greatest hits
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album by British
hard rock
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band Uriah Heep, released on 12 November 2015 on their own label, Uriah Heep Records. The album contains re-recorded versions of 27 of their best known songs, recorded with the long-standing 1986-2007 lineup."URIAH HEEP - "Totally Driven"" ''Progressive Rock & Progressive Metal''. 04/30/2016
The album was originally released in 2001 with a different track order as ''Remasters: The Official Anthology'', but it went out of print quite quickly and was forgotten about. It was reissued in 2004 as ''Uriah Heep's Gold: Looking Back 1970-2001'' without the band's knowledge by a European budget label.
According to guitarist
Mick Box
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, the songs were recorded in preparation for the ''
Acoustically Driven
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Track listing
Personnel
;Uriah Heep
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Bernie Shaw
Bernard Shaw (born 15 June 1956) is a Canadian-English singer, and since 1986, the lead vocalist of British rock band Uriah Heep.
Career
At the beginning of 1970 Shaw dreamed of becoming a rock guitarist. He bought himself a Gibson SG Spec ...
– lead vocals
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Mick Box
Michael Frederick Box (born 9 June 1947) is an English musician who is the lead guitarist of rock group Uriah Heep, having previously been a member of The Stalkers and Spice, both with original Uriah Heep vocalist David Byron.Larkin, Colin (20 ...
– guitar, backing vocals
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Phil Lanzon
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Trevor Bolder
Trevor Bolder (9 June 1950 – 21 May 2013) was an English rock musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for his long association with Uriah Heep and his tenure with the Spiders from Mars, the backing band for David Bowie, a ...
– bass, backing vocals
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Lee Kerslake
Lee Gary Kerslake (16 April 1947– 19 September 2020) was an English musician, best known as the longtime drummer and backing vocalist for the rock band Uriah Heep and for his work with Ozzy Osbourne in the early 1980s.
Biography Early life a ...
– drums, backing vocals
;Additional musicians
*Melvin Duffy – pedal steel, slide guitar
*Stefan Hannigan – uilleann pipes, percussion
*Kim Chandler – flute, backing vocals
*Sarah Chi Liew, Liz Chi Yen Liew – violins
*Pauline Kirke – cello
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Saskia Tomkins Saskia Tomkins is a British musician and actress, living since 2007 in Ontario, Canada. She plays the violin, viola, cello and Nyckelharpa. She performs and records in several genres, including traditional, modern, jazz and classical music.
Early ...
– viola
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Billie Godfrey
Billie Godfrey is an English singer.
Background
Based in London and Brighton, Godfrey has been a vocalist for many artists and in her own right. She started her career as a radio DJ, playing the kind of music she would later go on to record.
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, Emma Robbins – backing vocals
;Production
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Pip Williams
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Discogs
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