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        In his decade with Uriah Heep, Hensley was the primary songwriter on 13 studio albums, a live LP and several compilations. The group’s most acclaimed line-up comprised David Byron (vocals), Mick Box (guitar), Gary Thain (bass), Lee Kerslake (drums) and Hensley (mostly on the Hammond organ and sometimes on vocals). He sang on the 1971 single  Lady In Black , one of Heep’s best-known songs, and composed the following year’s  Easy Livin’ , the group’s first American hit.        He had recorded two solo albums, Proud Words on a Dusty Shelf (1973) and Eager to Please (1975) while still with Uriah Heep, and once he left the band he toured America with his own group before embarking on a three-year stint with an outfit called Blackfoot. Sessions for heavy metal bands such as W.A.S.P. and Cinderella followed, as well as a post in artist relations with a musical instrument company, St Louis Music.       In 2004 Hensley moved to a farm near Alicante in Spain, where the couple kept livest

        When Neil Peart  auditioned for Rush in 1974, his bandmates heard in him a chance to embrace their die-hard Who fandom.  Ironically, Peart's great contribution to rock drumming would turn out to be the exact aesthetic opposite of Moon's: the most precise and meticulously plotted percussion that the genre has ever seen.As Rush's high-prog ambitions flowered in the mid-to-late '70s, Peart revealed himself as both an obsessive craftsman and wildly ambitious artiste – traits that also surfaced in his fantastical lyrics – using esoteric implements such as orchestra bells, temple blocks and timpani to flesh out his baroque parts for songs such as "Xanadu" and "The Trees." As the band's music streamlined in the Eighties, through transitional masterpieces such as  Moving Pictures  and on to a more pop-oriented sound, so did Peart's playing; he began tastefully incorporating electronic percussion and looking to mainstream innovators such as St

        When Brooklyn singer Alice Clark passed away at the age of 57 in 2004 she had no idea she was being regarded as one of soul’s great unsung talents by the 90s acid jazz fraternity.       After Alice’s feisty first single –  You Got A Deal  (1968), flipped with gorgeous ballad  Say You’ll Never (Never Leave Me)  – written and produced by Billy Vera, she recorded future Northern Soul collectible  You Hit Me (Right Where It Hurt Me)  for Warners’ Seven Arts imprint.       Four years elapsed until 1972’s self-titled album for Mainstream, after which she retired to raise her grandchildren.       Whether fluttering over mid-tempo vamps, crackling her understated sassier side, or adorning heart-gripping ballads , Alice delivered with understated passion and appealing vulnerability, which may partly explain why she never thrust herself further into the spotlight. ALICE CLARK Alice Clark Mainstream,1972 https://www.sendspace.com/file/hfjrxc