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Concert day, Italy. Uriah Heep’s Ken Hensley is confronted by a bewildering sight. A female fan has turned up with the legend ‘Today is only yesterday’s tomorrow’ tattooed on her arm. The words are a line from Circle Of Hands, a track written by Hensley for Heep’s esteemed 1972 album Demons And Wizards.
He freely admits it to be “a really not tremendously intellectual statement.” However, the fan’s solemn reaction to his lyrics is not unusual: “I’ve seen T-shirts made with it.” “It captured everyone’s imagination”, observes his colleague Mick Box of such Heep wordcraft. “It’s certainly a long way from Moon-in-June.”