Artist: Ken Hensley
Genre(s):
Rock
Rock: Hard-Rock
Discography:
Blood on the Highway
Year: 2007
Tracks: 14
The Wizard's Diary. Volume One
Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
Last Dance
Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
Running Blind
Year: 2002
Tracks: 13
A Glimpse Of Glory
Year: 1999
Tracks: 12
From Time to Time
Year: 1994
Tracks: 16
Free Spirit
Year: 1981
Tracks: 10
Eager To Please
Year: 1975
Tracks: 11
Proud Words On A Dusty Shelf
Year: 1973
Tracks: 10
Best-known for his term of office with long-running clayey alloy act Uriah Heep, Ken Hensley was born in Hertforshire, England, on August 24, 1945. During the mid-'60s, he formed the psychedelic megrims jazz band the Gods with Greg Lake (later of Emerson, Lake & Palmer) and future Rolling Stone Mick Taylor, although only Hensley remained from the original batting order by the 1968 liberation of their debut album Genesis. Upon issuing To Samuel a Son the undermentioned year, the dance band added Cliff Bennett and rechristened themselves Toe Fat. A couple of John Peel-produced LPs followed before Toe Fat split and in 1970, Hensley signed on to bring guitar and keyboards in Spice, before long renamed Uriah Heep in laurels of the Charles Dickens character. Despite near-unanimous decisive animosity, Uriah Heep earned a truehearted following in laborious rock circles and in 1973, Hensley recorded his solo debut, Proud Words on a Dusty Shelf, with the assistance of bandmates Lee Kerslake and Gary Thain. Eager to Please followed deuce days by and by and subsequently complementary Uriah Heep's 1978 record album, Fallen Angel, Hensley left the group to wax a full-time solo career, issue Disengage Spirit in 1981. The twelvemonth following he coupled the Florida hard rock 'n' roll outfit Blackfoot, left over with the group until they disbanded in 1984. Hensley then colonized into semi-retirement, collection his unreleased material on the 1994 collection From Time to Time.
