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Roy Wood was born in Kitts Green, Birmingham, England. 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.[8] His first group in Birmingham in the early 1960s was the Falcons, which he left in 1963 to join Gerry Levene and the Avengers. He then moved to Mike Sheridan and the Nightriders (the band later became the Idle Race). He attended the Moseley College of Art, but was expelled in 1964.[4]
Roy Wood From this basis, and other Birmingham-based groups, was formed the Move, and they quickly entered the UK Singles Chart. Their single “Night of Fear” climbed to No. 2 in early 1967.[9] Their third hit, “Flowers in the Rain”, was the first song played at the launch of BBC Radio 1 in 1967, and the band evolved over a three-year period.[4] After the departure of the Move’s lead singer Carl Wayne, Wood’s influence became more prominent. 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.
Roy Wood was keen on musical experimentation and was in this respect one of the most progressive musicians of his time, taking the ‘pop group’ into new areas. He 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 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 ….Roy Wood Source Wikipedia
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