Look at Yourself (Uriah Heep album)

Look at Yourself
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 1971
RecordedJuly 1971
StudioLansdowne (London)
Genre
Length41:14
LabelBronze
ProducerGerry Bron
Uriah Heep chronology
Salisbury
(1971)
Look at Yourself
(1971)
Demons and Wizards
(1972)
Singles from Look at Yourself
  1. "Look at Yourself"
    Released: September 1971[3]
  2. "July Morning"
    Released: June 1972 (Japan)[4]

Look at Yourself is the third studio album by English rock band Uriah Heep, released in September 1971 by Bronze Records in the UK and Mercury Records in the US. It was the last Uriah Heep album to feature founding member and bassist Paul Newton.

Characterized as heavy metal and progressive rock, the album came to be viewed as a high point in the band's career and is regarded by many fans and critics as one of Uriah Heep's finest albums,[2] along with Demons and Wizards, released the following year. The title track was released as a single in various countries, followed by "July Morning" released in Japan in 1972.

The song "July Morning" was the inspiration for a Bulgarian tradition, known eponymously as July Morning or "Julaya", of gathering on the beach on the Black Sea coast on the morning of 1 July to watch the sunrise.[5]

The album was mentioned in the David Sedaris book Barrel Fever, in "Don's Story".

Look at Yourself was remastered and reissued by Castle Communications in 1996 with three bonus tracks, and again in 2003 in an expanded deluxe edition. In 2017, Sanctuary Records released a two-disc deluxe edition.

  1. ^ "Recensione Uriah Heep - Look At Yourself". www.metallized.it.
  2. ^ a b c Guarisco, Donald A. "Uriah Heep - Look at Yourself review". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
  3. ^ "Uriah Heep singles".
  4. ^ "Uriah Heep singles".
  5. ^ Krastev, Nikola (1 July 2010). "For Uriah Heep Fans In Former Soviet Bloc, One 'July Morning' Has Lasted 40 Years". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved 12 November 2018.