Is Roy Wood still alive?

One of my Facebook friends is Kevin Walsh of Forgotten NY blog and book.  He posted a video of one of my newer loves, Alvin Stardust on his Facebook wall.  In the comments someone mentioned Roy Wood.   The name was familiar but I couldn’t place him.  So I looked him up on Youtube:

I ask you, is it even humanly possible to forget THAT?!!?!

Apparently it is.  But I remember him now.

And somehow I thought of Russell Brand and I wondered if Roy Wood was a hero of his when he was growing up.  

5 thoughts on “Is Roy Wood still alive?”

  1. CGHill

    Roy Wood was a founder of the Move, a British band which never got any traction over here until they’d broken up. (“Do Ya” scraped into the lower reaches of the Hot 100.) Wood, original Move drummer Bev Bevan, and recently-arrived guitarist Jeff Lynne (he wrote “Do Ya”) reworked the Move into the Electric Light Orchestra, though Wood left after the first ELO album.

    Recommended Woodstuff: Introducing Eddy and the Falcons by Wizzard, a collection of 50/60s rock clichés;s given a modern gloss, and Wood’s solo album Boulders.

  3. Donna Post author

    I’m throwing Boulders on right now!

    I am not finding Introducing Eddy and the Falcons on Rhapsody… I did find The Best Of Roy Wood and Wizzard 1974-1976 – I ‘m gonna try to cobble together a sampler of IEANT from it.

  4. CGHill

    Hope for “This Is The Story of My Love (Baby),” which is what you’d get if Phil Spector produced the 4 Seasons, kinda sorta.

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