Uriah Heep - from David Copperfield, is one of Charles Dickens's most malevolent creations and is the eighth in the Telegraph pick of the best Charles Dickens characters. A portrait of Uriah Heep ...

morphed into what we now know as Uriah Heep – taking their name from a character in Charles Dickens' David Copperfield. The pile-driver "Easy Livin'" hit the U.S. Top 40 and remains the band's ...

For roughly 120 years, Uriah Heep was just a fictional character in Charles Dickens’ famous novel David Copperfield – albeit a memorable one. As of June 13, 1970, however, that name would ...

In Charles Dickens’ 1950 novel, David Copperfield, the antagonist, Uriah Heep, was a bonafide sycophant. Using his innate flatterer to his advantage, Heep blackmailed lawyer and businessman Mr ...

When I first read David Copperfield as an impressionable 12-year-old who had watched her fair share of films, Uriah Heep struck me similar to most villains on the silver screen – a man spurred ...

so many more - obsequious Uriah Heep and school bullies and romances with ladies, right and wrong, not to mention lessons in class inequality. Dickens wrote of "David Copperfield" that it was in ...

(The manager) took his two sons to see a film adaptation of “David Copperfield,” and in that story you had Uriah Heep and he thought, “What better than a literary giant to take a name from.

Despite the critical pans, however, Uriah Heep — named after a character in Charles Dickens’ “David Copperfield” — is still with us. The quintet has amassed a catalog of 25 albums ...

We’ll have to find out. Is this the first adaptation of David Copperfield in which you are actually supposed to feel sympathy for Uriah Heep? I’m glad you asked that, because when you go back ...

whose name was derived from a character in Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield; a spokesperson for Uriah Heep could not be reached at press time for additional comment. He joined Heep in 1976 in ...