@@Gerrys-Channel What Sharon did to Kerslake and Bob Daisley was total bullshit. Anybody who knows bass and drums can tell Tommy Aldridge and Rudy Sarzo did not play on Diary.
You forgot "Alice", the WHO, Nugent, Johnny Winter, etc. MAN, I was just graduating "High" school back in '72 and the music couldn't have been better, (not to mention the "House" parties with ALL this music blaring in a quiet suburban neighborhood).
@@ricleonardis9314 what is she without fancy clothes, makeup and electronics to what she presents ? Can she make music that would touch people's souls?
I love Uriah Heep and I love the fact that I’m the first one to watch it and the first one to comment. Thank you Midnight Special for taking me back to when I was 12 years old.
My God this brings back so many great memories!! These guys were great,all of them.....51 years have passed now and their music is still relevant today.
@@lucalone Thank you for the reply. Yes they are. The older I get, the more I recognize how the US falls short and is backwards in many ways... music recognition is certainly one of this.
St. Louis radio station KSHE has a digital side channel that I just recently started checking out. It has a wide range of late '60s-and-up songs: I heard Strawbs today; Renaissance - and an obscure Deep Purple cut Friday, among others. I think it can be streamed online - if not geo-fenced.
It must have been great. Great musicians concentrating on their playing and a stage small enough to see them w/o huge monitors. And to be able to sit and enjoy the music…perfect.
In some ways it definitely was (or is, if you buy the block universe model). This is not the best UH song for sure, but a not bad performance. Easy Living is a much better song. The thing about this time is that while the clothes and hair seem wack by today's standards - of course they didn't when you were living through (those times).
@@scottlarson1548Definitely True 💯% Agree! I went to downtown Nashville, Tennessee over Thanksgiving and was dancing outside along the sidewalks, live music was pouring out of every restaurant/bar, with doors & windows wide open. What a fantastic experience & nothing like I thought it would be, now I want to go back!!
Such a phenomenal band. As a bassist myself Gary Thain was one of the best out there. Great songwriting great vocals great look...when bands looked like bands.
@@joemartucci4786 modeled my bass playing after him as well. He and Mel Shachner of Grand Funk were my favorites. John Entwistle also. Great years of bassists
I bought that album for around $3.50 because of the album cover. What a find! Did it with several bands back then, Strawbs, From the witchwoods for another
Saw them open with this song at a concert in St. Petersburg in 1974. Fog on the stage, lights down, and then you hear the opening chords, then Byron, and then it was full game on. Will never forget it. They wrapped it up with that great rock 'n roll medley with Blue Suede Shoes and At The Hop.
I first heard this song on a Warner Brothers loss leader album called "Heavy Metal" and fell in love ❤. I got to see them open for KISS in 77, Stealin was their encore. After that KISS looked like they were mailing in their show, they quit during Beth, and a riot ensued. Heep owned that night
@reverendtos4271 me as well k- tel records I believe, was also a double album I think ,paranoid, Frankenstein so many hits on that one record that open and expanded my musical experience.
I also have that Warner bros compilation double album..it got me into alot of good music..that was a great album..it was also the first time I heard yes,starship trooper live..and it still gives me chills to this day..
The 70's on full display here. Gawd how I miss this time in my life. And what a wonderful awesome experience only those that were alive at the time could appreciate.
I have a copy of Sweet Freedom autographed by the whole band, courtesy of Mick Box. He and I both come from the same part of East London (Walthamstow) and I worked as a teenager in Sainsburys with the mum of a school friend of his. She had a word with Mick and the album duly arrived! A treasured possession still, over 50 years later. Sad to think that of the guys in this clip only Mick is still with us…..
I love the fact that all performances on The Midnight Special were live and not lip-synced like American Bandstand. Bring The Midnight Special back along with everyone alive who performed on the show!
Prime example why the Midnight Special is so popular. This is why people stayed home and turned on their tv 📺 sets to watch these amazing groups. This is good times and memories.
Take a close look at the album cover of SWEET FREEDOM. Do you notice that the four late members died in the exact sequence in which they are shown? Gary, Dave, Lee and Ken. Rock on, Mick! The favourite band of my youth!
This was truly an amazing band. All supremely talented and David Byron was a great singer and very charismatic front man. I saw them right around this time opening for Emerson Lake and Palmer when ELP was at the peak of their Brain Salad Surgery era. Remember when you could see a show and sometimes have two or three bands that were all headliners in one night. Wow. Glad I was a teenager at that time. We may not have been the Greatest Generation, but we were sure as fuck the Luckiest Generation. Hey, that would make a good book.
what is called music now is throw away garbage. It all sounds the same. There is no personality to new music. Excuse me I just had to barf thinking about it.
Thank goodness for these Midnight Special uploads! So much clarity of vision and sound. THANK YOU! The mighty Uriah Heep just as they were peaking in that 1972/73 period. How cool does Hensley look behind that Hammond? His songwriting really made that band.
It must be a special kind of burden as the last man standing, but Mick comes off as such a humble guy grateful for what he has gotten to do over all these decades, and he deserves credit for still doing it as someone who left his youth way behind him.
Takes me back to my teenage years. Absolutely fantastic times, being able to appreciated Uriah Heep, partying and feeling the new found freedoms of late adolescence.
Meine Band der 70 er. Es war besonders, sich eine Scheibe zu kaufen, um sich dann ins Zimmer zu verkriechen, um diese Musik zu inhalieren. Diese Band hat mir in den jungen Jahren soviel gegeben. RIP Gary, David, Ken und Lee. Never forget these days...
They played this when they opened for Kiss at the Assembly Center in 1977, it was their encore, after that Kiss looked flat, Kiss stopped the concert during Beth, I guess they couldn't take being upstaged. Riot began shortly after that.😂
Haha, Poor Kiss being deflated! Crazy about a riot too! Wish I’d gone to see Uriah, never cared for Kiss all too much, the Assembly Center was the place to be for huge concerts, sweet memories made there.
URIAH HEEP LIVE is one of my favorite albums ever, with several brilliant songs; Easy Living, July Morning, Sunrise, Sweet Loraine, etc etc! I can't believe how underrated Uriah Heep are!?!
Seminal British rock band that influenced SO many other acts. Incredible musicians and always a great show live. Some of the best rock music made in the early and mid 70’s. RIP lads - sadly all original members have passed except Mick Box (keep shreddin’ Mick!)
Super quality for a 1973 production! Everything live! Sadly only one member of this line-up is still living, but that one is still active on the road: Mick Box and Uriah Heep. Incredible!
My Uncle Lee on drums. Quite a talented man.
YES. Besides being a solid powerhouse drummer, he was also a great singer, songwriter, and showman.
Indeed
He also plays on Ozzy Blizzard and Diary. He rules!
Thanks for sharing him with us !❤
@@Gerrys-Channel What Sharon did to Kerslake and Bob Daisley was total bullshit. Anybody who knows bass and drums can tell Tommy Aldridge and Rudy Sarzo did not play on Diary.
The 70’s were BY FAR the best years to be a teenager. Music was at its PEAK and life was good.
I could say the same thing about the 60s''.
Man i wish i was born in 1960 instead of 2003 lol
@@TopRevsThen you would be as old as me.
And probably went to Vietnam also
No one born in 1960 went to Vietnam. The war ended when they were 14.
The opportunity to relive my youth daily on You Tube is amazing.......all these classic songs from my teens come visiting again....
Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, on and on. What a fabulous era of music
🙏 Amen!!!
Toss Zep and Floyd out of that sentence and 100% agree.
You forgot "Alice", the WHO, Nugent, Johnny Winter, etc. MAN, I was just graduating "High" school back in '72 and the music couldn't have been better, (not to mention the "House" parties with ALL this music blaring in a quiet suburban neighborhood).
@@1chuck96 yes, the Amboy Dukes, awesome. Grand Funk Railroad...so much great music
Aerosmith, UFO, AC/DC, KISS, Rick Derringer, The Sweet, April Wine
Music like this is what the world needs today. Wishful thinking
Very true
Heep's music is very uplifting.
I hear a lot of hate, chanting and despair in today's music.
Very rarely something melodious, or that tells a story.
When a yound Lady is holding down Billboard top 100 We need a change
@@ricleonardis9314 what is she without fancy clothes, makeup and electronics to what she presents ? Can she make music that would touch people's souls?
Man what a time to be alive, makes me feel 18 again!
Get your bell bottoms on and your Fonzie T-shirt out,your 18 and you know what you want.
It’s always a time for magic like this.
I love Uriah Heep and I love the fact that I’m the first one to watch it and the first one to comment. Thank you Midnight Special for taking me back to when I was 12 years old.
My reply is exactly the same down to the age! ('cept for being first) The innocence of those days will never be forgotten and never come again.
@@RichardRitenour0522 привет из России... Я в 80-х покупал их винил. Правда считаю их подрожателеми Deep Purple
You were 🎵 commenting when you should've been listening 🎶
@@vladimiraannin7586 Они очень похожи, вероятно, они были вдохновлены ими.
@@WillieWeedI posted after I listened.
Great classic 70's rock. It was a great time to be alive
The best decade of music 👍
My God this brings back so many great memories!! These guys were great,all of them.....51 years have passed now and their music is still relevant today.
Everything they wrote was beautiful, inspirational & made you fall in love with Rock & Roll. “ The Wizard” is still a song that touches the soul.
The Wizard is Uriah Heep Genius!!!
Gary Thain...most melodic rock bassist ever. RIP.
An extraordinary New Zealand bassist, great style
Grande baixista - sp - brazil 👏🏾✌🏾🎸
Easy Livin'.... One of the toughest rock bass lines ever.
Gary Thain s bass lines were crazy good and tough
Gary could have filled John Paul Jones shoes!
Is anyone else still listening to this in 2024?✌
Of Course. The music of Today is just not as good.
Обязательно слушает. Пока мы живы
I still listen to 70 music 🎶 lots of bands to mention. Humble pie.
ABSOLUTELY!!! Uriah Hero is still touring and they just put out a new album
Наверное это самый лучший состав группы. Классика Хард-рока
Criminally underrated band !! Specially in the USA !!
Overrated. Only Salisbury lp offers anything new or novel.
Yes, apparently they only bought Led Zeppelin
Along with UFO, Nazareth and April Wine
@@Moment-14 UFO with Michael Schenker is also criminally underrated in the USA !
@@lucalone Thank you for the reply. Yes they are. The older I get, the more I recognize how the US falls short and is backwards in many ways... music recognition is certainly one of this.
I miss when Classic Rock stations would play songs like this. Now Classic Rock is music from the 90s.
St. Louis radio station KSHE has a digital side channel that I just recently started checking out. It has a wide range of late '60s-and-up songs: I heard Strawbs today; Renaissance - and an obscure Deep Purple cut Friday, among others. I think it can be streamed online - if not geo-fenced.
Yeah. Now they're calling this oldies music. PLEASE!!!
Ha ! Then try some , " I'm Just a Singer in a Rock and Roll Band " by the Moody Blues ! That'll cure ya ' !
Not where I live.
Now there aren't enough people who want to hear this stuff on the radio.
Uriah Heep, Grand Funk RR and Foghat-- what a show!! 1974 or 1975. Norfolk, VA
I bet it was About same year I saw Foghat Charlie Bs Open air concerts Seneca S.C
The classic lineup of Uriah Heep.🎶🎼🎸🎸🎤🎹🥁🎼🎶🎵
The VERY BEST LINEUP 🎉🎉🎉
@@AudiophileTommyI also agree.
yessss ! saw them live in 1971 on their promotion tour for the new "Look at yourself" album.
@@jogischulz2576do you remember the location? I might have material to send you from that concert you saw in 1971 (ticket stub, photos, review etc).
NO! The BEST LINE UP!!!! 😄
only Mick Box remains of this great band and he is still out there with Heep doing his thing.
Saw them about 6 months ago with Saxon. I did not expect much but was blown away! They were unreal! if you can, GO!
R.I.P. Byron, Lawton, Hensley, Thain, Bolder, Wetton, Napier, Kerslake🙏
Many people died in this band 😪
😮 Wow, that makes me feel real OLD! Puts it all into perspective, eh? 😿
@@christiancazabonne No one is immortal. Only the music
Murieron todos solo Mike Box vivo el guitarrista. Creo yo
Yes, Rest In Peace! What chemistry!
What a set of pipes! One of the greatest rock vocalists ever. Loved the Heep!👍🎸🥁
I can remember delivering news papers as a kid and listening to this on my transistor radio from Radio Shack.
Finally I'm watching this again, it wasnt a dream
So cool that Kerslake would go down in history as Ozzy's drummer for his first two super iconic solo albums 🤘🏻😆🤘🏻
Awesome rhythm section with Lee Kerslake and Bob Daisley on bass
Holy cow. This was exactly the moment that made me grow my hair and buy a guitar. Man, I am growing pimples watching this. What a memory!! Thanks.
Growing pimples cracked me up!! Don’t forget the Clearasil ointment and keep on rockin’ that 🎸!!
Well if u still have hair on the top of yet head ur allowed 😅
Pure, Kick A$$ Rock & Roll!!!!!! Thank you Uriah Heep and Midnight Special!
It must have been great. Great musicians concentrating on their playing and a stage small enough to see them w/o huge monitors. And to be able to sit and enjoy the music…perfect.
and they actually played instruments!
In some ways it definitely was (or is, if you buy the block universe model). This is not the best UH song for sure, but a not bad performance. Easy Living is a much better song.
The thing about this time is that while the clothes and hair seem wack by today's standards - of course they didn't when you were living through (those times).
There are countless musicians still performing exactly this way all over the country. Get out of your house and go support them!
@@scottlarson1548Definitely True 💯% Agree! I went to downtown Nashville, Tennessee over Thanksgiving and was dancing outside along the sidewalks, live music was pouring out of every restaurant/bar, with doors & windows wide open. What a fantastic experience & nothing like I thought it would be, now I want to go back!!
Awesome live performance
Such a phenomenal band. As a bassist myself Gary Thain was one of the best out there. Great songwriting great vocals great look...when bands looked like bands.
@@joemartucci4786 modeled my bass playing after him as well. He and Mel Shachner of Grand Funk were my favorites. John Entwistle also. Great years of bassists
seriously underrated band!
yes, at least 2.7 gigapliks low
Not back in the early 70's
I bought that album for around $3.50 because of the album cover. What a find! Did it with several bands back then, Strawbs, From the witchwoods for another
60’s and 70’s music was such a great time to be alive how I miss those years
Me too
I miss the fact that tickets were $15 to$20.00.😢
@@michaelheft3250
Cheaper than that. Plus all the free concerts are the old Navy Pier in Chicago..
Thsoe years 😢
Just so good. Saw these guys February 1976 in West Germany, they were great. Ken Hensley, on fire.
Absolutely some of the best music then and now
FIrst rock act I saw live as an opening act for KISS at Cobo Hall, Detroit, 1977.
No light shows, fireworks, blinging bracelets,cast of dozens. Just 5 guys with incredible talent. Miss that time.
Saw them open with this song at a concert in St. Petersburg in 1974. Fog on the stage, lights down, and then you hear the opening chords, then Byron, and then it was full game on. Will never forget it. They wrapped it up with that great rock 'n roll medley with Blue Suede Shoes and At The Hop.
The harmonies ! A Heep concert was a thing o beauty
Thanks Midnight Special for sharing! Awesome performance from the UH guys! ❤
I first heard this song on a Warner Brothers loss leader album called "Heavy Metal" and fell in love ❤. I got to see them open for KISS in 77, Stealin was their encore. After that KISS looked like they were mailing in their show, they quit during Beth, and a riot ensued. Heep owned that night
I had that too. Weird that it had Ramblin' Man on it, but still 😆
😂Uriah opening for kiss !
The year before , Kiss opened for UH. I was at the 76 and 77 shows.
@reverendtos4271 me as well k- tel records I believe, was also a double album I think ,paranoid, Frankenstein so many hits on that one record that open and expanded my musical experience.
I also have that Warner bros compilation double album..it got me into alot of good music..that was a great album..it was also the first time I heard yes,starship trooper live..and it still gives me chills to this day..
One word to describe this song........GOOSEBUMPS!!!
72 y.o. still rocking!! Saw a lot of these bands live. Man, what a time to be young.
your so lucky. was. to young lol in australia
The 70's on full display here. Gawd how I miss this time in my life. And what a wonderful awesome experience only those that were alive at the time could appreciate.
I have a copy of Sweet Freedom autographed by the whole band, courtesy of Mick Box. He and I both come from the same part of East London (Walthamstow) and I worked as a teenager in Sainsburys with the mum of a school friend of his. She had a word with Mick and the album duly arrived! A treasured possession still, over 50 years later. Sad to think that of the guys in this clip only Mick is still with us…..
I love the fact that all performances on The Midnight Special were live and not lip-synced like American Bandstand.
Bring The Midnight Special back along with everyone alive who performed on the show!
One of my favorite Uriah Heep
songs! David Byron was such a
terrific vocalist!!
I'm 68 and still rocking 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
I'm 57 and lovin this!
66 and still rockin' as well!!!🎸
About to turn 69. Our music was so good that people are still rocking to it.
Prime example why the Midnight Special is so popular. This is why people stayed home and turned on their tv 📺 sets to watch these amazing groups. This is good times and memories.
Magicians Birthday is one of the great rock albums. Heep rocked.
Amazing singer
This song will always be great! And,this lineup, on the Midnight Special is classic!
I love Uriah Heep
Great band! I am 67 years old and still listening to the 70s music!
i,m 70 and still can't get my head out of 60s/ 70s music good times
69 here and still listening to all these bands from the 70’s. Love Uriah Heep and the whole lineup.
@@LynMartinGilbert69 here and listening to all these!
Old school music 🎶 🎵
I’m 66 and nothing today Well, ever even come close to this kind of great music
I was blessed to be in an era when the best music ruled.🎸🤘
I graduated in 76 rock ‘n’ roll ruled
Killer performance. Great song.
Uriah Heep…one of the best live rock and roll bands! Their 1973 Live album is unreal!
I'm still listening to the old 70s and 80s Rock & Roll and just turned 66 years old..Music will never be the same again 😢😢.
m 2
I remember the 70's very well.The music is still the best...
Same age from Detroit, the home of rock and roll
Sad that everyone is dead here but Mick 😞
What a beautiful band!
Take a close look at the album cover of SWEET FREEDOM. Do you notice that the four late members died in the exact sequence in which they are shown? Gary, Dave, Lee and Ken. Rock on, Mick!
The favourite band of my youth!
@@achimpfefferkorn3019damn that is scary…
That’s Rock n Roll my friends.
Grew up on the mighty Heap! Great memories! Thanks.🎶
Oh man I remember listening to this in 1973 driving my 62 impala with an eight track stereo just cracked and Groovin
This was truly an amazing band. All supremely talented and David Byron was a great singer and very charismatic front man. I saw them right around this time opening for Emerson Lake and Palmer when ELP was at the peak of their Brain Salad Surgery era. Remember when you could see a show and sometimes have two or three bands that were all headliners in one night. Wow. Glad I was a teenager at that time. We may not have been the Greatest Generation, but we were sure as fuck the Luckiest Generation. Hey, that would make a good book.
that was an incredibly talent group on that stage, RIP Lee, David, Gary and Ken...keep rockin Mick.
RIP the original lineup
These guys are so underrated. They should be in the Hall of Fame.
Saw them in Hollywood fla still listening 2024
I hope there will be more songs from this show, I need it
Glad I got to see these guys live back in the '70s!
Great song. So lucky to be young then.
If only kids today knew what it was like, right??!!!
I was blessed with older brothers that turned me on to this music when I was young! Thank you to my brothers!!
The music from the late 60’s & early 70’s were the best for rock!✌️❤🤟🔥
what is called music now is throw away garbage. It all sounds the same. There is no personality to new music. Excuse me I just had to barf thinking about it.
I concur
Nobody could deliver words like David Byron, amazing footage, just wish there was more in existence.
Am 66 now. We got to listen to and see all the cool bands growing up. Badass tune here.
Saw Heep 2times with Blue Oyster Cult, once with Jethro Tull, and once with the current lineup. One of my favorite bands
Get to see Fox and Heep this month, been waiting a long time for this one!
One of the best live versions of this song that I have heard, video or vinyl. (:
Have always been a fan!!
Thank goodness for these Midnight Special uploads! So much clarity of vision and sound. THANK YOU! The mighty Uriah Heep just as they were peaking in that 1972/73 period. How cool does Hensley look behind that Hammond? His songwriting really made that band.
Saw Uriah Heep live twice in early 70's. Hard to believe Mick Box is the only surviving member. Outstanding band.
It must be a special kind of burden as the last man standing, but Mick comes off as such a humble guy grateful for what he has gotten to do over all these decades, and he deserves credit for still doing it as someone who left his youth way behind him.
It doesn't get any better than URIAH HEEP!!!they are one of the BEST!!
Gary Thain was a master at bass
THE BEST!! Ever!!
Takes me back to my teenage years. Absolutely fantastic times, being able to appreciated Uriah Heep, partying and feeling the new found freedoms of late adolescence.
Got to see them open twice in the Early Eighties in Seattle Washington, April Wine and Def Leppard 📻🎚️ Love to see these videos, what a band!!
I
Saw these guys in February 1973. It was a great concert!
A phenomenal year for music....1973...... also 1974...lol
Thank you for this great Music Moment !! Greetings from Schleswig Holstein !! Germany !!
Meine Band der 70 er. Es war besonders, sich eine Scheibe zu kaufen, um sich dann ins Zimmer zu verkriechen, um diese Musik zu inhalieren. Diese Band hat mir in den jungen Jahren soviel gegeben. RIP Gary, David, Ken und Lee. Never forget these days...
Uriah Heeps hits were awesome, saw them at the RKO Orphan Theatre in Davenport, Ia back in 72 or 73.
I love Uriah Heep.
Can’t take my eyes off of the band members, they’re so darn entertaining and sound great, Whew! What a Song! 🎶 Ahh- Ahh- Ahh- 🎶
They played this when they opened for Kiss at the Assembly Center in 1977, it was their encore, after that Kiss looked flat, Kiss stopped the concert during Beth, I guess they couldn't take being upstaged. Riot began shortly after that.😂
Haha, Poor Kiss being deflated! Crazy about a riot too! Wish I’d gone to see Uriah, never cared for Kiss all too much, the Assembly Center was the place to be for huge concerts, sweet memories made there.
@@KittyGrizGriz so true!
Most underrated band of the 70's IMO!! 💞😎🤘✌
Man, these sleek jungle cats of the 70s!
URIAH HEEP LIVE is one of my favorite albums ever, with several brilliant songs; Easy Living, July Morning, Sunrise, Sweet Loraine, etc etc! I can't believe how underrated Uriah Heep are!?!
I was thirteen when i got into this! 53 years ago. Still GOOD!
Seminal British rock band that influenced SO many other acts. Incredible musicians and always a great show live. Some of the best rock music made in the early and mid 70’s. RIP lads - sadly all original members have passed except Mick Box (keep shreddin’ Mick!)
Super quality for a 1973 production! Everything live! Sadly only one member of this line-up is still living, but that one is still active on the road: Mick Box and Uriah Heep. Incredible!
One of my all time favorites ever since 73 and yeah had the cassette tape
One of my favorite songs of all time
The Heep are one of my favorite bands!
Omg they were great live. Super memory..
This musician made my adolescence a great memory
Born in 62…………………….. WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Me too, and couldn’t agree more!!!
Born in 55 , 70’s were the greatest of times!
Born in 52 and loved this music . Seen many of these bands live
Wow they were amazing live! Sound as good as the album.
Craig Powerplay 8-Track, Jenson 6x9s in the rear deck, going fast in my 69’ Z. Loved the 70s.
68 Dodge Coronet 4, Jenson 4 ways in the rear. 2 , 3 ways in the front!
2 IDI , 100 watt power boosters.
One of our favorite songs to play at our high school parties, 1976 rocked
One of the truly great opening lines ever 🤪
Whoa!! I haven't heard this in 33 yrs!
Yes dude we still listen to this in 2024 kick ass
July Morning 😂
@@Fat12219 eat some more food dude