After increasing tensions, Wood left in July 1972 at the start of the second album sessions, following a trip to Italy and formed a new group, Wizzard, which assembled cellists, brass players and a bigger rhythm section, with several drummers and percussionists. Early ELO concerts and formation of Wizzard ĮLO's early live performances were chaotic, due to both poor sound quality of the string instruments competing against the guitars and drums, as well as Wood's constant moving from instrument to instrument during the shows (playing bass, guitar, cello and saxophone). In 2017, the ELO line-up of Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne, Bev Bevan, and Richard Tandy were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The original intention was to split The Move at the end of 1970, but contractual obligations meant that both they and ELO existed together for a year, until the former finally broke up in June 1972. Whilst The Move were still together, Wood, along with his band colleagues Jeff Lynne and Bev Bevan, founded Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), which was later to gain major commercial success. Wood recorded his own version of "Songs of Praise", releasing it on the B-side of his 1973 single, " Dear Elaine". The group included the track on their album We'd Like to Teach the World to Sing. When performed by the New Seekers on the Cliff Richard vehicle It's Cliff Richard!, the song finished in last place with 3,842 votes. In early 1972, Wood's composition "Songs of Praise" was shortlisted by the BBC as one of six possible choices for the UK entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1972. Wood was keen on musical experimentation and was an early proponent of combining rock and roll and pop music with other styles, such as classical music, or the big band sound, and introduced classically styled string and brass sections into the pop record. In 1967, Wood (and fellow Move member Trevor Burton) supplied backing vocals on the track, "You Got Me Floatin'", on the Jimi Hendrix Experience's album Axis: Bold as Love. After the departure of The Move's lead singer Carl Wayne, Wood's influence became more prominent. Their third hit, " Flowers in the Rain", was the first song played by Tony Blackburn at the launch of BBC Radio 1 on September 30, 1967, and the band evolved over a three-year period. Their single "Night of Fear" climbed to No. The Move/ Electric Light Orchestra in 1972įrom this and other Birmingham-based groups, was formed The Move, and they quickly entered the UK Singles Chart. He attended the Moseley College of Art, but was expelled in 1964. He then moved to Mike Sheridan and the Nightriders (the band later became the Idle Race). His first group in Birmingham in the early 1960s was the Falcons, which he left in 1963 to join Gerry Levene and the Avengers. 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. Roy Wood was born on 8 November 1946 in Kitts Green, a suburb of Birmingham, England. Wood was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017 as a member of Electric Light Orchestra. In 2015, his long and eclectic career was recognised with the "Outer Limits" award at the Progressive Music Awards in London. In 2008, Wood was awarded an honorary doctorate for his contribution to rock and pop by the University of Derby. The BBC has described Wood as being "responsible for some of the most memorable sounds of the Seventies" and "credited as playing a major role in the glam rock, psychedelic and prog rock movements". Altogether he had more than 20 singles in the UK Singles Chart under various guises, including three UK No. As a songwriter, he contributed a number of hits to the repertoire of these bands. He was particularly successful in the 1960s and 1970s as member and co-founder of the Move, Electric Light Orchestra and Wizzard. Roy Wood (born 8 November 1946) is an English musician and singer-songwriter.
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