* 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.

* 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.

* The first of the historical passages recounting Jeremiah's prophecy in the Temple ( compare chapter 7 ), his arrest, his threatened death, and his rescue, in which connection the martyrdom of the prophet Uriah is briefly mentioned ( chapter 26 ).

The theme is of retribution: David's sin against Uriah the Hittite is punished by God through the destruction of his own family, and its purpose is to serve as an apology for the coronation of Bathsheba's son Solomon instead of his older brother Adonijah.

David sends for Uriah, who is with the Israelite army at the siege of Rabbah, so that he may lie with his wife and conceal the identity of the child's father.

Uriah is repeatedly mentioned as ugly and repulsive, even in his youth-tall, lank and pale with red hair and lashless eyes.

Urijah ( or Uriah in many English translations ) is a prophet mentioned in Jeremiah 26: 20-23.

The Sea of Light album ( 1995 ) produced by the band along with Kalle Trapp was well received and in retrospect is seen as the band's return to form, the key to success being ( according to critic Donald A. Guarisco ) the way it " forsook the ill-judged pop metal stylings of albums like Equator for a return to the gothic-tinged old-school metal style that highlighted classic Uriah Heep albums like Look at Yourself ".

" 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.

" True humility " is distinctly different from " false humility " which consists of deprecating one's own sanctity, gifts, talents, and accomplishments for the sake of receiving praise or adulation from others, as personified by the fictional character Uriah Heep created by Charles Dickens.

The second Uriah Heep album, Salisbury is named for the plain, as is the closing track on the album.

The story is told that David, while walking on the roof of his palace, saw Bathsheba, who was then the wife of Uriah, having a bath.

It is likely this included Uriah, as his name in Hebrew means " God is my light ".

Hansi always corrected her, since he claims to " not be at all angelic ", and that it is more properly stated " Demons and Wizards ", in reference to Uriah Heep's album of the same name ).

In this period the Hittites are mentioned as the ethnic label of two military commanders under king David ( around 1000 BC ), Ahimelech and Uriah ; the latter is murdered by David for the sake of his wife Bathsheba.

The National Museum of American History in Washington, DC is home to the Uriah A. Boyden Papers.

Not long before its release Daisley left the band to return to Ozzy Osbourne and Trevor Bolder re-joined Uriah Heep.

Although under David's order to return home and see his wife, Uriah repeatedly refused to leave his post or leave the King's presence to see her.

After other owners, in 1834 it was bought by Uriah P. Levy, a commodore in the US Navy, who admired Jefferson and spent his own money to preserve the property.

By this time Gerry Bron was Uriah Heep manager no longer ( they were looked after by Neil Warnock in Europe and Blue Oyster Cult's management team in the US ) and then, finally, Bronze Records collapsed under the weight of debts which, according to Box, " cost Heep a lot of money ".