Easy Livin' (song)

"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. The song's greatest success came in the Netherlands, where it reached No. 5, as well as reaching the Top 20 charts in Norway, Denmark, Finland and Germany. The song also peaked at No. 25 in Canada. 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.

"Easy Livin'"
Single by Uriah Heep
from the album Demons and Wizards
B-side"Gypsy" (U.S. B-side: "All My Life")
ReleasedJuly 1972
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)

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.

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