Displaying His Favors Once More: Roy Wood's Mustard
Alan Betrock, Phonograph Record, December 1975
WHEN OLIVER Ulyses Adrian ('Roy') Wood joined the ranks of Birmingham's professional musicians back in 1964, few observers could have guessed that he would evolve into one of pop music's most influential innovators.
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