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Roy Wood (born 8 November 1947) is an English musician, singer and songwriter. ... Wood also made a one-off rock and roll medley single with Phil Lynott, ...
"Rock 'n' Roll Winter (Loony's Tune)" was a song written by Roy Wood. It was released by the British rock band Wizzard, as their first single on the Warner Bros label in 1974. [2] It was originally meant to be issued early in 1974 but the date was pushed back to 29 March 1974, before it was finally released on 19 April that year.
Roy Wood - Music Book: Roy Wood Rock & Roll Band "Night of Fear" 1966 Single The Move "Oh What a Shame" 1975 Single Solo "Olympic Flyer" 1980 Single Solo "Omnibus" 1968 Single The Move "On Top of the World" 1985 Single Solo "O.T.T." 1982 Single Solo "The Premium Bond Theme" 1974 Single Solo "The Rain Came Down on Everything" 1975 Mustard: Solo
Wizzard were an English rock band formed by Roy Wood, former member of the Move and co-founder of the Electric Light Orchestra. The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits states, "Wizzard was Roy Wood just as much as Wings was Paul McCartney." [1] They are most famous for their 1973 Christmas single "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday".
Roy Wood recorded Boulders from 1969 to 1971 at Phonogram Studios and Abbey Road Studios, London.He was still a member of the Move at the time, who he formed some three years before work on Boulders began, [4] and intended the album to be whimsical and childlike in order to represent a "creative holiday" from the band, [5] who were experiencing their commercial peak at the time. [6]
[3] [4] For most of their career The Move were led by guitarist, singer and songwriter Roy Wood. He wrote all the group's UK singles and, from 1968, also sang lead vocals on many songs. Initially, the band had four main vocalists (Wood, Carl Wayne, Trevor Burton, and Chris "Ace" Kefford) who divided the lead-vocal duties among themselves. [3]
According to Wood, while Mustard is the follow-up album to Boulders, it is "also quite a different mixture of songs". [6] Unlike Boulders – which Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes as a pastoral, homemade-style "collection of pop vignettes" – Mustard is a more fully fledged pop album, lessening the amount of studio effects and absurdist humour in favour of a grander sound, with chiming ...
"California Man" is a song by British rock and roll band The Move. It was written by the band's guitarist/vocalist Roy Wood, who has said he wrote it as a pastiche of Little Richard (Wood's favourite musician of the time) and Jerry Lee Lewis (Move pianist/guitarist/vocalist Jeff Lynne's favourite musician at the time).