Gary Thain

Gary Thain
David Byron
David Byron was lead singer and Gary Thain bass player for “Uriah Heep” (named after a Charles Dickens character in “Tales of Two Cities”) , who enjoyed their biggest success in the early seventies. In 1972 “Uriah Heep” released “Demons and Wizards” which contained the hit “Easy Livin” and “The Wizard”. In 1973 they released “Sweet Freedom” which yielded the hit-single “Stealin”. Thain was almost electrocuted on stage in 1972 and became despondent over the group’s indifference toward the accident. Fame turned him into a uncontrollable wild man and after the heroin affected him to the point were he could no longer contribute to the band he got the boot. A shortwhile later he died from a heroin overdose on March 19th 1976 at the age of 27. David Bryon was the lead singer frontman whose dynamic vocals gave “Uriah Heep” their distinctive sound. By the end of the seventies he was so lost in the bottle he got the boot too. Afterwards he was replaced with a myriad of singers with mixed results. By late 1984 he was given 6 months to live due to liver disease. On February 28th, 1985 his brother found him dead on the floor, dead at 38.