{"id":17393,"date":"2020-12-29T10:46:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T08:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.leonardcohen.de\/?p=17393"},"modified":"2020-12-29T19:57:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T17:57:38","slug":"kw-53-2020-leonard-cohen_and_uriah_heep-leonard_cohen_he_is_my_favourite_songwriter_of_all_times-said-uriah_heep_founder_ken_hensley-in-an-interview-with-christof-graf-just-some-days-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/?p=17393","title":{"rendered":"KW-53-2020: Leonard Cohen_and_URIAH_HEEP ? #Ken_Hensley_on_Leonard_Cohen: He_is_my_favourite_songwriter_of_all_times&#8220; said #Uriah_Heep_Founder_#Ken_Hensley in an Interview with Christof Graf, just some days (9th october 2020), before Hensley died on 4th of november 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#URIAH_HEEP #Ken_Hensley talks about #LEONARDCOHEN 09102020\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OO2gF1KVBcM?start=89&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"style-scope ytd-expander\">\n<div id=\"description\" class=\"style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer\"><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"><strong><em>Promotion Days with <\/em><\/strong>Uriah Heep &#8211; Musicians\u00a0 &#8211; 50 Years of Rock &#8211; An excerpt from one of Ken Hensley`s last interviews with Christof Graf on 9th of october 2020. <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=%23Ken_Hensley\">#Ken_Hensley<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"> talks about an encounter with Leonard Cohen in 1972. \u201e&#8230; He is my favourite songwriters of all times &#8230; I remember this encounter as if it was yesterday, only I can\u2019t remember the exact date\u201c. The whole interview you can read on: BLOG.LEONARDCOHEN.DE and www.cohenpedia.de (Sorry for the bad quality &#8211; it was not the best telephone connection, but it was one the last interviews <\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=%23Ken_Hensley\">#Ken_Hensley<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"> did. He passed away on 4th of november 2020)<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><em>Ken Hensley talks about an encounter with Leonard Cohen in 1972. \u201eI remember this encounter as if it was yesterday, only I can\u2019t remember the exact date\u201c. If one compares the tour plans of Uriah Heep &amp; Leonard Cohen, both Leonard Cohen and Uriah Heep played in Munich in 1970, 1972, 1974 and 1976, both often in the legendary location \u201eCircus Krone Bau\u201c. And in fact, it must have been April 10-11, 1972 when the encounter took place. These are the only tour dates on which Uriah Heep and Leonard Cohen stayed at the same time in Munich to give a concert; Author\u2019s note).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>P.S.: The reason for this conversation was the publication of Uriah Heep\u2019s \u201c50 Years In Rock\u201d complilation on 30<sup>th<\/sup> of October 2020, which of course also includes the band\u2019s anthem #LADY_IN_BACK. A fortnight after this interview, which was one of the last Ken Hensley ever gave, the agencies reported on November 5th, 2020: \u201eKen Hensley\u201c died \u201eunexpectedly\u201c on November 4th, 2020 at the age of 75. His brother Trevor confirmed this in a Facebook post. He did not comment on the cause of death. He wrote: \u201eI write this with a heavy heart to let you know that my brother Ken Hensley died peacefully Wednesday night. His beautiful wife, Monica, was by his side, helping Ken in his last minutes. We are all devastated by.\u201c this tragic and incredibly unexpected loss and we ask you to give us some space and time to deal with it. Ken is being cremated at a private ceremony in Spain so please don\u2019t ask for information about a funeral. Ken has left but he will never be forgotten and will always stay in our hearts. Take care out there.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Photo: BMG Ariola\/ www.promoteam.de)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Promotion Days with Uriah Heep &#8211; Musicians\u00a0 &#8211; 50 Years of Rock &#8211; An excerpt from one of Ken Hensley`s last interviews with Christof Graf on 9th of october 2020. #Ken_Hensley talks about an encounter with Leonard Cohen in 1972. \u201e&#8230; He is my favourite songwriters of all times &#8230; I remember this encounter as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17393"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17405,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17393\/revisions\/17405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}