Gypsy (Uriah Heep song) band's first compilation album, "The Best of Uriah Heep", and on two live albums, 1973's "Uriah Heep Live" and the later "Live in Armenia". The song is structured with an intro, outro and three verses with no chorus, and uses only four chords: Cm, G#, G and C#-C. The song was covered by American noise rock band godheadSilo in 1996, appearing on their self-titled "GodheadSilo" 7" EP. 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.
Heavy metal music of Dick Dale, including "Let's Go Trippin'" (1961) and "Misirlou" (1962); and The Kingsmen's version of "Louie Louie" (1963) which made it a garage rock standard. However, the genre's direct lineage begins in the mid-1960s. American blues music was a major influence on the early British rockers of the era. Bands like The Rolling Stones and The Yardbirds developed blues rock by recording covers of classic blues songs, often speeding up the tempos. As they experimented with the music, the UK blues-based bands—and the U.S. acts they influenced in turn—developed what would become the hallmarks of heavy metal, in particular,