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2003 |
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December 31st 2003 |
Season's Greetings to each and every one of you... from us at ken-hensley.com! |
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December 29th 2003 |
Looking for any particular CD by Ken Hensley, Uriah Heep, Blackfoot, or any other related band? Please go to our CD Store and check it out... we have plenty of CDs available there now, in association with Amazon.com! Season's Greetings to each and every one of you... from us at ken-hensley.com |
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December 20th 2003 |
Ken Hensley played at the Greg Ridley Memorial Concert last Sunday at a warehouse in Gata de Gorgos, Spain. Ridley, and ex-member of Spooky Tooth, Humble Pie, Strange Brew, etc., passed away on November 19th, and this concert was organized in order to raise funds for his widow, featuring many musicians including Ken, Clem Clempson, Geoff Britton (both part of David Byron's Rough Diamond), and many others. It was a well organized event (set up by a local Harley club called ¨Los Cruzados¨), see the photos here! |
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December 14th 2003 |
Stay On Top - The German Fan Club of Uriah Heep, will commemorate it's 20th Anniversary (1984-2004) next year! A very special event is being organized in Hamburg, Germany, including special guests such as Ken Hensley, John Lawton, Lana Lane, Erik Norlander and others! More details here! |
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December 14th 2003 |
Jack Williams, Ken's most regular co-writer through the years, has a new website up and running, check it out here! |
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December 7th 2003 |
The lyrics from all songs of The Last Dance CD were added to the album's page... check them out here! |
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November 30th 2003 |
Ken Hensley has accepted an invitation to play at a private, corporate show in Moscow on Boxing Day (December 26th), so he'll be arriving in Moscow on Christmas Day. It sounds like a White Christmas this year! |
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November 30th 2003 |
Some soundbits from Ken's new album, The Last Dance, have been included on the album's page, check them out here! |
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November 30th 2003 |
As announced here before, the limited edition CD version of The Last Dance has been sent since the second week of November! A lot of people already received their copies, but if you haven't don't worry as every day more and more copies are leaving Spain to reach their owners! These are the limited, signed and numbered copies, only available here on this website, and including the new master using a brand new mastering technique!! If you haven't ordered yours, there's still time as the last copies are still available here! |
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November 2nd 2003 |
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October 30th 2003 |
Check out Stella Hensley's new website here! She is married to Trevor, Ken's brother, and is releasing a new album called Strong, together with guitar player John Wright. |
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October 26th 2003 |
There was a slight delay in the schedule for the limited edition of The Last Dance to be out of the factory, due to a car crash involving José Manuel, the artist responsible for the booklet's artwork. He's doing much better now (despite a broken sternum and some cracked ribs!!) and the artwork was finalized. The CDs will be shipped in the second week of November. The first 150 people who ordered the new CD will also receive an extra Lady In Black Maxi Single CD as a reward for their patience! The regular version of the album will be only available by mid-late January 2004, so you have not yet got your copy, act fast as there are only 500 limited edition copies available! |
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October 12th 2003 |
Another Star Letter published... Ken answers your questions! Read it here... |
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October 11th 2003 |
The transcription of today's chat with Ken Hensley can be read here! |
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October 11th 2003 |
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October 9th 2003 |
Ken's new studio album, The Last
Dance, is now officially released in Russia!
Pretty soon it will be also released in all the other
markets. Meanwhile, a special limited edition,
signed and numbered, is available only
through this website! But hurry as only 500 copies
were made!! Order yours here
now!! |
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October 9th 2003 |
The Online Chat with Ken Hensley will happen this Saturday, October 11th, beginning at 16:00 (4 pm) Spain time! To join it, please go to our "Goodies" page, and click on the "Chat" link. That will mean, we guess, 15:00 (3 pm) in the UK, 10:00 in the USA East Coast, 7:00 in the USA West Coast, 11:00 in Brazil, 18:00 (6 pm) in Israel, 23:00 (11 pm) in Japan, and 16:00 (4 pm) in most of Europe. |
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October 9th 2003 |
Pictures taken during Ken Hensley's latest tour in Russia can be now found here! |
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September 30th 2003 |
Read here the latest updates on Ken's The Last Dance tour in Russia and Ukraine!! |
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September 23rd 2003 |
Photos from Ken Hensley's recent concert in Kharkov, Ukraine, can be seen here! Thanks to photographer Avdoshyn Andrej. |
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September 17th 2003 |
Ken Hensley and band are back in tour... Read the first installments of the new diary here! And check out the tourdates here. The touring band is: Ken Hensley - lead vocals, keyboards, guitars; Fabian Santangelo - lead guitar; John Smithson - bass guitar; Tommy Lopez - drums; Jorge Henderson - sound engineer. |
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September 17th 2003 |
Suonna Kononen wrote this small article for the biggest newspaper in Joensuu, Finland, called Karjalainen (47,000 copies). It says: "In March 2002 here in Joensuu played Ken Hensley, who has released a new miniCD called 'Lady In Black'. There will be four new versions of this Uriah Heep classic written by Hensley. North Carelian Heep & Hensley specialist Heikki Kyllästinen has ordered one hundred CDs with Hensley's autograph and will sell them to those who want it for the same price he bought them. You can get in touch with Kyllästinen by email: heikki.kyllastinen@kolumbus.fi". Thanks to Heikki Kyllästinen for the great work! |
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September 7th 2003 |
The new album, The Last Dance, is complete now and the special limited edition (500 copies only!) will be available here pretty soon. Please keep watching this space! It is possible, though, to order now the special "hand-made" version of the CD, a collectors item! Details at the Web Store page! |
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September 6th 2003 |
On October 11th, right after
his tour in Russia and Ukraine, Ken Hensley
will join the first online chat promoted by ken-hensley.com!
To be part of it, please go to our "Goodies"
page, and click on the "Chat" link.
Soon we will announce the exact time that Ken will
be online to chat with everybody. |
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September 3rd 2003 |
A while ago we mentioned here a new book being prepared in Russia about several personalities, and now we have the confirmation that the famous Russian/American/French writer Vasily Aksenov is going to write about Ken Hensley. More news about this special project soon! |
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September 3rd 2003 |
Uwe Reuter's set of great Uriah Heep books is available at http://www.uriahheepbooks.de . But the story isn't over yet... after releasing the main piece and 4 "yearbooks" (from 1999 to 2002), a new yearbook ("Hold Your Head Up") is already planned for a May 2004 release, covering the 2003 Heepy facts! For complete details and ordering, please visit his website or download this PDF file! |
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September 3rd 2003 |
Stay On Top, the Uriah Heep Fanclub in Germany, has a brand new website: follow either http://www.uriahheep.de or http://www.stay-on-top.de ! A great work by Renate Fischer, who might be contacted at sot@rena.onlinehome.de. |
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September 3rd 2003 |
Available through Carolina Heepsters Association is their book Tales of Heeplore. A collectors book for all true Heep fans, but please notice that only less then 30 copies remain from their only printing of this!!! When they are gone, they are gone. The price is only US$ 15. For those of interest, check out their site and click on the marquee passing under the banner ("Uriah Heep Collectibles"). |
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August 28th 2003 |
Breaking news: the mixing of The Last Dance is finished! Check out the latest update here!! |
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August 25th 2003 |
Brand new tourdates just announced! Ken Hensley & band will be playing in Ukraine and Russia in September, promoting the brand new album The Last Dance! |
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August 25th 2003 |
The new section of this website, "Ken Hensley Answers...", has just started! Check out the first answers provided by Ken himself to your questions... here! |
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August 22nd 2003 |
Check out here one of the last updates on the recordings of The Last Dance, as the CD is almost ready!! |
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August 6th 2003 |
This website now includes an "advice" section where people can write their questions on music matters or just about anything with which Ken Hensley might be able to help or at least direct them to someone who can. We will publish a "star letter" each month so it might be useful to others... with the writer's permission of course! Please send your questions to Ken to advice@ken-hensley.com . |
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August 5th 2003 |
A new update on Ken's new album, The Last Dance, is now online! |
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August 4th 2003 |
This year Ken Hensley completes his 40th Career Anniversary! August 24th is his birthday, so any cards and/or presents can be sent to P.O. Box 3119, 03080, Alicante, Spain. The guestbook is also open for messages! |
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July 29th 2003 |
A new update on Ken's new album, The Last Dance, is now online! |
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July 22nd 2003 |
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July 17th 2003 |
Some new items are now available at the Webstore! Signed Russian Running Blind Posters, and the last A Glimpse Of Glory signed CDs available! Only till stocks last... check them out now! |
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July 16th 2003 |
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July 15th 2003 |
The new Lady In Black Maxi-Single CD is ready and for sale!! Containing 4 brand new versions of the Uriah Heep classic song "Lady In Black", it's now available exclusively in our webstore! |
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July 12th 2003 |
The Charity Auction at is now over! A list with the winners and a personal message from Ken can be seen here!!! |
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June 23rd 2003 |
Trevor Hensley (Ken's brother) has a brand new site up and running, with info on his 2 CDs, upcoming live gigs, etc.! Chek it out here!! |
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June 20th 2003 |
Breaking news: a new interesting book
is being prepared in Russia... it's an almanac, the
anthology of literature portraits of our great |
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June 20th 2003 |
The Running Blind Movie is now at Streamingrockclips.com. This is the movie that goes behind the scenes with Ken Hensley as he was actually recording the "Running Blind" album! Shot on location in St. Louis Missouri in the USA and the Liscombe Studios in the UK, here is your chance to see the bonus CD that came with the "Making of Running Blind" pre-subscribers copies a year or so ago! Check it out here!! |
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June 20th 2003 |
The new Heep tribute CD, A Return
To Fantasy, will be released on |
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June 13th 2003 |
Here's a report on the webmasters visit to Ken Hensley's studio in Spain, last month... and some thoughts about the upcoming CD, The Last Dance. And more! |
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June 10th 2003 |
Ken's brother Trevor Hensley
is starting to put a number of gigs together to promote
his brand new album, The Other Side of a Sixpence.
So far they are: |
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June 4th 2003 |
We have a new Charity Auction going on now! It offers some very special and unique items for sale, and it will be running until July 5th only! So hurry and check it out here! Already open for bids... |
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June 4th 2003 |
The Last Dance CD is almost completed! A special limited edition CD will be for sale here very soon, including some special features that won't be on the regular edition. Watch this space for details! |
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June 4th 2003 |
Soon we'll have here on the site a Maxi Single CD being sold, with some brand new versions of Lady In Black, just recorded by Ken Hensley!! More details pretty soon! |
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June 4th 2003 |
Dmitry Epstein has just announced a cool Hensley Special section on his website, check it out here! |
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May 24th 2003 |
Pictures from the concert in Rostov, Russia, are now available here! |
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May 22nd 2003 |
Some photos from the 2003 Russian Tour were added here! |
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May 21st 2003 |
The Studio Journal relating the recordings for the upcoming album, The Last Dance, is back! Check it out here! |
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May 20th 2003 |
Dave Kilminster, the amazing guitar player who played with Ken on Running Blind and during the Free Spirit World Tour last year, has a new website up and running: www.davekilminster.com ! |
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May 6th 2003 |
The last instalment of Ken's Journal regarding the successful Russian Tour has been just uploaded! |
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May 5th 2003 |
Ken's concert in Moscow wasn't recorded for DVD release as previously announced, so the setlist was changed, as it can be seen here. This doesn't mean that we won't have a DVD available, as new plans have been made to fill the gap! |
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April 28th 2003 |
Last Saturday, Ken Hensley played with his band and the Presidential Orchestra in Moscow. It was a special concert, and was the last one of this Russian Tour! Read all the details here! |
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April 21st 2003 |
Trevor Hensley (Ken's brother)
is releasing his second album, entitled The Other
Side of a Sixpence. The cover image can be seen
here! The CD
is available through either Terrapin |
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April 19th 2003 |
This is not exactly news, but as we didn't mention it at the time, here it is: Ken played as a guest on the 2001 album by My Two Planets, called 'Highways & Angels". For more info (and to listen to some soundbits): www.my2planets.com |
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April 17th 2003 |
Ken Hensley & band are right now
driving through the Ural mountains. Ken says:
"The roads are bad but I can't stop thinking
how blessed I am to be able to see all this!".
A new Journal's instalment is available now! |
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April 14th 2003 |
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April 12th 2003 |
Ken's own Journal has been updated, now with news directly from Russia. Check out how the concerts have been, and see some photos taken during rehearsals with the orchestra and live gigs! |
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April 11th 2003 |
The first pics from Ken's trip to Russia can be found here! |
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April 1st 2003 |
The studio journal has been updated! OK, we know today is Fool's Day, but this is for real! |
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March 25th 2003 |
The new Russian tourdates have been announced! Check them out here! |
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March 20th 2003 |
The studio journal has been updated! |
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March 14th 2003 |
The first of a new series of live
dates has been just announced! Ken will be playing
at the MDM in Moscow, Russia, on April 26th. The show
is going to be recorded for a DVD release! Check out
the official promotional ad here,
and the Tour Dates page
for extra info. |
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March 9th 2003 |
The studio journal has been updated once again... and it includes a picture taken in the studio with Ken and the musicians playing on his new album! |
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February 28th 2003 |
The studio journal has been updated! |
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February 13th 2003 |
The recordings for the new Ken
Hensley album, to be called The Last Dance,
have already begun! Ken will be personally providing
a Journal with details
about them. Pics will be added too, so please check
this out often! |
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February 11th 2003 |
Here is the set list from the St.
Petersburg show: The conductor was Valeri Voronin, musical director Andrey Arkanov and the arranger was Anton Tananov. The orchestra consisted of 18 violins, 6 violas, 4 cellos, 2 contra basses, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 french horns, 2 trumpets and percussion! |
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February 1st 2003 |
Here's a new message from Ken, with some updates... "Hi everyone! As you know I am
leaving to start recording the new CD on Tuesday and
I wanted to thank all of you who sent it "interpretations"
of the working title Opramenko!!! None of you
were right but your "ideas" did prove that
most of you are as crazy as I am!! The full title
of the CD will be The Last Dance, reflecting
a 9+ minute song that will now (obviously) be the
title track. Opramenko was proving impossible
to illustrate too, whereas the design ideas for The
Last Dance are stunning!! So the CD should be
finished by mid-March and of course I'll keep you
all posted along the way. |
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January 28th 2003 |
Some exciting news will be announced here soon! Meanwhile, we have brand news about Ken's successful gig in St. Petersburg in front of 3,500 fans, playing together with an orchestra! Read details and see pics from the event here! |
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