One day, Gerry Bron, manager of an unknown rock band Spice suggested that the musicians could change the name of their band to Uriah Heep, a villain-like character of the David Copperfield novel.

The tale of David Copperfield from his birth and idyllic ... including Mr. Micawber, Uriah Heep, Steerforth, and others.

Uriah Heep enjoyed their heyday in the 1970s ... The band took its name from a character in the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield. Speaking to Eon Music in an interview published last ...