Look At Yourself

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The band's third album released in July 1971, only half a year after its predecessor, "Salisbury". In reference to the album's title, the original cover art included a kind of a reflective foil mirror. Because of the surface's imperfection, the listeners saw their own distorted images. The band's photos in the booklet were also distorted. The album is generally considered to be one of the best in the band's catalogue and one of the classic albums in the history of hard rock. The two singles released from the album in North America - the title track and July Morning - are among the band's most popular songs. July Morning is a fan favourite and is considered to be one of the greatest progressive hard rock songs of the early 1970's. It is also connected to the Bulgarian hippy tradition of 'July Morning', when people from all over the country, as well as from abroad, travel to the coast of the Black Sea on June 30 and camp there to witness the first rays of sun on the 1st of July. The song, July Morning, is usually performed then at a small stage placed near the coast, sometimes by ex members of Uriah Heep - John Lawton and Ken Hensley. Just like most of Uriah Heep's discography, "Look at Yourself" was remastered and re-released in 1996 with 2 bonus tracks and released again in 2003 as an expanded deluxe edition with 7 bonus tracks. The line-up of Uriah Heep at that time consisted of: David Byron - lead vocals Ken Hensley – organ, piano, guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals Mick Box – lead guitar, acoustic guitar Paul Newton – bass guitar Ian Clarke – drums synthesizer on July Morning was played by Manfred Mann.

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