Editing Uriah Heep (band) (section)

===New members, ''Raging Silence'' and ''Different World'' (1986–1993)===
[[File:Bernie-Shaw.jpg|thumb|left|[[Bernie Shaw]] has been the singer of Uriah Heep since 1986.]]
The lineup remained unchanged from 1986 until 2007, with veteran Mick Box at the helm, Trevor Bolder on bass, Lee Kerslake on drums, vocalist Bernie Shaw and Phil Lanzon on keyboards. Their principal tour circuit has been in Germany, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Japan and Russia. In December 1987 they became the first ever Western rock band to play in the [[Soviet Union]], under [[Mikhail Gorbachev]]'s policy of [[glasnost]] (Western pop acts [[Boney&nbsp;M]], [[Cliff Richard]], [[Nitty Gritty Dirt Band]] and [[Elton John]] had already played shows there in the late 1970s during the pre-Gorbachev era).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.uriah-heep.com/newa/heepstory14.php |title=Uriah Heep. The story. 1986–2007 |website=Uriah Heep |access-date=4 July 2011}}</ref> At Moscow's [[Olympic Stadium (Moscow arena)|Olympic Stadium]] the band played ten consecutive nights to a total of 180,000 people (following a reception that Bernie Shaw remembered as being "something like Beatlemania"), which was represented in the international press as not just an achievement for Uriah Heep but a major breakthrough for Western music in general.<ref name="Larkin"/> The concerts were recorded and issued as the ''Live in Moscow'' album, which included three new tracks. Ironically, it was this behind the [[Iron Curtain]] excursion that did well to re-establish Heep's name back at home. After a series of sell-out dates in Czechoslovakia, East Berlin and Bulgaria the band returned to Britain for the [[Reading Festival]] in August 1988 and toured the UK with [[the Dogs D'Amour]].

''[[Raging Silence]]'', produced by Richard Dodd and released in May 1989, was followed by a return to the Soviet Union, concerts in Poland, [[East Berlin]], six dates in [[Brazil]] and another British tour. "The last two years have been the most enjoyable of all my time in Heep", Trevor Bolder was quoted to say at the time. The band played in the Central TV studios in [[Nottingham]] on 29 November 1989 (the film was shown as part of the Independent TV series ''Bedrock'' and a few years later it was repeated in the Cue Music series) and celebrated its 20th anniversary with a series of compilations and re-issues.<ref name="blows_14"/>

Produced by Trevor Bolder and released early in 1991, ''[[Different World (Uriah Heep album)|Different World]]'' got a mixed reception from the press (put down in ''Kerrang!'', hailed in [[Metal Hammer]]) and sold poorly. "Yet another technically sound but artistically bland recording from Uriah Heep" (according to AllMusic)<ref name="different_allmusic">{{cite web |author=Jason Anderson |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/different-world-r1186544 |title=Different World |website=AllMusic |access-date=1 January 2011}}</ref> failed to chart and marked the end of the band's contract with Legacy Records. Touring incessantly, the band issued some compilations of which ''Rarities from the Bronze Age'' and ''[[The Lansdowne Tapes]]'' (featuring previously unreleased material from the early 1970s) are considered most noteworthy. Still, the first half of the 1990s is regarded even by the Heep fans as "the wilderness years".<ref name="blows_14"/>