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Ken Hensley

1945 - 2020

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Kenneth William David Hensley (24 August 1945 – 4 November 2020) was an English musician, singer, songwriter and producer, best known for his work with Uriah Heep during the 1970s. He wrote or co-wrote the majority of Uriah Heep's songs during this period, including the singles "Lady in Black" (on which he sang lead vocals), "Easy Livin'" and "Stealin'", as well as "Look at Yourself" and "Free Me". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ken Hensley has received more than 888,995 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Ken Hensley is the 207th most popular musician (up from 225th in 2019), the 778th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 871st in 2019) and the 48th most popular British Musician.

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  • 890k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Ken Hensley ranks 207 out of 3,175. Before him are Kitarō, Amy Winehouse, Nikolai Rubinstein, Stan Getz, Gidon Kremer, and Clara Haskil. After him are Violeta Parra, Joe Jackson, Herbie Hancock, Stuart Sutcliffe, Lenny Kravitz, and Snoop Dogg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Ken Hensley ranks 65. Before him are Itzhak Perlman, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, Bette Midler, Richard Thaler, Moncef Marzouki, and Hasan Akhund. After him are Carmen Maura, Haris Silajdžić, Dennis Rader, Joël Robuchon, Yochanan Vollach, and Joseph Kosuth. Among people deceased in 2020, Ken Hensley ranks 56. Before him are Buck Henry, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Joel Schumacher, Brian Dennehy, and George Steiner. After him are Mary Higgins Clark, Little Richard, Mamadou Tandja, Abdul Halim Khaddam, Radomir Antić, and Mario J. Molina.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ken Hensley ranks 778 out of 8,785. Before him are Ian McDiarmid (1944), Clementine Churchill (1885), Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881), Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset (1519), Jean Simmons (1929), and Richard Wilson (1936). After him are Julie Walters (1950), Thomas De Quincey (1785), John Gielgud (1904), Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868), James Black (1924), and James Joseph Sylvester (1814).

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Among MUSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among musicians born in United Kingdom, Ken Hensley ranks 48. Before him are Brian Eno (1948), Ian Paice (1948), Bill Wyman (1936), John Cale (1942), John Paul Jones (1946), and Amy Winehouse (1983). After him are Stuart Sutcliffe (1940), Cliff Williams (1949), Alan Parsons (1948), Ian Stewart (1938), Mick Taylor (1949), and Bob Klose (1945).

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