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This article is about the Uriah Heep album. For the Gov't Mule album, see High & Mighty.
"Make A Little Love" Released: October 1976 (Norway)
High and Mighty is the ninth studio album by English rock band Uriah Heep, released in May 1976 by Bronze Records in the UK and Warner Bros. Records in the US. High and Mighty was the last Uriah Heep album to feature bassist John Wetton, and vocalist and founding member David Byron who was fired later that year due to his troubles with alcohol and differences with band priorities.
The album was not well received, as stylistically it veered from their earlier fusion of progressive rock and heavy rock into more mainstream territory, lacking the group's signature lengthy compositions and fantastical, mythically orientated lyrical subject matter. "Several of the songs find the band flirting with pop elements in a way that doesn't complement their hard rocking style", said Donald A. Guarisco in his retrospective AllMusic review. He added that High and Mighty "shows flashes of the group's old firepower, but is ultimately sunk by a combination of unfocused experimentation and uneven songwriting". Martin Popoff called the album "effeminate, illogical, overblown, grasping for straws", citing only the song "One Way or Another" as "promising" and the rest a squandering of "the band's flickering talents".
Track listing
All tracks are written by Ken Hensley, except where noted
"Name of the Game" (previously unreleased version)
4:59
12.
"Sundown" (alternate version)
3:20
Total length:
47:39
2004 Deluxe Edition bonus tracks
No.
Title
Writer(s)
Length
11.
"Name of the Game" (previously unreleased version)
4:59
12.
"Sundown" (alternate version)
3:20
13.
"Weep in Silence" (previously unreleased extended version)
Hensley, Wetton
7:46
14.
"Name of the Game" (demo)
3:21
15.
"Does Anything Matter" (demo "Woman of the World" early version)
3:20
16.
"I Close My Eyes" (demo)
4:18
17.
"Take Care" (demo "Footprints in the Snow" early version)
2:57
18.
"Can't Keep a Good Band Down" (edited version)
3:09
Total length:
72:30
Personnel
Uriah Heep
David Byron – lead vocals (except "One Way or Another")
Mick Box – lead guitar, acoustic guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar
Ken Hensley – organ, acoustic and electric piano, Moog synthesizer, tubular bells, acoustic, electric 12-string and slide guitars, pedal steel guitar, backing vocals, co-lead vocals on "One Way or Another"
Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. p. 166. ISBN978-951-1-21053-5.
