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Roy Wood

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I think we were probably playing live for about 12 months before we got a recording deal.


— Roy Wood


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I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.


— Roy Wood


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Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was quite funny.


— Roy Wood


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The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant.


— Roy Wood


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The first people I ever saw were probably Little Richard and Gene Vincent.


— Roy Wood


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We happened to be in the studio next door and I think Noel Redding came around and said, 'Do you fancy having a sing on this?' We just went and did it and it was great.


— Roy Wood


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We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.


— Roy Wood


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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.


— Roy Wood


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"Goin' Down the Road" (1974) – UK No. 13
"Look Thru' the Eyes of a Fool" (1975)
"Any Old Time Will Do" (1976)
"Keep Your Hands on the Wheel" (1978)
"(We're) On the Road Again" (1979)
"Rock City" – Helicopters (1980)
"Sing Out the Old — Bring In the New" (1980)
"Green Glass Windows" – Roy Wood's Helicopters (1981)
"Down to Zero" (1981)
"It's Not Easy" (1982)
"O. In 1976 Wood recorded The Beatles songs "Lovely Rita" and "Polythene Pam" for the ill-fated musical documentary All This and World War II.

Roy Wood (born 8 November 1946) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He was particularly successful in the 1960s and 1970s as member and co-founder of the bands The Move Electric Light Orchestra and Wizzard.

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