Roy Wood
Roy Wood
Roy Wood is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was particularly successful in the 1960s and 1970s as member and co-founder of the Move, Electric Light Orchestra and Wizzard. As a songwriter, he contributed a number of hits to the repertoire of these bands...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth8 November 1946
reading book way
I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.
playing
I think we were probably playing live for about 12 months before we got a recording deal.
bands changed less members named sort
I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose.
song way eras
To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the new doing all sort of fanfare things in it and it works really well. It goes down great with audiences.
thinking should-have years
We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.
beach boys power
Well, obviously I wanted it to sound as original as possible. I suppose the influences that we had were probably from the actual power point of view we wanted to be like the Who. Vocally we wanted to be like the Beach Boys, whatever was good at the time.
everybody motown playing sang
When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way. Everybody in the band sang and we did a lot of harmonies.