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[Don Malecic]

Ya Norbert, definitely you were lucky. Europe was always much more Heep
friendly.
Heep was a very tough sell here in Canada back then , with the likes of
BTO, Guess Who, Steppenwolf, April Wine, Triumph, Rush etc topping the
charts along with the Brit heavies, Heep had no chance here. Lol.
Don

On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 2:25 PM Norbert von Fransecky <news at musikansich.de>
wrote:

> Hi Don!
>
> I must have had a lucky youth.
> Among my peers Heep was definitley the number 1 - (I'm talking about a
> time about 75 to 77) - followed by Purple. Sabbath and Zeppelin were
> well respected too, but I think Rainbow and Status Quo were even between
> theses two and Heep / Purple.
> The late 70s brought a change. Heep and Quo lost a lot of reputation
> because of the pop appeal of their releases. (Purple and Zep took "the
> easy road". They split and called it a day.) In the case of Heep
> Innocent Victim and Fallen Angel had been the reason why.
> Escpecially the singles.Most  friends didn't noticed songs like
> "Free'n'easy" one of the hardest Heep tracks by then or the great ballad
> "Illusion" at all.
>
> ... and the mighty Heep is the only one of the Hard Rock Pionieers who
> makes the 50th anniversary without any split or break. They are really
> 50!! Big up!
>
> Norbert
>
>
>
> Am 18.05.2019 um 22:26 schrieb Don Malecic:
> > Probably the few  Heep songs that could come head to head with say
> Sabbath
> > , Purple and  Zeppelin back in the seventies, in my opinion, was Look at
> > Yourself , Love Machine , Magicians birthday.
> >
> > I remember friends back in seventies who were die hard Sabbath, Purple,
> > Zeppelin fans, not so much Heep fans,  respected those songs, therefore
> > Best of Heep Volume 1 made the cut at the parties lol
> >   Tough competition back then. I remember the Girls were ok with the
> wizard,
> > that's about it .lol.
> > Don
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