Roy Wood
UK
Born: 08 November 1946
Genres: Pop/Rock
Styles: Rock & Roll, Rock & Roll/Roots, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Pop/Rock, Glam Rock, Hard Rock, Album Rock
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Roy Wood, born in Birmingham, England, on November 8, 1946 (whose birth name is oftentimes incorrectly listed as Ulysses Adrian Wood due to a flip comment made in an interview), has long been regarded as one of the most important, if eccentric, rock musicians to have come out of that city, primarily for his role as the leader/co-founder of both the Move and the Electric Light Orchestra. Wood took up the guitar in his early teens, and the first "successful" band of which he was a member was Gerry Levene & the Avengers, which actually got to rec...
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- Wizzard (3)
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