The Wizard
~ Recording by Blind Guardian
Appears on releases
| # | Title | Length | Track artist | Release title | Release artist | Release group type | Country/Date | Label | Catalog# |
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| 1.3 | The Wizard | 3:21 | Blind Guardian | A Past and Future Secret | Blind Guardian | Single |
| Virgin (worldwide imprint of Virgin Records Ltd. and all its subsidiaries) | 7243 8927442 4, 892744 2 |
| 1.10 | The Wizard | 3:17 | Blind Guardian | Imaginations From the Other Side | Blind Guardian | Album |
| Victor (Japanese “His Master’s Voice” imprint) | VICP-8142 |
| 1.10 | The Wizard | 3:17 | Blind Guardian | Imaginations From the Other Side | Blind Guardian | Album |
| Victor (Japanese “His Master’s Voice” imprint) | VICP-5519 |
| 1.5 | The Wizard | 3:16 | Blind Guardian | The Forgotten Tales | Blind Guardian | Album + Compilation | Virgin (worldwide imprint of Virgin Records Ltd. and all its subsidiaries) | 724384162726, 841 627 2 | |
| 1.5 | The Wizard | 3:16 | Blind Guardian | The Forgotten Tales | Blind Guardian | Album + Compilation |
| Virgin (worldwide imprint of Virgin Records Ltd. and all its subsidiaries) | 841 626 2 |
| 1.14 | The Wizard | 3:16 | Blind Guardian | Follow the Blind | Blind Guardian | Album |
| NEMS Enterprises (Argentinian label) | NEMS 39 |
| 1.6 | The Wizard | 3:16 | Blind Guardian | Best of Wacken Open‐Air (10 Years Louder Than Hell) | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Steamhammer | SPV 087-21452 CD |
| 1.5 | The Wizard | 3:18 | Blind Guardian | The Forgotten Tales | Blind Guardian | Album + Compilation |
| NEMS Enterprises (Argentinian label) | NEMS 270 |
| 1.5 | The Wizard | 3:18 | Blind Guardian | The Forgotten Tales | Blind Guardian | Album + Compilation |
| NEMS Enterprises (Argentinian label) | NEMS 270 |
| 1.10 | The Wizard | 3:17 | Blind Guardian | Imaginations From the Other Side (limited edition) | Blind Guardian | Album |
| Victor (Japanese “His Master’s Voice” imprint) | VICP-61767 |
| 1.5 | The Wizard | 3:18 | Blind Guardian | The Forgotten Tales | Blind Guardian | Album + Compilation |
| Century Media (imprint of Century Media Records GmbH and its subsidiaries) | 8256-2 |
| 1.5 | The Wizard | 3:18 | Blind Guardian | The Forgotten Tales | Blind Guardian | Album + Compilation |
| Virgin (worldwide imprint of Virgin Records Ltd. and all its subsidiaries) | 396 5182 |
| 1.5 | The Wizard | 3:18 | Blind Guardian | The Forgotten Tales (remastered) | Blind Guardian | Album + Compilation |
| Century Media (imprint of Century Media Records GmbH and its subsidiaries) | 8558-2 |
| 1.5 | The Wizard | 3:15 | Blind Guardian | The Forgotten Tales (remastered 2007) | Blind Guardian | Album + Compilation |
| Nuclear Blast (metal and subgenres) | |
| 1.5 | The Wizard | 3:15 | Blind Guardian | The Forgotten Tales (Remastered) | Blind Guardian | Album + Compilation |
| Virgin (worldwide imprint of Virgin Records Ltd. and all its subsidiaries) | 0946 3 96518 2 5 |
| 7.5 | The Wizard | 3:18 | Blind Guardian | A Traveler’s Guide to Space and Time | Blind Guardian | Album + Compilation |
| Virgin (worldwide imprint of Virgin Records Ltd. and all its subsidiaries), Virgin EMI Records (division of Universal Music UK, 2013–2020) | 725338 |
| 2.5 | The Wizard | 3:18 | Blind Guardian | The Forgotten Tales | Blind Guardian | Album + Compilation |
| Nuclear Blast (metal and subgenres) | 27361 43290 |
| 1.5 | The Wizard | 3:18 | Blind Guardian | The Forgotten Tales | Blind Guardian | Album + Compilation |
| Nuclear Blast (metal and subgenres) | 27361 43290 |
| 1.14 | The Wizard | 3:16 | Blind Guardian | Follow the Blind | Blind Guardian | Album |
| NEMS Enterprises (Argentinian label) | NEMS 39 |
| Promotion | |||||||||
| 1.4 | Wizzard | 3:15 | Blind Guardian | Guardians of the Rings | Blind Guardian | EP |
| Metal Hammer & Heavy Metal (Greek version of the Metal Hammer magazine), Virgin (worldwide imprint of Virgin Records Ltd. and all its subsidiaries) | 7243 895420 2 8 |
| Bootleg | |||||||||
| 1.11 | The Wizard | 3:14 | Blind Guardian | Symphonies of Doom & Battalions of Fear | Blind Guardian | Album + Compilation |
| Good MusicCompany | LH-D 1996 |
| 1.10 | The Wizard | 3:16 | Blind Guardian | Evil Ultimate Metal Covers 47 | Various Artists | Other + Compilation | [no label] (Special purpose label – white labels, self-published releases and other “no label” releases) | ||
Relationships
| recording engineer and mixer: | Flemming Rasmussen (from 1994-08 until 1994-10) |
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| assistant engineer: | Henrik Vindeby |
| engineer: | Flemming Rasmussen Piet Sielck |
| producer: | Flemming Rasmussen |
| acoustic guitar: | Jacob Moth André Olbrich |
| drums (drum set): | Thomen Stauch |
| effects: | Mathias Wiesner |
| electric guitar: | André Olbrich Marcus Siepen |
| Hammond organ: | Otto Sidenius |
| instruments: | Hansi Kürsch (metal vocalist) |
| background vocals: | Ronnie Atkins Thomas Hackmann Billy King (American‐born producer & songwriter, based in Hamburg) Rolf Köhler (vocalist/musician/record producer) Piet Sielck |
| lead vocals: | Hansi Kürsch (metal vocalist) |
| phonographic copyright (℗) by: | Virgin Schallplatten GmbH (not for release label use! for copyrights use only, former German division of Virgin Records Ltd.) (in 1991) NEMS Enterprises (Argentinian label) (in 2001) |
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| recorded at and mixed at: | Sweet Silence Studios (at Strandlodsvej, 1976–1999) in Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark (from 1994-08 until 1994-10) |
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| has remixes: | The Wizard |
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| recording of: | The Wizard (cover) |
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Related works
The Wizard
| writer: | Mark Clarke (Rock, UK) Ken Hensley |
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| publisher: | A Tale of Two Ditties Bron Music EMI Music Ltd. EMI Music Publishing (do not use as a release label!) EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (PRS‐affiliated) EMI Publishing Ltd. S. Bron Music Co. Ltd. |
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