David Byron vocalist for Spice (1967–1969). Deciding that the Spice sound would require keyboards, they recruited keyboardist/guitarist/singer/songwriter Ken Hensley, who was Paul Newton's bandmate in The Gods. During this time Bron redubbed the band Uriah Heep from the Charles Dickens novel "David Copperfield". Shortly afterward the band's career really took off, first in Germany, Britain and finally the United States. In 1971 Byron also appeared on two LPs by John Schroeder. Byron was the original singer of the English rock band Uriah Heep between 1969 and 1976. David Byron sang on ten Uriah Heep albums: "Very 'eavy Very 'Umble", "Salisbury", "Look at
Heavy metal music heavy metal. The Jimi Hendrix Experience's debut album, "Are You Experienced" (1967), was also highly influential. Hendrix's virtuosic technique would be emulated by many metal guitarists and the album's most successful single, "Purple Haze", is identified by some as the first heavy metal hit. Vanilla Fudge, whose first album also came out in 1967, has been called "one of the few American links between psychedelia and what soon became heavy metal", and the band has been cited as an early American heavy metal group. On their self-titled debut album, Vanilla Fudge created "loud, heavy, slowed-down arrangements" of contemporary hit songs,