* 1945 – Paul Newton, British musician ( Uriah Heep )

They performed their first concert together, opening for Uriah Heep and Manfred Mann with an attendance of over 11, 000 people at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August 14.

Uriah Heep is a fictional character created by Charles Dickens in his novel David Copperfield.

The characteristics of grasping manipulation and insincerity can lead to a person being labelled " a Uriah Heep " as Lyndon Johnson is called in Robert Caro's biography.

Author Philip Roth once compared President Richard Nixon to Uriah Heep.

The British rock band Uriah Heep is named after the character.

In the BBC television series Blake's 7, the computer character Slave was described by Peter Tuddenham, who voiced it, as "... a Uriah Heep type of character ...."

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The band was labeled a supergroup as it included former members of several veteran progressive rock bands, namely bassist / vocalist John Wetton ( formerly in Mogul Thrash, Family, King Crimson, Roxy Music, Uriah Heep, U. K. and Wishbone Ash ), guitarist Steve Howe ( formerly, and subsequently in Yes ), keyboardist Geoff Downes ( of Yes and The Buggles ) and drummer Carl Palmer ( formerly in The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Atomic Rooster and Emerson, Lake & Palmer ).

Asia's logo and cover art were handled by illustrator Roger Dean of Yes and Uriah Heep fame.

2001 did see the band with a stable line-up, achieved during the Aura sessions featuring Downes, Payne, guitarist Guthrie Govan and ex-Manfred Mann's Earth Band / The Firm / Uriah Heep / Gary Numan / AC / DC drummer Chris Slade ( who had first joined Asia in 1999, briefly ).

A live album and DVD " Asia: Live in the USA " was released in 2003, recorded at the Classic Rock Festival in Trenton, NJ in October 2002, which they co-headlined with Uriah Heep.

Confirmation bias has been described as an internal " Wikt: yes man | yes man ", echoing back a person's beliefs like Charles Dickens ' character Uriah Heep.

* Roland Young as Uriah Heep

The novel's two most familiar characters are David's sometime mentor, the debt-ridden Micawber, and the devious and fraudulent clerk, Uriah Heep, whose misdeeds are eventually revealed with Micawber's assistance.

* Uriah Heep – The main antagonist of the novel's second half, Heep is a wicked young man who serves first as secretary, and then as partner to Mr. Wickfield.

Uriah Heep is forced to return the money, but is not prosecuted by the Wickfields.

* Salisbury ( album ), a 1971 album by Uriah Heep

Other bands such as King Crimson and Rush were also incorporating metal into their music, as well as Uriah Heep, whose " by-the-books progressive heavy metal made the British band one of the most popular hard rock groups of the early ' 70s ".

* Mick Box, guitarist for Uriah Heep born in Walthamstow.

Micawber is hired as a clerk by the scheming Uriah Heep, who assumes wrongly that Micawber's debts arise from his dishonesty.

Even on the more commercial Parcel of Rogues ( 1973 ), the band had no permanent drummer, but in 1973 rock drummer Nigel Pegrum, who had previously recorded with Gnidrolog, The Small Faces and Uriah Heep, joined them, to harden up their sound ( as well as occasionally playing flute and oboe ).

A lavishly packaged ( an eight-page booklet plus ) double album Uriah Heep Live followed, recorded at the Birmingham Townhall in January 1973.

John Wetton ( ex-Family and King Crimson ) joined the band and with him Return to Fantasy was recorded ; representing a revitalized Uriah Heep, it soared up to No. 7 in the UK.

Shane Black's troubles continued, as he was one of the bluepills recorded to have first witnessed Unlimited redpills practising their newfound powers at the Uriah wharf.

Additionally, two of the songs released on the first Uriah Heep album were recorded by the Spice line-up before Hensley's inclusion, with Colin Wood appearing on keyboards (" Come Away Melinda " and " Wake Up ( Set Your Sights )").

*" Come Away Melinda ", written by Fred Hellerman and Fran Minkoff, and recorded by Harry Belafonte ( on the album Streets I Have Walked ), Judy Collins ( Judy Collins 3 ), Theodore Bikel ( A Folksinger's Choice ), Tim Rose ( Tim Rose ), Bobbie Gentry ( Local Gentry ), Uriah Heep ( Very ' Eavy ...

Cole also recorded a solo album in 1972, called New Hovering Dog, before becoming an important session musician playing with Elton John, Uriah Heep and many others throughout the 1970s.

Other covers were recorded by Mountain, Ten Years After, Raul Seixas, Leon Russell, Status Quo, The Rolling Stones, The Byrds, The 13th Floor Elevators, The Sonics, Wes Paul, Gene Vincent, Quartz, Johnny Winter, Uriah Heep, Kickhunter, Johnny Rivers, M. Ward, Iron Maiden, and Margaret Lewis.

Levy's heirs argued over his estate, but their lawsuits were settled in 1879, when Uriah Levy's nephew, Jefferson Monroe Levy, a prominent New York lawyer, real estate and stock speculator and member of Congress, bought out the other heirs for $ 10, 050, and took control of the property.

Uriah's father, who instilled him with the need to be humble, died when Uriah was ten, and for the first part of the novel he lives alone with his mother in their " umble abode ".

Uriah addresses Copperfield as " Master Copperfield " well into their adulthood, an indication of his true patronising view.

In October 2009 Uriah Heep released their 40th Anniversary Celebration album, containing new studio recordings of twelve of their best known tracks, plus two brand new songs.

" This collection underlines again that Uriah Heep are deserving great respect for their past achievements but far more importantly it makes it crystal clear that this is a band with a bright future as well as a glorious history ", wrote Chris Kee in his 9 / 10 review in Powerplay magazine ’ s February 2010 issue.

Uriah Heep released their 23rd studio album Into the Wild on 15 April 2011 in Europe ( 3 May in North America ) via Frontiers Records.

* Uriah Heep prominently used the Minimoog since their album Magician's Birthday

Uriah Fuller is a pen name that Martin Gardner, a notable American skeptic, recreational mathematician, author, and amateur magician, used for two booklets he wrote in the 1970s showing how purported psychics such as Uri Geller do their " seemingly impossible paranormal feats " such as bending spoons and apparently reading minds.

*" Bird of Prey " ( Uriah Heep song ), appears as their first song on their second album, Salisbury

Nigel Pegrum played drums with an early line-up of The Small Faces, then played drums with Lee Grant And The Capitols before joining Spice, who subsequently changed their name to Uriah Heep and replaced him with a drummer who had a heavier style of playing, but not before recording the " Lansdowne Tapes ".

The group changed their name to Uriah Heep on the inclusion in late 1969 of organist Ken Hensley, formerly of The Gods and Toe Fat.

Spice released one single, " What About The Music " ( b / w " In Love ") in 1968, eventually transforming into Uriah Heep during the recording of their first full-length album.

A DVD from their support stint in the UK with Uriah Heep featured a live airing of " Tarot Woman " as well as other Rainbow tracks.

In September 2010 Uriah became President of Hallam FC who are celebrating their 150th anniversary season and still play at the oldest football ground in the world, Sandygate in Sheffield