The fourth track on Uriah Heep's 1971 album Salisbury, "Lady in Black" was never released as a single in the U.S., but fans fell in love with the ballad just the same, and it ended up becoming one of their most popular live tunes. As guitar player Ken Hensley explained in a 2018 interview with Songfacts, it all started with a supernatural encounter.
In the case of "The Lady in Black," Hensley was inspired by a ghostly vision of an actual woman in black.
"I just picked up my guitar and let my over-active imagination run with this vision and, as is often the case, let the lyric go wherever it wanted to go."
She came to me one morning, one lonely Sunday morningHer long hair flowing in the mid-winter windI know not how she found me, for in darkness I was walkingAnd destruction lay around me, from a fight I could not win
All these years later, fans are still connecting with this musical tale of a soldier in search of redemption, as the comments on the above YouTube video prove (for example: "Ken Hensley is the best!!! Uriah Heep forever!!!" "Timeless song, and lifts me when I'm down!").
"Actually, this song came from a dream that I had persistently over a week and, when I decided to write it, I just followed what I had seen in the dream, along with a little amateur philosophy," Hensley explained.
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