I just love John Lawton’s voice and songs. Will always be missed.

Such a great bluesy type voice. Dio said John was one of his favorite singers. Talk about a compliment! I also like what he did with Lucifers Friend.

R.I.P. John Lawton, Lee Kerslake, Ken Hensley, Trevor Bolder, David Byron & Gary Thain

John Lawton, you were the best and your "come back to me" will always be remembered.

He was amazing singer.😢

An amazing singer, performer and person, Heep were very fortunate to have John for three albums and to always be in the Heep family, he is sadly missed….

John loves Bulgaria so much.R.I.P John Bulgaria loves you too. Thank you for all!

Gerry Bron sounds like a very bitter man. Snide comments like his don’t belong in a tribute to an amazing talent like John Lawton’s

How on earth did I ever miss these guys? I was in my early 20s when this was kicking off and their music and virtuosity, was exactly what I was about. Absolutely superb band by any standards.

John Lawton - замечательный хард роковый вокалист, обладающий по истине бесподобным голосом с шикарным диапазоном, прекрасным тембром и мощью . Слушая произведения Uriah Heep, восхищаешься насколько гармонично сочетается инструментал с вокальными партиями в его исполнении! Обожаю этого исполнителя и преклоняюсь перед его талантом.

Mr John Lawton is a great singer on his own right, just as David Byron... Second classical period of Uriah Heep is with him behind the mic!

John Lawton was the best of the good singers Heep had, and one of the best singers ever over all. Listen to what he does in Lucifer's Friend.

I first heard John Lawton on the Fallen Angels record, which I got as a sort of "random" record as part of some cut-price deal package from a record club in the mid-80's. Before that, I'd sort of inherited some of my 8 year older uncle's Uriah Heep (David Byron era) records by way of my aunt, his youngest sister. I really loved Fallen Angels, and then got Firefly when all those "Nice Price" records started coming out in the later half of the 80s. I only discovered Innocent Victim a decade or so ago, but by then I'd already discovered so much new music on my own decades earlier, that the new-fangled internet took a while to bring up this "lost" record (for me). John Lawton, such a lovely rock voice! Unfortunately he arrived when musical talent started to become less important than visual appearance and flamboyancy when performing... Still, one of my enduring all-time favourite rock singers of all time!

Fantastic singer

John Lawton was massively under-rated.

Lovely to see John Lawton and Bernie Shaw sharing the stage at 22 minutes ❤

Fantastic, versatile voice!

Юрай Хип, это ребята которые показали что хард рок это искуство и наиболее убедительно это прозвучало именно через голос Джона Лоутона! Ни бизнес, ни шоу, а именно искуство! Спасибо Вам ребята из Юрай Хип!!! Вы в музыке на всегда!!!

This man should be more known by rock fans...he sang at his best for heep, the problem was the lack of really good songs

Uriah comes back with great vocals, great songs

Tremendous singer with a huge and powerful voice .... Saw him with Heep at Newcastle City Hall ( UK ) in 1978 and 1979 ( Innocent Victim and Fallen Angel tours ) .

Wherever you are John, you have to know that you did a really good work with Uriah Heep ! I loved (and still love) your voice and melody. That's why I do not understand Gerry Bron claiming it's the wrong choice as a singer for Heep.

What a voice. Remarkable

Awesome singer, any band would have been fortunate to have him in

Conquest makes a case for itself. Played it all the way through afew weeks back and it's melodic and the songs are great. I missed John Lawton, though - his presence and voice would have competed it.

I found Gerry Bron to be a misery arse and not in step with the band. This band is my longest-running collection of inspiring heroes. Long live Uriah Heep.

Uriah Heep sempre teve grandes vocalistas e Jonh Lawton foi um dos melhores do U.H .

Can’t believe you’re gone😢

BIG VOICE! So sorry he left us

Gerry Bron cracks me up lol. Bitter to the very end.

I miss Ken Hensley. He wrote all the great Heep hits. He also wrote many great Christ centered songs that rocked. He was never afraid to share his belief and trust in Christ. He's in heaven now with the ultimate front man.

Free n' Easy is one of my favorites from Heep. That whole album should have kicked ass like this song.

Gerry Bron was being extremely unkind with his comments about John. I think he misses a front man who's drunk all the time

Firefly and Fallen Angel are far and away my favorite Uriah Heep albums...and Lawton much preferred on vocals - really awesome voice in my opinion.

I want Wise Man played at my funeral.

Spoiler: Great bands like Uriah Heep would be better off without guys like Gerry Bron

As a almost complete outsider, I’d say Lawton is the better singer.

"So long easy rider..." R.I.P. 😪

Thank God UH didn't listen the disappointed critics and went their way. Now we have three brilliant albums with another singer. It's expected from Motorhead to have 23 sound the same albums but from UH we want some variations and evolution and they still Rock!

When he wore that leather, he was definitely the Hard Rock Elvis!

This is a great band never heard them budgie are like this deserved more attention the record company won't promote you if won't be a product for them

The best thing about about fallen Angel is the awesome album cover artwork.

I was aware of Heap as a Metalhead since the early eighties, but only being a child of Mt/v and an American, I was just too young. I do remember reading about them in some magazines like Circus. The first time I heard a Heap song was through W.A.S.P and Blackie Lawless was singing it. Much later on through KZfaq, I saw the original song and was blown away. They should have hired Blackie, could you imagine that. My final thought on Uriah Heap is they were just too Pop oriented for my metal taste. The song I'm talking about is Easy Living, my favorite song by this group.

Enjoyed that. A good watch.

I wonder if Gerry Bron had ever said one positive thing in his life? Hasn't got a nice thing to say about anyone!

👍After David Byron,Mr.Lawton was also Fantastic, coming out of Lucifer's Friend,the Band he was in, & Peter Goal by as another Uriah Heep Great Singer!🇬🇧🙏✌️😎✌️❤️

Great singer yes but not the same anymore. Everything I liked about Uriah Heep was gone. They lost me at this point. Abominog album brought me back.

Interesting documentary… I saw them a few times shortly after Dave Byron left (I always thought he was a great frontman) and my favorite. Boy that Mr. Bron doesn’t mince any words much 🥴

Lucifer’s Friend was awesome

Actually I have NO memory of Uriah Heep after David Byron. That would be like replacing Roger Daltrey or Robert Plant.....

I’m not going to lie I stop buying heep albums after magicians birthday anything after that I didn’t care for and I still don’t BUT I did see them open for rainbow in 77 and they were FUCKEN GREAT Mick Box stole the show 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

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No Uriah Heep without Ken Hensley!!

Saw him with Heep in June '77.

David Byron is still the best. I know he is singing up in heaven. July Morning...

What is the deal with gerry bron? It seems like he thinks the band was shitty on every album except on demons and wizards.

Lucifer's Friend, great stuff as well

I knew I recognized Lawton's name from somewhere. He sang for Zar in the 80s.

There is only David Byron . The rest are a shadow of genius !!!

i must say i enjoy Firefly & Sympathy

David Byron was goed Maar John Lawton ook. Heb ze diverse malen live gezien.

hiprocrites slagging off john lawton he was a far better singer than byron and funny to even if he looked like sid sexist from viz comic and his funny make up dont matter i found byron boring lawton gave a bertter image and sound

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Free me wss the perfectvsong for Lawton but its correct that heep.los the mystical feel.after david and ken.

28:40 Where can I watch this video?😮

I was done with Heep after Wonderworld, wouldn't pick them up again, briefly, till Abominog. Picked them up again with Awaken the Sleeper, been on board since!

SHAME on Encyclopaedia Metallum, the Metal Archives, for the gross mistake of ignoring Uriah Heep, and they should only know it, the grammarcommies they are...

The last singer is a Glenn Hughes sound and look alike.

When I first heard 'Qonquest' as 19 year old, I conluded recruting John Schloman singin' for Heep was terrible, but by repeatdetly listening 'Qonquest' after 33 years, I find the album growing better and better. To be completely honest: I consider Schloman as a better singer for Heep than Lawton ever was.

Why is Gerry Bron always so darn negative.. he NEVER has anything positive to say about anyone ever. Wow!

Sloman was not good in this band and that is a major understatement, he was always trying to be a vocal gymnast from what I can see and it sounds like crap

The Les Humphries Singer

I appreciate Brons' candor (what he really thinks) but geez did he like anything? Even saying about breaking Lawton in: "I don't know why we bothered." It's like he's determined not to sugarcoat anything. Very critical of many members of the band. But even a couple members had a rather ambiguous attitude. Saying I'm effect,"It's a pretty good album...but.... it's not very good." But oh well. Appreciate everyones' insight.

*R.I.P. Uriah Heep* *1969 - 1976*

He left the band in 1979

59:36 John Norum was probably at the Concert and thought to himself, I want to do that kind of Shit too. After that he founded "Europe".

This is not a band to be in if you want to be very old .

NONE of these albums did well in the U.S., where Heep was slowly forgotten - they became a Euro-band, basically. There were some good tunes on both Firefly and Innocent Victim, but as albums, there was just too much fat.

Whatever happened to original bass guitar player Paul Newton?

Gerry Bron is always so negative when talking about Uriah Heep! How could they have been working together for years???

Free Me did not become a hit in South Africa as a anti-apartheid song. People should stop talking nonsense and Nelson Mandela wasn't a saint, like the media always wants to portray him.

Sloman was awful I'm sad to say it's unintelligible.

MY fav singer…….better voice than Byron

Lawton was a sweet guy who had indeed some impossible big boots to fill ; one can't blame the Heep organisation going for him due to his great performance on Roger Glover's "Butterfly Ball".( or was it Dio ?) Sadly though it turned out to be a typical example of mid 70's stagnation, which just screamed "where are the Sex Pistols"....

Look at YES 18 years after this - they’re not only a franchise band with a clone of Jon Anderson , they sound laboured and pretty terrible in my opinion. 😮

Was he wearin' a wig in 2000s?

I cant stand this mark of Uriah Heep. This was pop music.

I do not get the shitting on John Lawton. His voice was just as good as Byron, even though different. But still, he could sing the old songs wonderfully. Criticising his looks seem a low and stupid move to me, but if we really want to go down that road, I do not really think that Byron's image was really much better. He looked like a wannabe '70s porn actor!

Fuck cette musique de David by devid bhhyy

Great singer but not a great frontman. After Byron left, Heep was going down... the magic was gone.

Lucifer's Friend YES,,,, Uriah Heep ...... Not even close ... But I guess they wanted a new sound. And I can respect that and Move on like they did-:) 86 Comments