Wizzard
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Review by Mark Leviton, Phonograph Record, February 1973
...AND I WAS STILL raving about it the next week: And they had this piano player (assulter more like it) named Pianos Demolished who pounded ...
Profile and Interview by Andrew Means, Melody Maker, 10 February 1973
ROY WOOD is one of those rare musicians who has never lost sight of the excitement and imagination that make rock worthwhile. ...
Wizzard: Wizzard Brew/Electric Light Orchestra: ELO 2 (Harvest)
Review by Phil Hardy, Let It Rock, June 1973
COMMERCIALLY the death of the Move has been very successful: both Wizzard and the ELO have had top ten hits. ...
Report by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 30 June 1973
ANDREW TYLER Investigates the growing thuggery in concert halls the world over. And gets points of view from the stars, bouncers and the companies who ...
Wizzard On Tour: Where’s The Backpipes?
Report and Interview by Ed Jones, Cracker, October 1973
THE ACREAGE OF FADED DENIM at the Edinburgh University Student centre of a Friday night is truly staggering. Staggering too are the majority of the ...
Overview by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 26 January 1974
"Liverpool today – Birmingham tomorrow. That's the forecast for the beat business in rock music. Yes, the Brum Beat is all set to take over ...
Interview by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 9 March 1974
He's been called the Al Capone of pop, and the reputation's, shall we say, a little heavy. A nervous Robert Partridge talks to Don Arden... ...
Report and Interview by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 23 May 1974
Nouveau Rock Bops British Charts ...
Move, Wizzard, ELO Play Musical Chairs
Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 15 September 1974
THE TASK is somehow to connect and make a little sense of this odd assortment of data: A once musically booming English industrial city, home ...
Review by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, November 1974
FOR A MUSICIAN of his acknowledged brilliance, Roy Wood has shown an inordinate interest in paying tribute to the past works of others. ...
The Move: California Man; Electric Light Orchestra: Showdown; Wizzard: See My Baby Jive
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 14 December 1974
IN WHICH it begins to look disturbingly like influences are dangerous toys indeed. ...
Roy Wood: Yeah Roy, But What Do You Sound Like?
Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 25 January 1975
THERE WAS the time that Roy Wood shoved his jeans in the washing machine and ended up with one very wet, very tattered and very ...
Displaying His Favors Once More: Roy Wood's Mustard
Review by 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 ...
Wizzard: Making 'I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day'
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Q, January 1996
Mike Burney (sax, Wizzard): I'd been doing really boring big band gigs on the ballroom circuit so when Roy offered me a job in Wizzard ...
Roy Wood: The Santa Claus Of Pop Music
Retrospective and Interview by Terry Staunton, Sunday Express, 11 December 2011
TRIPS TO the supermarket can take twice as long in December when you're Roy Wood. The humdrum chore of grocery shopping is constantly interrupted by ...
Killer Riffs: A Guide to Parody in Popular Music
Essay by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 19 October 2016
From the Residents' freakish Beatles sendups, to Spinal Tap's meta-metal escapades, to the gastronomic goofs of "Weird Al", a chronicle of those who have turned ...
see also Move, The
see also Roy Wood
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