Uriah Heep
Americannoun
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There’s no denying the pleasure of seeing Dickens’s Peggottys transformed into the kindly Peggots, or his oily villain Uriah Heep recast as a sniveling assistant football coach named U-Haul Pyles.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2022
Ken Hensley, best known as the keyboardist, guitarist and songwriter for the British hard rock band Uriah Heep, died on Wednesday at age 75.
From Fox News ● Nov. 5, 2020
Former Uriah Heep keyboard player Ken Hensley has died at the age of 75.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2020
Similarly, Ben Whishaw’s quietly slinking Uriah Heep, squinting from beneath pudding-bowl bangs, is a creepy joy.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2020
The school attended by Uriah Heep and his father before him was described as an attack on the practice of instilling into the minds of poor children the consciousness of subserviency.
From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
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