Sometimes the course of one’s life can be changed by an offhand comment. For Ken Hensley, Uriah Heep’s keyboard player and guitarist throughout the 70s, that moment came during a taxi ride home after a marathon three-day studio session.
“We’d been rushing to finish an album before we left to go on tour,” Hensley told Classic Rock in 2018. “We were having a conversation, and someone mentioned how people think we have such an easy life, how we just show up, collect the dollars and go home. The words ‘easy life’ stuck in my head. When the taxi dropped me off at my flat, I went in, put the kettle on, sat down at the piano, and within about ten minutes that song was finished.”
