Lady In Black (song)
"Lady in Black" is a song by the 1970s rock band Uriah Heep. It is the fourth track of their 1971 album Salisbury.
The song is credited to Ken Hensley. It tells the story of a man wandering through war-torn darkness and encountering a goddess-like entity who consoles him. It is often praised, by fans and critics alike, as Hensley's most poetic work to date.There were too many b-sides for this song as a single the most famous was "Simon the Bullet Freak" but "Bird of Prey" has also been the b-side for the song. In 1981 the band has released a single in Germany and in Netherlands and the b-side was "Easy Livin'". The song has been written in the key of A Minor.
A brief comment on the cover of the original vinyl release commented that for Ken Hensley inspiration was a real case: a surprise visit to his daughter's rural vicar at a moment when he was in very depressed state. The result off this meeting, and-some kind of insight-and was the song "Lady in Black": philosophical parable tells us that evil can not be overcome by evil itself.
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