The Lansdowne Tapes

The Lansdowne Tapes is a compilation album by the British rock band Uriah Heep and released in 1993.

About half of the recordings belong to a band called Spice, which featured Mick Box, David Garrick — who later changed his name to David Byron — Paul Newton and Alex Napier; they were signed to Gerry Bron's company Hit Record Productions on 1 August 1969.

Originally intended for an album release, some of the songs were shelved when Ken Hensley became a member of the band in February 1970.

His influence gave them a distinctive sound which was marked with a name change to Uriah Heep, in time for their first album ...Very 'Eavy ...Very 'Umble scheduled for May 1970 release.

The rest of the album features material taped by the embryonic Uriah Heep line-ups.