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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".
Wizzard Brew: Wizzard "Green Glass Windows" 1981 Single Roy Wood's Helicopters "Hazel Eyes" 1974 Single Neil Reid "Hello Susie" 1970 Shazam: The Move "(Here We Go Round) The Lemon Tree" 1967 Single: The Idle Race "Hot Cars" 1987 Starting Up: Solo "Human Cannonball" 1975 Look Thru the Eyes of Roy Wood and Wizzard: Wizzard "I Can Hear the Grass ...
"Goin' Down the Road" has appeared on numerous compilation albums, including Wood's own Singles (1993, Connoisseur Records) [8] and The Wizzard!: Greatest Hits & More - The EMI Years. [9] The record still commands national radio play in the UK; the most recent airing being on BBC Radio 2's Pick of the Pops on 13 July 2019. [10]
Roy Wood was born on 8 November 1947 [6] in Kitts Green, a suburb of Birmingham, England.For some years the legend persisted that his real name was Ulysses Adrian Wood, until it was revealed that this was probably the result of somebody close to the Move in their early days filling in such names on a 'lifelines' feature for the press as a joke.
Wizzard scored four top 10 singles during the year, which included the number-one hits "See My Baby Jive" and "Angel Fingers (A Teen Ballad)", as well as their Christmas classic "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday", which peaked at number four for four consecutive weeks. 10cc achieved the first of their three UK number-one singles in June of ...
Feeling nervous as the band were about to go on stage for a television spot for the song, Wood spontaneously combed his hair out to make it look wild and applied black-and-white makeup with a star in the middle of his forehead, thus birthing the "Wizzard" image he would use extensively in his post-Move career and helping define The Move's image ...
Strange Magic: The Best of Electric Light Orchestra is a compilation album by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), released in 1995 only in the US.. The compilation favours album versions rather than single versions; tracks such as "Rock 'n' Roll Is King", "Shine a Little Love" and "Boy Blue" are longer.
Originally released exclusively in the band's home market (the UK), the album sold very well, becoming the ELO's first top-ten entry since Dino Records' compilation album The Very Best of the Electric Light Orchestra hit number 4 in 1994.