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[Concert: Uriah Heep.
Special Guest: John Lawton] | XVI Festival Jazz San Javier |
Date: Friday, July 12
Time: 21:30 h.
Scenario: Almansa Park Auditorium, San Javier
Input: 26euros
Jazz San Javier hosts one of the few concerts that the legendary rock band Uriah Heep offered in Europe with special guest John Lawton
San Javier Jazz on its agenda for Friday July 12 one of the legendary bands of the '70s, Uriah Heep, a legend of progressive rock and hard rock with Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Led Zeppeling quartet form highest regard for the golden years of the Hard Rock.
The nostalgic, recent followers and fans of this band, which has never stopped spinning, also have a unique opportunity to enjoy Uriah Heep with the former singer for three years, John Lawton as a special guest, along with Bernie Shaw, Current singer and longest running in the band since joining in 1986.
John Lawton, who left the group in 1980, temporarily replaced Bernie Shaw, and now returns as a special guest in a limited number of concerts so this is a unique opportunity in which besides the classical ring of this band that is commanded by one of its founders, guitarist Mick Box.
Box calls himself these concerts as a "historic moment" for the group, with constant changes in training remains in top form, filling concerts in Europe and the United States.
Uriah Heep's 40-year career, from its inception in London in 1969, where he has recorded 23 studio albums, 14 live, and several compilations, with more than 40 million albums sold worldwide.
Albums like "Demons & Wizards" that led them to the top in 1972, or the earlier "Look at yourself" (1971), which defined its characteristic sound made them indispensable in the music scene of the time.
The constant changes in training, and his own musical evolution the band became cult during the '80s.
In the late 80 incorporates the current singer, Bernie Show, and become the first Western rock band in action, during the upcoming opening of Gorbachev in the still, Soviet Union, filling several nights the Olympic Stadium where the saw 180,000.
Already in the 90 and 2000s, returning to high levels of popularity with successful tours and albums like "The Magician's Birthday Party" in 2002, which involved precisely John Lawton, who joins the group for the occasion.
Especially welcome was the album "Celebration (Forty Years of Rock) in 2009, followed two and last works," Into the Wild "and" Live in Armenia ", both from 2011.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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