Equator is the 16th album by Uriah Heep, released in 1985. It marked the band's further departure into AOR style of music, which was hard to accept by most old fans. Furthermore, it lacked any serious promotion.
"Rockarama" and "Poor Little Rich Girl" were released as singles.
It was the only UH album not to be re-relased in 1997 and 2004, when the rest of their discography was offered as expanded editions. The band and Sanctuary could not reach an agreement with SONY CBS, who released the original version of Equator. Eventually, the expanded deluxe edition was released in 2010 with 4 bonus tracks.
It was the first and last album recorded by this line-up of Uriah Hee, which included:
Pete Goalby
Mick Box
Trevor Bolder
John Sinclair
Lee Kerslake
Bolder returned to the band during Head First tour, after 18 months spent in Wishbone Ash. However, after the tour concluded, Pete Goalby left the band dissatisfied with the promotion and soon John Sinclair did the same, accepting an offer to play in Ozzy Osbourne's band. The band found new keyboard player in Phil Lanzon and hired singer Stef Fontaine for some shows in the North America. However, it didn't work out with Fontaine and he was very quickly replaced by Bernie Shaw who completed the longest-serving line-up of the band (1986-2007).
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