seventy's songs is unique..and all of them have something special..

[augustmaquet]

'I do not like the reappearance of The Jesuits ... If ever there was a body of men who merited damnation on earth and in hell, it is this society of Loyola's. Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religous toleration to offer them an asylum.' John Adams, 2nd President of the U.S.A

[laserthebeam1]

we americans WERE stupid in buying the american version of very 'eavy. this song is 1000x better than bird of prey

[GIORGOSGUNIT]

@laserthebeam1 These songs are completly different.Bird of Prey has one of the most insane vocals used in rock/metal history.If you're so incompetent and musically ignorant to understand this,dont bother commenting.

[Xtraplus92]

Je n'oublierai jamais la fille qui m'a offert l'album "Very heavy humble" pour mes 17ans.Si toutefois Isabelle lit ce commentaire,je lui dit que je ne l'oublierai jamais et que je l'aime toujours,depuis 72.Isabelle. M de Lev...Elle se reconnaitra ,super brune aux yeux verts avec des formes à damner un saint.Quelle chance que j'ai gaché.

[Thunderfingers999]

Great song...of course pretty much ANY Heep song is great!

[Fastrackband]

Hey we are FASTRACK a rocknroll band from Melbourne. We are supporting Uriah Heep when they tour Australia next month so if you have a spare 5 minutes please watch our single "Steal the Show" and let us know what you think. We just want to be heard, we think we have something to offer when it comes to R'n'R

[bluangel150]

Love this sound. Would have enjoyed more like it along with all they did. Thanks for sharing it.

[happymealme]

Ugh man, life is good.

[pezlips788]

great band one of a kind.

[jrcp61]

Uriah Heep, the way I remember it was kind of a music to listen witrh your friends at school while doing a math homework. A very intelectual music

[jsilence418]

@jrcp61 Uriah heep? intellectual? I guess that's why you can't spell intellectual!

[1645petta]

Nice, isn´t it?

[tomitstube]

good stuff man. ken hensley i'm guessing on both the b-3 and piano?

[ezandycle]

Interesting early song. Sounds like they were trying to keep a link to the British blues rock movement going. It should have been on the US version of their debut LP. Bird Of Prey was included instead; an alternate(I think inferior)version of the track which appeared on the English release of SALISBURY.

[blitzspeer]

I love Uriah Heep but this reminds me of a Mississippi church revival.I'm not a blues fan so sorry to the fan's just isn't the Uriah I like.

[ilgoff]

it's still got that bluesy touch nowadays,although it's been about 30 to40 years old.

it's a pity that uriah heep recorded only one of a kind of this great bluesy song.

[mimichou53]

toute ma jeunesse et que je réecoute avec plaisir

michel ( france )

[sehaalturk]

@mimichou53 Moi aussie, en Turquie et en Amerique.

[MrGiobyron]

Great music, great times! Wonderful HEEP

[wardka]

This is good, no doubt. But I am glad Heep continued their heavy direction after this. I've got just about all the Heep (American version) albums. I have no blues albums -- except early Tull, and they moved on in a big way too.

[sirlovemehard]

Ken Hensley is an awesome singer, like him almost more than Byron...

[elunde7777]

bleedin blues negros invented R n r thank you.,,,.

you da best

[sauerix]

Like Led Zeppelin that played several blues tunes on their debut album, Uriah Heep also closed their excellent and one of their best albuns with this great blues. Here Ken and David highlights their talents on organ and vocals. The band never recovered from David's death and after Ken's departure I stopped buying and listening to their albuns. It would be better if Mick Box decided not to continue calling his band Uriah Heep in respect to his old more talented music partners

[dearmalika]

Fantastic! Love this song!

[stupididiot13]

this is when heep had to be bleck....like the blecks...

[jeffthrow6892]

This song apparently was replaced with "Birds Of Prey" on the US release of their first album, so I hadn't heard this before. Nice bluesy tune, but I'd have to say "Birds Of Prey" is definitely better.

[sauerix]

There is no comparison between this song (a great blues tune) with Birds of Prey. It was very stupid from US producers to remove this song from their first album. Listen to it a few more times and you realize what you have lost all these years.

[jeffthrow6892]

I'll listen to this again but, if your trying to say this is better than "Bird Of Prey", well, uh, I think your crazy man.....

[sauerix]

When I bought this album I did not understand the blues and I did not like this song. With the years I discovered the power of the blues and I started to play the whole album. The more I hear this song the more I like it, specially the part of Ken's organ solo. Bird of Prey was released in Brazil on the Salisbury album and I consider it the 2nd best song of the album being "The Park" the number one. As I said before it is no possible to compare Lucy Blues with Bird of Prey or any other Heep song

[jeffthrow6892]

Well, I love the Blues & always have, & this is a very good song. But, I just think "Bird Of Prey" stands as one of Heep's signature tunes, you know what I mean?

[sauerix]

I agree with you. Bird of Prey contains several musical elements that characterized the Heep sound: high tuned multiple vocals, heavy guitars and the hammond organ. I consider though "Tears in my Eyes" as their number one even though on this one there is almost no hammond organ. Ken was a genius. He included a slide guitar played by him on top of Mick Box heavy guitar making this song one of their most powerful ones. There is a video of this song from a show in Japan in 1973. Take a look !

[RockoSaurius]

Incredible song mixes Jazz, Blues, a some little bit of Rock.. Great Years 70`s..!!!

Uriah Heep....LEGENDS OF ROCK..!!!

[mflash55]

Ken Hensley was a under-rated member of this band-the show I saw them at in the 70's he played organ, guitar and sang-Brillent!!!

[ozplasmic]

Those was the dayz!

Great music, great times!

Whoot!

[kingkongpingpongdong]

that cover reminds me similarly of an acid trip I had on a rainy night; longing to have the sun come out... one of the most painful of times in the head.

[kingkongpingpongdong]

Times are better though!

:)

[Xhaosz]

I am very familiar with that feeling good sir. good to know I'm not the only one.

[myvolvocar]

My good what a great singer mr David Byron was!! R.I.P!!

[Capriquarian3]

Yea, that's David's face on the cover. The band actually thought later that it was a little bit morbid after he died in 1985. This was the old cover, my cd has the centipede on it. Strangely, I had to copy it, because the disc has some microscopic organisms attached to it; I keep my discs clean and this never happened on any other disk. Uriah Heep has been my favorite band, since I first found Look At Yourself in my my dad's 8-track collection in 1989. Shadows of Grief was one of the best songs.

[luckyforsome56]

Great song...havent heard it for a long time...did you know that that is Davids face behind the cobwebs?

[henkah]

no never knew this erven while I had the album myself. Great blues. David had a great voice!

[chrishove123]

forgotten how absolutely fuckin' brilliant this is. Nice one for puttin' it up

[TISHYDISH]

David Byron(lives on) was great at everything he sang. He performs the blues well, best not forget the other members of the band, without Byron they would not have been so popular.

[porlaspasiones]

Hermoso blues ; )

[oldludwig]

Just beautifully executed blues from an unlikely band. One of my all time favoutites and one reason why I fell in love with the blues and remain so today. So good to hear this again.... thanks for posting it! Cheers.

[mauricedelacroix]

Excelente blue! Agradável e envolvente. Lembrei muito de minha mocidade desta vez.

[19franken95]

Really fine tune!! Slow blues can be so simple and wonderful... perhaps that's why we love it.

[milansc]

I've alwayd found this song very relaxing.

Just imagine yourself on a quite beach, sitting back and relaxed ...

[Maverick114227]

amen.

[emadmadi]

or in bar with dangerous stranger pepole and music go on.

[charoufunk]

what a bloody number, now i all i need is lucy.

[hereruvit]

Hatta er ein forbankað góður sangur; mær hevur altíð dámt hann síðan eg var smádrongur og gekk og reikaðist runt í Føroyum.

This is a delicate song. Absolutely wonderful!

[animablues]

Uno dei piu grandi gruppi di tutti i tempi,ma con David Byron al microfono..peccato siano cresciti nell'ombra della popolarità dei Purple e dei Sabbath.A livello di tecnica e di inventiva non erano meno a nessuno!purtroppo le masse sono pecore..

[TheChugulator]

Yeah they were as good as black sabbath and deep purple. Almost as good as led Zeppelin

[juliyjacke]

Love it...absolutely wonderful

[minerjoe]

This song is so easy to listen to, ,,,,very cool