Magician's Birthday

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Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrateded.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.

For the most part the production of The Magician's Birthday can be described as overblown... with several notable exceptions, and these provide the only real bright spots on the album. "Rain," a thoughtful and unassuming piece, gets a sensitive presentation which goes a long way toward camouflaging the inadequacies of its lyrical ingredients. And "Sweet Lorraine" has an amusingly eerie sound to it, thanks mainly to Hensley's neat Moog sythesizer work. But two songs don't make an album, and Uriah Heep's fifth effort is a decidedly limited excursion into areas better left unexplored -- at least for the ill-equipped. The title tune is the only one of the eight selections that comes close to being interesting. Unfortunately, it just comes close. The album reminds me of those amateur opera singers who rent Carnegie Recital Hall to give recitals for their tone-deaf friends and for those knowledgeable aficionados who need a good laugh. Uriah Heep, however, takes it all utterly seriously. Give these boys a Dutch rub and six months under house arrest. Blind Eye and Sweet Lorraine. In fact, the whole album works very well and the only song that seems out It is really hard to be evaluated such a variety and professionalism incorporeted into one band. Such a band is Uriah Heep and they proove it over and over again. This time with their 5th studio album - The Magician's Birthday. This album continues the psychedelic foundations of the previous masterpiece... and contains a candidate of my all time favourite composition - the homonymous The Magician's Birthday. RIAA Database: Search for Uriah Heep". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved 15 November 2018.The Magician's Birthday party has become an annual event, celebrating Uriah Heep through the years. It sees the current line up being joined by former members, and other well known performers. magician completing his 500th anniversary. The rest of the band was against it, claiming they should also Originally released in UK November 1972 Bronze ILPS 9213 and in the USA - November 1972 Mercury SRM 1630 1972. bizarre effects heard on top. The song also shows the fun side of Heep: the chorus in the first part

When I was younger, I was a bit dismissive of Uriah Heep, but now I own a few of their albums (Look Without doubt, Uriah Heep´s finest hour in the studio. Together with Demons and Wizzards, it representsAlbum [ edit ] Weekly charts [ edit ] Weekly chart performance for The Magician's Birthday Chart (1972–1973) organ that are penetrated with the scream-like yell of David Byron. It settles as the vocals are almost spoken. It builds.Themes are repeated. I like the organ play in elaborate Roger Dean artwork seems rushed, with sections of the art that still need be filled in! If everything I've just described, then you will find it all delivered well on this album. The reason why I only give this As the french language says: ''sans queue , ni tete'' would describe this ''epic'' ( without head , without tail)

Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. 1973. Archived from the original on 23 May 2021 . Retrieved 2 April 2022. The original vinyl release was a gatefold sleeve, the front designed again by Roger Dean. The inner fold had pictures of the band, with the album itself housed in a liner on which were printed the lyrics. The single " Sweet Lorraine" / " Blind Eye" reached No. 91 in the US Hot 100 chart. [4] The single " Spider Woman" reached No. 14 in Germany. [5] The Magician's Birthday was certified gold by the RIAA on 22 January 1973. [6]Having heard those five songs, I can only say that I wish they'd been more persuasive in getting him to scrap the whole thing. Not that their own song gifts prove particularly scintillating but at least we'd have been spared lyrics like: "Weaker than a moment/Hot as any fire/Blinder than the blind eye/This is man's desire." C'mon guys! Adding to the general chaos is Dave Byron, who handles the lead vocal chores with all the subtlety of a trip-hammer operator, proving once again that breathless intensity makes a poor substitue for true interpretive capability. This recording covers the first "party" held in 2001. The highlight is undoubtedly the appearance of founder member Ken Hensley, who wrote most of the band's most famous works, and contributed the Hammond organ element of their wall of sound. The band play a commendable set covering a cross section of their songs through the years. for me, the weak songs of the record as far as i'm concerned. Both sound really dated. "Blind Eye" has some excellent a b Geesin, Joe (December 2015). "Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday". Record Collector. No.448 . Retrieved 18 November 2018.

Worth it if you were bowled over by Demons and Wizards and don't mind that the artwork manages to be closer to the spirit of that album than the music a lot of the time, but The Magician's Birthday marks the waning of Heep's classic period in my view. The Magician's Birthday is a fundamental album by and for Uriah Heep! And all around the album you feel the thin psychedelic line, that makes everything so great.The Magician's Birthday is one of the greatest epic songs for me and its title is used for the name of Uriah Heep festival. Divine music by a divine band. 5 stars absolutely brilliant material, and material I can do without. I know I'll still be looking for more Magicians Birthday did not aged a bit. It is still my Uriah Heep´s fave album and the most pleasant to hearContinuing in the mythically mystical vein of Demons & Wizards, Uriah Heep firmly plant themselves as a British super-group. The dramatic impact of David Byron's voice can in no way be discounted. The arrangements are flawless, creating a phantasmigoria of sounds and sub-related visual imprints. Choice cuts are "Sunrise," "Tales" and "Echoes in the Park." A very pleasant trip indeed.