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Uriah Heep recruited bassist Trevor Bolder ( ex-David Bowie, Mick Ronson ) and, after having auditioned David Coverdale ( Deep Purple, Whitesnake ), Ian Hunter and Gary Holton ( Heavy Metal Kids ), brought in John Lawton, formerly of Lucifer's Friend and the Les Humphries Singers, with whom they turned away from fantasy-oriented lyrics and multi-part compositions back toward a more straightforward hard rock sound typical of the era.
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Uriah and Heep
* 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.
Uriah and recruited
In 1982, John Sykes was recruited by former Uriah Heep frontman John Sloman, for his new band Badlands, alongside his future Whitesnake bandmate Neil Murray.
Uriah and bassist
* Uriah Duffy ( born 1975 ), American bassist
The band was composed of singer / bassist John Wetton ( formerly of King Crimson, Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry's band and Uriah Heep ), keyboardist / electric violinist Eddie Jobson ( formerly of Curved Air, Roxy Music and Frank Zappa's band ), guitarist Allan Holdsworth ( formerly of Tempest, Soft Machine, The New Tony Williams Lifetime and Gong ) and drummer Bill Bruford ( formerly of Yes and King Crimson ), later replaced by drummer Terry Bozzio ( formerly of Frank Zappa's band ).
After the breakup of The New Nadir, guitarist and lead vocalist Ed Carter moved to California to play for the Beach Boys, bassist Gary Thain joined the Keef Hartley Band, and then Uriah Heep before dying of a overdose in 1975.
Uriah and Trevor
Not long before its release Daisley left the band to return to Ozzy Osbourne and Trevor Bolder re-joined Uriah Heep.
Mick Box and Trevor Bolder, of Uriah Heep, invited Byron to re-join the band in 1981, after Ken Hensley left, but Byron refused.
Uriah and Bolder
Bolder, who by that time " had had enough of Gerry Bron and the management ", decided to join Wishbone Ash and when Dechert left, Uriah Heep were down to just Mick Box with the name and contract.
Uriah and Bowie
Early musical influences included Uriah Heep, Queen, Johnny Cash, Toto, Elton John, David Bowie, and Peter Gabriel.
Uriah and Mick
Spice ( 1967-1969, originally The Stalkers ) was the immediate precursor to English rock band Uriah Heep, featuring David Byron ( vocals ), Mick Box ( guitar ), Paul Newton ( bass guitar ), and Alex Napier ( drums ) ( Napier was a replacement for drummer Nigel Pegrum ; Pegrum would later join folk rock stalwarts Steeleye Span ).
Uriah and after
Uriah Levy's estate recovered the property after the war.
Soon after going out of hospital Thain in Sounds openly accused manager Gerry Bron of having turned Uriah Heep into a mere " financial thing " and was promptly fired.
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 ".
Mel Galley toured one last time after Pete Goalby left to sing for Uriah Heep in 1981, then went on to play for Whitesnake, leaving Trapeze disbanded by late 1982.
It was bought by a former admiral, Uriah Phillips, who left it in 1862 to the New York Historical Society, where it was miscatalogued as by Gilbert Stuart and remained inaccessible until the mistake was uncovered in 2006, after an enquiry by Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, a professor of art history at the University of Delaware.
It was named after Uriah A. Boyden, who in 1879 left in his will $ 238, 000 to Harvard Observatory to be used for astronomical purposes.
James also became fascinated with and tinkered with turbine designs, after Uriah A. Boyden first demonstrated his Boyden turbine in Lowell.
His disciplinary problems continued when he was warned by the Football Association over his future conduct ; this came after he admitted a charge of improper conduct in relation to comments made about referee Uriah Rennie after a 3 – 1 defeat at Tottenham Hotspur in December.
A day later on 15 December he was sent off in a derby match against Bristol City after a foul on Bristol goalkeeper Adriano Basso by referee Uriah Rennie, who was heavily criticised by Dave Jones for his handling of the game.
Anyway, it's safe to say that after this neither David Byron nor Uriah Heep were ever the same.
It was given a permanent site on the John Peters Road Extension off the Uriah Butler Highway a couple of years after.
Soon after his departure, Murray briefly formed an outfit called Badlands ( not to be confused with the American band featuring Jake E. Lee ) behind Uriah Heep's John Sloman on vocals and future Thin Lizzy's John Sykes on guitars.
The Uriah Butler Highway, sometimes referred to as UBH, is one of the major north-south highways in Trinidad and Tobago, named after Tubal Uriah Butler.
It was announced over the public address system as the teams came back onto the pitch after half time: " Welcome to the second half of the Uriah Rennie show ".
His late uncle Uriah P. Levy had purchased the property in 1834, several years after Jefferson's death.
In 1879, after buying out the other heirs of his uncle Uriah P. Levy for $ 10, 050, Jefferson Levy took control of Monticello ( formerly the plantation of Thomas Jefferson ).
* Jones, Uriah, served until early 1938 ; after the disbanding of the Poum militia joined Psuc unit
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