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Head First is the fifteenth studio album by English rock band Uriah Heep. It was released in 1983, on Gerry Bron's UK label Bronze Records, and would be their final album for the label.
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| Released | May 1983 [1] | |||
| Recorded | January–March 1983 | |||
| Studio | The Manor (Oxfordshire), Roundhouse (London) | |||
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| Length | 37:21 | |||
| Label | Bronze Mercury (North America) | |||
| Producer | Ashley Howe | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [2] |
| Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 8/10[3] |
The album was recorded by the line-up responsible for the previous year's Abominog, but this time with a greater proportion of the songs written by the band members. Bob Daisley left the group shortly after the album's recording to rejoin Ozzy Osbourne; on the Head First tour former Heep bassist Trevor Bolder rejoined the band, effectively replacing his replacement, and remained with the band until his death in 2013.
Though Head First was deemed to be a worthy successor to Abominog by critics such as Geoff Barton,[4] it suffered from a lack of promotion as Bronze went into liquidation the month after its release.
Video footage of the tour, from a show in New Zealand, was heavily featured on the long-form video Easy Livin': A History of Uriah Heep. In Japan only, this was also released on laserdisc.
Track listings
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "The Other Side of Midnight" | Mick Box, Bob Daisley, Peter Goalby, Lee Kerslake, John Sinclair | 3:55 |
| 2. | "Stay on Top" | Tom Jackson | 3:35 |
| 3. | "Lonely Nights" (Bryan Adams cover) | Bryan Adams, Jim Vallance | 4:07 |
| 4. | "Sweet Talk" | Box, Daisley, Goalby, Kerslake, J. Sinclair, Linda Sinclair | 3:51 |
| 5. | "Love is Blind" | Richie Zito, Joey Carbone | 3:38 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 6. | "Roll-Overture" | Box, Daisley, Goalby, J. Sinclair | 2:18 |
| 7. | "Red Lights" | Box, Daisley, Goalby, J. Sinclair | 2:57 |
| 8. | "Rollin' the Rock" | Box, Daisley, Goalby, J. Sinclair | 5:31 |
| 9. | "Straight Through the Heart" | Box, Daisley, Goalby, Kerslake, J. Sinclair | 3:39 |
| 10. | "Weekend Warriors" | Box, Daisley, Goalby, Kerslake, J. Sinclair | 3:50 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 11. | "Playing for Time" (B-side of the single "Stay on Top") | Box, Daisley, Goalby, Kerslake, J. Sinclair | 4:27 |
| 12. | "Searching" (instrumental out-take) | Box, Daisley, Goalby, Kerslake, J. Sinclair | 3:52 |
| 13. | "The Wizard" (live 1984) | Mark Clarke, Ken Hensley | 4:52 |
| Total length: | 50:32 | ||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 11. | "Playing for Time" (B-side of the single "Stay on Top") | 4:27 | |
| 12. | "Searching" (extended demo) | 4:54 | |
| 13. | "The Other Side of Midnight" (live 1984) | 4:36 | |
| 14. | "Lonely Nights" (live 1984) | 6:45 | |
| 15. | "Angel" (live 1985) | Box, Trevor Bolder, Goalby, Kerslake, J. Sinclair | 5:22 |
| Total length: | 63:25 | ||
Personnel
- Uriah Heep
- Mick Box – guitar, backing vocals
- Lee Kerslake – drums
- Bob Daisley – bass
- John Sinclair – keyboards, synthesizer, backing vocals
- Peter Goalby – vocals
- Additional musicians
- Frank Ricotti – percussion on "Roll-Overture"
- Production
- Ashley Howe – producer, engineer, mixing
- Nick Rogers – engineer, mixing on "Roll-Overture"
- Keith Nixon – assistant engineer
Singles
- "Stay on Top" was released as a single and a video was made. A double-7" gatefold edition was released. Non-album track "Playing for Time" was included.
- "Lonely Nights", a cover version of the previous year's hit by Bryan Adams, was the second single. A picture-disc 7" was released.
Charts
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References
- "Head First by Uriah Heep". genius.com. 1 May 1983. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
- Guarisco, Donald A. "Uriah Heep - Head First review". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
- Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 379. ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5.
- Head First (CD Booklet). Uriah Heep. UK: Sanctuary Records. 2004.
{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - "Offiziellecharts.de – Uriah Heep – Head First" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 22April 2018.
- "Norwegiancharts.com – Uriah Heep – Head First". Hung Medien. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
- "Uriah Heep | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
- "Uriah Heep Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
- "Uriah Heep Official Charts". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
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Head First (с англ. — «В первую очередь») — 15-й студийный альбом британской рок-группы Uriah Heep, выпущенный в 1983 году на Bronze Records в Европе, Японии и Австралии и на Mercury Records в США и Канаде. Это второй и последний альбом группы, записанный с участием басиста Боба Дейсли.Текст в блоке "Читать" взят с сайта "Википедия" и доступен по лицензии Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike; в отдельных случаях могут действовать дополнительные условия.
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