Mick Box

If you read it, you'll know that Uriah Heep was an untrustworthy, unlikable scoundrel.

As guitarist Mick Box said, "We were formed on the 100th anniversary of Charles Dickens.

There was publicity all over London s- to celebrate his birthday, so it seemed like a good idea." Another legendary group that got its name from a book, Supertramp.

The British art rockers got their name from W.H. Davies' 1908 memoir, The Autobiography of a Supertramp, in which the Welsh writer described his details womanizing and wandering and drinking.