Customer Reviews
the first solo album on RCA that fanfared a great talent - By: Rob Sanderson, 11 May 2008 
The first solo album & a great epic championed to a rock audience by the greatly missed Alan "Fluff" Freeman. Good themes with lots of monk style cloister vocals, scary synth effects & three absolute highlights: the Jon Anderson sung "So long ago so clear" -one of the very best songs he has ever written (and I am counting all his Yes classics) & sung - beautiful. The other stand outs are a galloping synth theme which has a Ride of the Valkries type feel & the main theme itself. There is a great atmosphere throughout moving from themes of dread & joy echoing the work with his previous 60s group on the classic 666.
The only downside & the reason why I have not awarded five stars, is that there are only two track entry points on the CD, so the three tracks I have referred to above are not listed & can not be accessed separately. I am sure there were at least two-three track points on each side of the vinyl album, even if the tracks had no individual names. This CD urgently needs remastering, including new additional track entry points so that you can easily access favourite sections.
breathtaking - By: , 20 Oct 2005 
I am a fan of Vangelis & spend hours listening. Heaven & hell is uplifting, mixing classic & modern, violent & peaceful. I particularly like the drums & the discordant parts...I strongly recommend.
Even better 2nd time round - By: , 10 Mar 2005 Being of a certain age I brought this album first time round & spent hours mentally drifting & mediatating to the music. I had lost contact with it & have found my way back to it via the track 12 oclock, I'm now about to buy it again.
A Trip through the Cosmos with Vangelis - By: , 18 May 2003 I first encountered Heaven & Hell when viewing the TV Series Cosmos, written & presented by Dr Carl Sagan. The music haunted me for days until I discovered it had been written by Vangelis & was available as the album Heaven & Hell.
The haunting electronic melody takes the listener on a journey through time & space with changesin tempo which constantly keep you wondering what is coming next but at the same time, guiding you along the path, building to a crescendo with fury similar to 'Marsin The PLanets Suite. I venture to compare it to use this comparison but purists may well disagree.
An album for which to set-aside time & drift off onto a higher plain.
Superb music that you might be surprised to find you like - By: , 16 Nov 2000 Vangelis is an artist unlike others. This album seems to bridge a gap between classical & modern. Heaven & Hell is a superb musical journey that will be quite unlike most things you've heard before, but you may well find yourself converted. It is left to the listener to decide which movements describe Heaven & which Hell. Listeners of a certain age will recognise the 3rd movement as the theme from Carl Sagan's Cosmos series of 20ish years ago. My only slight complaint is that on the vinyl version, the song (with Jon Anderson as vocalist) is placedin the middle of the main theme, but this is not enough to cause me to award any fewer that 5 stars.
