Roy Wood

   
Artist: Roy Wood

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Pop
   Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Through the Years: The Best of Roy Wood

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 18


   
 On the Road Again

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 10


   
 The Best of Roy Wood and Wizzard

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 17


   
 The Definite Album...

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 19


   
 Starting Up

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 9


   
 Mustard

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 16

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Roy Wood, natural in Birmingham, England, on November 8, 1946 (whose birth name is oftentimes incorrectly listed as Ulysses Adrian Wood due to a flip comment made in an interview), has tenacious been regarded as one of the most important, if character, rock candy musicians to have descend out of that metropolis, mainly for his office as the leader/co-founder of both the Move and the Electric Light Orchestra.


Grant Wood took up the guitar in his early teens, and the first "successful" band of which he was a phallus was Gerry Levene & the Avengers, which in reality got to record a single. They skint up in mid-1964, and Wood coupled Mike Sheridan & the Nightriders. During this period, Wood tended to the Moseley College of Art, from which he was expelled in 1964. That same year, he organized the Move, with Bev Bevan (drums), Carl Wayne (jumper lead vocals), Ace Kefford (bass), and Trevor Burton (guitar). The band was fortunate enough to land a residency at London's Marquee Club, where they began to build an enthusiastic following.


Woodwind instrument contributed nigh of the songs and eventually many of the vocals to the Move. Their single "Night of Fear" rosiness to number two on the U.K. charts in early 1967. The mathematical group evolved over the ensuing troika years, eventually comme il faut a quartette. Later, the mathematical group added guitarist Jeff Lynne and passed through and through psychedelic, progressive, and lowering metal phases on albums such as Shazam, Message from the Country, and Looking for On, which were popular in England just virtually strange in America. Their legal embraced everything from quaint rock & roll, including Duane Eddy and tied some doo ginzo influences, merely as well displayed Beatles-style harmonies and lyrical complexity.


By 1971, Wood had developed ideas and ambitions that were excessively wide-cut to be embraced by whatever unitary dance orchestra, and proposed the formation of an offset of the Move called the Electric Light Orchestra. The group's eponymic debut was released on the Harvest label in England to strong critical favorable reception and nice gross sales -- so, the novel band seemed to attract more sober attention than the Move had been getting. Originally ELO and the Move were to have existed incline by incline, merely ELO supplanted the Move, and the latter ceased to exist. Wood exited shortly after, departure ELO in the manpower of Lynne and Bevan, and went off on his have to mannikin Wizzard.


Wizzard's first undivided, "Ballpark Incident," combined the Move's voiceless rock with a texture evocative of Phil Spector's "wall of sound" productions, and blush wine to number six on the British charts. In April of 1973, Wizzard reached number nonpareil with "See My Baby Jive," a success duplicated by the follow-up, "Angel Fingers." Unfortunately, the band's first album, Wizzard's Brew, didn't transportation near as well, beingness a highly experimental body of do work. The group's fortunes, tied as a singles band, faltered later this, partially because of Wood's decision to cover recording and cathartic records under his own name in addition to his work with Wizzard. His Phil Spector-ish "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" reached number quaternary in England in 1973, and "Evermore" made it to number octad the same year. The Wizzard albums See My Baby Jive and Eddie & the Falcons were both critical and commercial failures, and the unsuccessful release of the latter light-emitting diode to the death of the mathematical group. Meanwhile, Wood's own solo albums, Boulders (1973) and Mustard (1975), were excessively idiosyncratic to accomplish major followings.


The Roy Wood Story (Harvest), released in 1976, summed up his career with EMI Records and performed well as a best-of. His subsequent records, On the Road (1979) and Starting Up (1987), failed to reach anything like the success of his early-'70s work, and since then Wood has become i of the more elusive active musicians of his generation, although he continued to criminal record into the 1990s.