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Ken Hensley

A rock and roll lifer, guitarist, singer, and keyboardist Ken Hensley was born August 24, 1945 in Plumstead, London, England. He began playing guitar before he was a teenager and started gigging before he turned 16. He bounced from band to band throughout the late 1960s, playing with such future notables as Mick Taylor and Greg Lake in the group The Gods. In 1969 Hensley was invited to join the band Spice, who changed heir name the next year to Uriah Heep. It was in this group that Hensley came into his own as both a songwriter, singer, and musician, and over the next ten years h...