Uriah Heep

lying liars.

Seriously, May, another huge month because you also got Uriah Heep's High and Mighty and UFO's No Heavy Petting, two big albums that were played on AOR and heavier rock radio stations.

All the big summer releases were coming our way.

And the live local radio made sure that these songs and albums set your summer up for some great fucking tunes.

Suffice to say that if you were to mention the words power and money and greed, you might well be on the right road.

It is a terrible and heartbreaking story, where over the course of the following 12 months, Bob and Lee would resurrect Uriah Heep and record and tour with that band.

Both Bob and Lee were not given credit for their work in composing and recording the Diary of a Madman album when it was finally released.

Instead, Tommy and Rudy were credited on the album.

And, you know, some of them I go back to and go, well, you know, it's still don't quite hear it.

But at the same time, you know, I remember my old man yelling at me about a Uriah Heep record I was playing in the house.

And then I went back and listened to that and went, he wasn't wrong.

He wasn't wrong.

My dad used to say, you know, his son, you know, I can't do the Scottish accent, but he'd be like, son, what are they saying? What's a load of crap? Yeah, I can't hear what they're singing.

What are they singing about? Right, all the time.

It was The Magician's Birthday by Uriah Heep, and my old man was like, what in the world is that garbage you're listening to? That's pretty heavy stuff.

Dad, it's The Heep, right? And then I went back and listened to it.

Yeah.

And it was Uriah Heep, Look at Yourself.

I liked it because it had a quasi mirror on the cover.

So look at yourself and you can see yourself in the reflection.

I mean, I found myself sitting beside David.

Just people from, you know, 70s and 80s that you, Cinderella, you know, Motley Crue, Uriah Heep, all these people, they come in and they help and they coach.

So you should go do it.

I've seen people go there with...

We were doing shows.

I was doing Seals and Crofts, Uriah Heep, Led Zeppelin.

I mean, I was all over the place.

So I said, well, let's—and Dick says— I can't get anybody to go.

I know you did it, too.

Yeah.

In fact, Uriah Heep, their manager, wrote Dick Klotzman.

They would give Dick his East Coast tour if they would make me their tour coordinator.