Was there ever a time where you really thought about walking away from Uriah Heep?
Mick: The only time I ever thought that was around the Conquest album. I folded up the band because it wasnt working. John [Sloman] was not being accepted by the fans, and Ken [Hensley] left to go solo and found out that while he was really big in Uriah Heep, he was not so big outside of Uriah Heep. There was a lot of turmoil and I was questioning whether the spirit was still there. I was getting offers to go do a Mick Box band and do an album. It was the Heep fans who were sending me letters in those days, it wasnt emails, it was sacks full of letters. I had gone to the office to pick the mail up and I certainly didnt expect to pick up that much mail. I threw it in the car and took it home and sat there with a glass of wine and went through them all. It was amazing to me how many people wrote in and said, “You have been the landscape of my life. Please dont let Heep go away.” I sat there for awhile, probably after one glass too many, and I thought, “If I can get the right caliber of m
