URIAH HEEP-JULY MORNING-LIVE 1972-Dolby Pro LogicII 384kbs

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!

"JULY MORNING" 1972 Live at the Bijou

Uriah Heep Live 1972
The finished Audio lists at 514kbs.

"There I was on a July morning
Looking for love,
With the strength of a new day dawning
And the beautiful sun
At the sound of the first bird singing
I was leaving for home
With the storm and the night behind me
And a road of my own"

FYI:
I have included the FLAC Audio of Heeps "Seven Stars" as it is a very unique song that my friend back in 1973 called me over to his house and put this Album on and he turned me onto this one Heep song that I will never forget, hope you like it!

"Seven Stars"
"Don't try to be anything else but what you are
Don't try to do anything else but the things you do
'Cause I had a dream about the seven stars
And the seven good things that you are
To me"

Uriah Heep are an English rock band formed in London in 1969 and are regarded as one of the seminal hard rock acts of the early 1970s. Uriah Heep's progressive/art rock/heavy metal fusion's distinctive features have always included a massive keyboard sound, strong vocal harmonies and (in the early years) David Byron's quasi-operatic vocals. Twelve of the band's albums have made it to the UK Albums Chart (Return to Fantasy reached No. 7 in 1975) while of the fifteen Billboard 200 Uriah Heep albums Demons and Wizards was the most successful (#23, 1972). In the late 1970s the band had massive success in Germany, where the "Lady in Black" single was a big hit. Along with Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep had become one of the top bands in the early 1970s - one of "The Big 4" of hard rock.

Here is a link to Uriah Heeps 2014 Concerts:
http://www.songkick.com/artists/14365-uriah-heep/calendar

"July Morning" is a song by Uriah Heep. It is the third track of their 1971 album Look at Yourself. The song was written by the band's keyboardist Ken Hensley and original lead singer, David Byron. Approximately the last four minutes of the piece consist of an (accompanied) organ solo, serving as a fine example of Hensley's keyboard talents. The "odd" sounding calliope riffs are actually Manfred Mann, who according to the album's liner notes "Appears for the first time with his Moog synthesizer".The song also has been released as a single from Uriah Heep's first ever live album Uriah Heep Live.
In Bulgaria, there is a tradition called July Morning (Bulgarian: ?????? ???????) which is believed to be an echo from the hippie era of the 1960-1980s. Although not universally observed in the country, it is unique as it is not observed anywhere else in the world. Usually, in the days before 1st of July, people from across Bulgaria travel (often hitchhiking) to the Black Sea coast to meet the first sun rays on the first day of July. People gather around fires, share drinks, play music and wait for the sunrise. There is no mandatory ritual, ceremony or rite for this tradition and it is up to participants' discretion how will they spend the night before July 1. On many locations, there are concerts with professional and amateur bands. Camping at the locations of choice for the July Morning celebration is also very popular.Initially, celebrants gathered on Pier 1 in Port of Varna East; now the vigil takes place on beaches as well. In recent years, it has spread to Kamen Bryag, Kavarna, Shkorpilovtsi, Irakli, Burgas, Sozopol, Varvara, Ahtopol, Chernomorets as well as the whole Bulgarian Black Sea coast. There were many attempts to commercialize the tradition by various parties - municipal authorities, concert promoters, etc. - trying to organize July Morning festivals and specials. All such attempts failed, possibly due to the lack of a single location of celebrations. Most recently, in 2012 some 12,000 people met the sunrise at Kamen Bryag where the song July Morning was performed by ex-Uriah Heep's singer John Lawton. The name of the tradition comes from the British rock band's Uriah Heep's 1971 hit July Morning which became widely popular in Bulgaria in the 1980s and somehow named and remained central to this unique Bulgarian tradition.
There are many versions of the meaning of the tradition. Most people consider July Morning a celebration of a new beginning and freedom in the spirit of the hippie movement. For others, it is a good reason for a late night/early morning party as July 1 is the first day of summer break for most high schools in Bulgaria and the unofficial start of the summer vacationing season, traditionally culminating with a trip to the Black Sea coast in July or August.

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