So this week it was Ken Hensley, keyboardist and chief songwriter for the metal band Uriah Heep, who has died.

I have featured the band twice before with Rain, which Hensley wrote, and Come Away Melinda.

They never troubled the British charts much (a no 76 and a no 85, both in 1983) but had more success in Germany.

This song was their first and biggest hit in the US. More representative of their œuvre I would say.

Uriah Heep: Easy Livin’

Kenneth William David (Ken) Hensley: 24/8/1945 – 4/11/2020. So it goes.

Even though it breaks the artificial rules of this category by being an album track, given the weather over recent months it somehow seems appropriate.

I wasn’t much into Uriah Heep (not at all to be honest) but a friend of my youth was. Rain was atypical of Uriah Heep’s output; as I recall they were mostly heavy rather than balladeers. This song is the only one of theirs I can remember, though.

A somewhat literal video accompanies it.

Uriah Heep: Rain