Home › Entities › rock_band › Uriah Heep

Uriah Heep

British band
MusicGroup rock_band Q108666
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Summary

Uriah Heep is a rock band[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of rock band entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (18,107 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Genre: hard rock[3], progressive rock[4]
  • Named after: Uriah Heep[5]
  • Record label: Warner Bros. Records[6], Bronze[7], Chrysalis Records[8], Vertigo Records[9]
  • Discography: Uriah Heep discography[10]
  • Commons category: Uriah Heep[11]
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom[12]
  • Has part(s): Bernie Shaw[13], Mick Box[14], Davey Rimmer[15]
  • Inception: January 1, 1969[16]
  • Location of formation: London[17]
  • Official website: http://www.uriah-heep.com/[18]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Uriah Heep (band)[19]
  • Languages spoken, written or signed: English[20]
  • Topic has template: Template:Uriah Heep[21]
  • Different from: Uriah Heep[22]
  • Start of work period: 1969[23]
  • Member category: Category:Uriah Heep (band) members[24]
  • Social media followers: 8388[25], 51,300[26], 9117[27], 65,400[28], 72,400[29], 85,800[30], 95,000[31]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Group[32]

  • Country: GB[33]

  • Began / founded: 1970[34]

  • Genre(s): acoustic rock, classic rock, hard rock, heavy metal, progressive rock, rock[35]

  • Community tags: acoustic rock, british, classic rock, english, hard rock, heavy metal, progressive rock, rock[36]

  • MusicBrainz ID: f1548c5b-329e-4036-921c-02213a04b525[37]

Why It Matters

Uriah Heep has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] It is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]

Related Entities

Ken Hensley London United Kingdom Vertigo Records

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [32] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [33] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [34] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [35] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [36] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [37] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [38] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [39] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Uriah Heep. Retrieved October 16, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/uriah-heep
MLA “Uriah Heep.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 16 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/uriah-heep.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_uriah-heep_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Uriah Heep}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/uriah-heep}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-16}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): Uriah Heep — https://4ort.xyz/entity/uriah-heep (retrieved 2026-10-16)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/uriah-heep · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7d ago · Lensbirdie · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → Uriah heep 2011.jpg
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'ar', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'be', 'bg', 'bs', 'ca', 'chr', 'cs', 'da
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Image: Uriah heep 2011.jpg"
  2. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → +1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Svkkl authority id → k0003075-Uriah-Heep-hudebni-skupina
    Topic has template → Template:Uriah Heep
    Member category → Category:Uriah Heep (band) members
    + 26 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: k0003075-Uriah-Heep-hudebni-skupina, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259473|batch #259473]]"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.