This is the 2nd album from british hard rockers Uriah Heep. From the beginning, like on this album, they put in some progressiveness as well as jazz-fusion in their music. This is partly why I like Uriah Heep's music so much. But they also made some really really good pure rock'n'roll-hardrock and both can be heard on this album. The 16-minute title track includes a 24-piece orchestra and this is one of the best collaborations between rock and orchestra I have heard! The name Salisbury comes from a military training field in England, that's why there's a tank on the cover. Personally I don't understand why they used that photo. The album reached nr. 1 in Finland and nr. 103 in U.S.A

The drummer Keith Baker had played on one single track on the last album but now got the full time job. He was also the original drummer for Supertramp in 1969-1970 (Supertramp were then called Daddy).

1)Bird of prey (7,5) Quite progressive song with many elements and a nice change of tempo at the end but Byron's singing here and there sounds strained to say at least...

2)The park (8,5) Very sweet and mellow song with great sensitive vocals. Very good!

3)Time to live (8,5) Great powerful short song.

4)Lady in black (8,0) Good melodic acoustic sing-a-long tune. A little too repetitive.

5)High pristess (7,5) A good hard rocker.

6)Salisbury (9,5) 16 minutes very progressive song that starts with organ and an orchestra, then hardrocking and then a long bass- and drumdriven jazzy part and the guitarsolo at the end is mighty and the orchestra, organ and background vocals melts together really nice. A trememdeous song!

Score: 8,25

David Byron (David Garrick) -vocals (1947-1985)

Mick Box-guitars (b.1947)

Paul Newton-bass (b.1945)

Keith Baker-drums (b.1948)

Ken Hensley-organ, piano and guitars (b.1945)

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