Sweet Lorraine | |
Cover: | Sweetlorraine.jpg |
Type: | single |
Artist: | Uriah Heep |
Album: | The Magician's Birthday |
A-Side: | Sweet Lorraine |
B-Side: | Blind Eye |
Released: | January 1973[1] |
Length: | 4:13 |
Label: | Bronze Mercury |
Prev Title: | Blind Eye |
Prev Year: | 1972 |
Next Title: | Spider Woman |
Next Year: | 1972 |
"Sweet Lorraine" is a song by the band Uriah Heep, first released on the 1972 album The Magician's Birthday on Bronze Records, and released as a single mainly for the American market though it was also released in a few European countries. It was written by Mick Box, Gary Thain and David Byron and reached #91 in the US Billboard Hot 100.[2] The B-side is "Blind Eye".
One of the band's better-known songs, it is famous, in part, for its Moog synthesizer solo performed by Ken Hensley. It became popular in live performance.