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Uriah Heep

Reissues BMG

Reissued as picture discs, Sweet Freedom (’73) and Return To Fantasy (’75) – despite bookending 1974’s middling Wonderworld – both capture Heep line-ups (the first with bassist Gary Thain, the second with John Wetton) in fine form, but Sweet Freedom has the edge. Both 7/10

John Lee Hooker

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