Easy Livin' (song)

This article is about the Uriah Heep song. For other songs with similar titles, see Easy Living (disambiguation).
"Easy Livin'"
Single by Uriah Heep
from the album Demons and Wizards
B-side"Gypsy" (U.S. B-side: "All My Life")
ReleasedJuly 1972 [1]
GenreProgressive rock, hard rock
Length2:37
LabelBronze
Mercury (US)
Songwriter(s)Ken Hensley
Producer(s)Gerry Bron
Uriah Heep singles chronology
"The Wizard"
(1972) 		"Easy Livin'"
(1972) 		"Blind Eye"
(1972)

"Easy Livin'" is a song by the British rock band Uriah Heep, released as the second single from their 1972 album Demons and Wizards. The band also shot a basic music video for the song in 1972. It was the band's first hit in the United States and the only top 40 hit there, peaking at No. 39 on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 1972.[2] The song's greatest success came in the Netherlands, where it reached No. 5,[3] as well as reaching the Top 20 charts in Norway, Denmark, Finland and Germany. The song also peaked at No. 25 in Canada.[4] In 1988, the band released a live version of the song, with new vocalist Bernie Shaw, as a UK single from the album Live in Moscow.[5][6]

The song appeared on the 2006 compilation Easy Livin': Singles A's & B's and as a re-recorded version on the 2009 album Celebration – Forty Years of Rock.[7]

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  2. ^ "Uriah Heep". Billboard.
  3. ^ "Uriah Heep - Easy Livin'". GfK Dutch Charts. Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 February 2012.
  4. ^ "RPM Top Singles - Volume 18, No. 8, October 07 1972". Library and Archives Canada. Archived from the original on 3 August 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
  5. ^ Minkkinen, Tapio (c. 2010). "Uriah Heep 1970-2010" (PDF). Tapio Minkkinen. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
  6. ^ "LIVE IN MOSCOW Singles releases". Heepfiles.info. Archived from the original on 2010-12-19. Retrieved 2016-10-06.
  7. ^ "Celebration - Forty Years Of Rock". Heepfiles.info. Archived from the original on 2010-12-18. Retrieved 2016-10-06.