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The Wizard (Uriah Heep song)

"The Wizard"
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Single by Uriah Heep
from the album Demons and Wizards
B-side Why
Released May 1972
Format 7"
Genre Progressive rock, folk rock
Length 2:59
Label Bronze
Mercury
Writer(s) Ken Hensley, Mark Clarke
Uriah Heep singles chronology
"Look at yourself"
(1971)
"The Wizard"
(1972)
"Easy Livin'"
(1972)

"The Wizard" is a single from rock band Uriah Heep's 1972 album Demons & Wizards and was the first single to be lifted from the album. It was composed by Mark Clarke and Ken Hensley. It is a gentle, semi-acoustic ballad whose lyrics deal with a man wandering until he meets "the Wizard of a thousand kings", a possible reference to the druid Merlin, to Gandalf, to an angel, to a bodhisattva, or even God. This song is the first Uriah Heep single which had a music video.

The song was composed by keyboardist-guitarist Ken Hensley and the band's short time bassist Mark Clarke. "The Wizard" also was the only composition that includes Clarke as a member of the band. The song charted at #34 in Germany and at #8 in Switzerland.



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