He also recorded with The Les Humphries Singers - whose Sing Sang Song was the German entrant at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1975 - plus Rebel, Zar, Gunhill, the Hensley Lawton Band, the Lawton Dunning Project and his own John Lawton Band. The news was confirmed by the band, who wrote, It is with deep regret that we share the devastating and tragic news of the. Lawton was also a member of Lucifers Friend and the Les Humphries. Former Uriah Heep vocalist John Lawton has died at the age of 74. Lawton also sang at Roger Glover's Butterfly Ball live at the Royal Albert Hall in 1975, alongside David Coverdale, Glenn Hughes and Ian Gillan. John Lawton, the singer best known for his work with Uriah Heep, died on June 29 at age 74. And Lawton filled in for Uriah Heep singer Bernie Shaw in 1995 after the latter was forced to miss two week's worth of shows with a throat problem. They broke up a year later, but reunited in 2015 for some live shows and a new album, Too Late To Hate. The news was confirmed on social media by Uriah Heep, who. It's a good way to work, I think."įollowing his departure from Uriah Heep, Lawton recorded a solo album, Heartbeat, in 1980, before rejoining Lucifer's Friend for 1982's Mean Machine. John Lawton, former singer for British rock icons Uriah Heep and German cult German rockers Lucifers Friend, has died at the age of 74. And if I need help, Mick and the guys are the first ones to step up and say, “Yeah, we'll come and do this for you.” We can't argue about that at all. "I always say, 'Once you join the Heep family, you never leave, regardless.' And I'm always there for them if they need help. Lawton parted ways with Uriah Heep in September 1979, but remained on good terms with his former bandmates. "It only probably happened in the first couple of months really of joining the band where the press were kind of like, “John Lawton who? And Lucifer's Friend who?" And so I didn't think too much about the fact that I was replacing somebody like David Byron. "After I got the phone call from Ken, I basically had to go out and buy the album, The Best of Uriah Heep, to familiarize myself with the music. "I didn't know enough about Uriah Heep before I joined," Lawton told Jeff Cramer. The Yorkshireman’s blues voice presented Heep with a raft of new possibilities, and he would record three studio albums with the band: Firefly, Innocent Victim, and Fallen Angel. Lawton joined Uriah Heep in 1976, having made his name in Germany as the frontman of cult rockers Lucifer’s Friend.
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