![]() Clarke also sang the bridge in the song that was better suited to him than David Byron. The song featured acoustic guitar, the band’s harmonies, a mystical tale, and the whistle of a tea kettle! The idea to record the tea kettle was spontaneous in the studio and it fitted in perfectly. Clarke would also get a co-writing credit on “The Wizard”, with Hensley. The latter had been around for some time, as the band had recorded it previously, much longer as “Why -14 Minutes?”, and it would never find a place on a Heep LP, but would become perhaps the band’s most popular non-album track. With Clarke on bass the band recorded 2 tracks for a single release – “The Wizard” and “Why”. Iain Clark, who was the band’s 4th drummer and played on Look At Yourself, left the band soon after Newton, and Lee Kerslake joined. Newton was initially replaced by Colosseum bassist Mark Clarke, a friend of Hensley’s. ![]() Newton was a key figure in the band’s formation and early days, as he had played with The Gods – which featured Ken Hensley and Lee Kerslake before moving on to Spice – which would become Uriah Heep with the addition of Ken Hensley, upon Newton’s recommendation. In the time after Look At Yourself the band went through more personnel changes, first dropping founding member / bass player Paul Newton. It was the follow up to Look At Yourself, an album which saw the band solidify a heavy hard-rock direction, and featured classics like “Love Machine”, the title track, and the epic “July Morning” – the latter 2 would remain in the band’s set list almost permanently, and the album has been argued as the band’s best by some critics & fans, but it did not have the commercial success that Demons And Wizards would. A few days ago the album turned 50 years old. Demons & Wizards was Uriah Heep’s 4th studio album.
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