This was also about the time I realized that heavy music embraced a few consistent themes other than sex and drugs. I wonder if Ken Hensley has any sense of the very real impact he made with those words… Though I fall a good sight short of living up to the calling, I still take a measure of pride in aspiring to it.
Captured poignantly in The Wizard’s refrain, Why don’t we listen to the voices in our hearts?, the message, in part, is that there is great courage in doing good and right by others. The lyrics, simple and elegant, tell of the power found in peace and freedom from fear. “The Wizard” was probably the first time I realized that power isn’t necessarily synonymous with brute strength.
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It’s a brief song and not particularly heavy, as heavy goes, but man is it full of magic. “Easy Livin'” was the album’s rockin’ centerpiece, but it’s opener, “The Wizard,” really captured the mysticism of the artwork. I used to spin my mom’s vinyl over and over, losing myself in that wonderful Roger Dean cover art (I like to think Mom completely missed the ‘hidden’ erotic imagery), imagining myself to be the mysterious moth-winged character in the foreground. Uriah Heep’s Demons and Wizards was one of the first heavy albums I listened to intently. This time the focus is on one of heavy music’s earliest and most enduring images, that of The Wizard. So far epithetical anger, The Devil’s Holiday, and Prince Prospero’s folly have been examined. Titular Homogeneity is all about tracing themes through Heavy Metal via their simplest index: song titles.
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