Gypsy (Uriah Heep song) Gypsy (Uriah Heep song) "Gypsy" is the debut single by British progressive rock/hard rock band Uriah Heep. It is the opening track on their first album, "…Very 'Eavy …Very 'Umble", released in 1970. "Gypsy" was written by Mick Box and David Byron. The B-side of the song in most countries was "Bird of Prey", though in others, the B-sides were "Wake Up (Set Your Sights)", "Come Away Melinda" and "Lady in Black". The album version of "Gypsy" lasts more than six and half minutes, while the single version lasts less than three minutes. The song was also included on the
Heavy metal genres style and its influences after the genre had branched in the 80s into more extreme styles that were highly influenced and mixed with hardcore punk in reaction to the 80s Glam scene which had also overshadowed what the term originally meant at the time along with the emergence of the New wave of American heavy metal that led after in the early-mid 90s which made the term "heavy metal" further lose its connotation when Grunge and Alternative rock help give birth to heavy-sounding styles that would be fused with some elements of heavy metal among others which caused the genre