Roy Wood, The Wizzard! | Nigel meets Birmingham-born Rock 'n' Roll legend and hit maker 

Are you kidding, his Christmas classic (Wish it could be Christmas every day) makes him thousands in royalties every year, and it gets played on a loop constantly. He is given so much recognition from just that ONE song alone. And fans have followed his career for decades.

Because he looked like an idiot back in the day. The music was good but...

He migh not want to reveal his age but he's not far off 80 and looks great for it.

Big call

His ex elo partner .Jeff Lynne still looks and perform well

agreed @@John-du6ec

Lost all respect speaking to that buffoon.

Agreed. Why is he talking to this stiff ?

The best thing Roy did was leave ELO..... he got a couple of number one's with Wizzard, and ELO became legendary....

So he’s to blame for ELO, I’ll remember that .

@@alanthomson1227 Well, he’d take 1/3 of the blame I’m sure 😂

@@richardsutton1131 brilliant response , if only people were a bit more patient and waited for ELP NOT ELO . not a fan really , preferred the Nice but anyone better than ELO .

@@alanthomson1227 Each to their own my friend. ELP…. 🤣🤣

Very friendly then?

I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday. Is my favourite Christmas song ever ❤️ 💕 💗 💖 💙 😍 ❤️

@@sandraharding2624 👍😃

If you are a gammon freak then yeah I guess it was👍

@@silviodante3950 Your reply is senseless and stupid makes no sense whatsoever.

@@silviodante3950 By the way seeing some of your other comments you are obsessed with Gammon. 🐷🐖🐷

@@snowyowel7961 🤣🤣🤣 being called stupid by someone who like Nigel Farage. Priceless. Really hope you cam find happiness in your life at somepointm. Good luck gammon👍

@@snowyowel7961 I enjoy laughing at people as stupid as you👍

If anyone should get a KNIGHTHOOD it's Roy Wood, for what he's done for the music industry

On the never never in East London

Yes, we also used to call it "on the tick". Merry Christmas.

I think Nigel misconstrued it as knocked off.

bit ironic that a bloke flogging financial advice didn’t know that.

@@rockerjim8045 It's a colloquialism from a particular region, Birmingham. He's a city trader from London, how would he be expected to know that?

Boulders is still to this day my favourite album...

Elaine was the name of his one and only wife (I don't think that he married a second time). They divorced for whatever reason.

I thought his first wife's name was Maureen...I could be wrong though

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The performance is uploaded separately.

I've linked it here in the comments for reference@@misscoutts6193 Merry Christmas!

Don't bend down when Leo's in town because he'll stick his willy up your bum.

Conor!

He must not be a nonce

@@phucknuts.7065 he's definitely not a nonce! Knowing Woody he'd probably turn it down anyway...

He's a quiet polite gentleman. He don't need no gong

I believe that he was born in Kitts Green, which has the famous road called The Radleys.

NO! Roy Wood was a Brummie but Slade were a Wolverhampton band. Not quite Black Country, but definitely not Brummies.

Slade are from Wolverhampton

@@misscoutts6193 OK my mistake and i know the difference, it's just like us in Derby with Nottingham only 15 miles away (it's a football thing) Happy Christmas..

@@Canalcoholic Yes ,I know that now and I replied to @doravernon saying the same thing. We're still tribal, maybe it fits in with multiculturalism the Government promotes so happily. It reminds me of a time loading a van from a supplier in Birmingham and a little bloke reared up at me and said - I'm not from Birmingham I'm from the Black Country- lesson learned and that was 30+ years ago. We haven't moved on much have we? Happy Christmas.

Absolutely, I was lucky enough to see them live twice, once with the original line up and the second time after Jeff Lynne had joined the group.

"Woo oo. Woo oo."

At the time, The Move was down to a 3-piece band (Roy, Jeff & Bev Bevan). ELO was Roy's idea, and at the time he said that the aim was to continue where I Am The Walrus had left off - more orchestral stuff, etc. If you listen to the last Move album and the first ELO album, you'll hear this transition. The problem was 2 egos, each wanting to go in a different direction, so Roy left and formed Wizzard, Jeff & Bev (and others) carried on as ELO. ELO of course was (and still is) massively successful, and had Roy stayed I suspect that it would have been less commercially successful but more musically interesting and experimental. Roy remains one of the great unsung heroes of British music, and hasn't really had the recognition he deserves.

@@paulshepherd8295 Thanks so much for this information, much appreciated!

Jesus that was a shock, that’s just pissed off half my life

I was really looking forward to that as well, he is a great man and lives local to us and supports local businesses.

It's on separately.

I wouldn't say 'extremely'. Maybe he's not keen on being interviewed in front of a load of people

@@ka5269 yes. I just hope that's all it was because he was struggling to speak at times.

He’s probably wondering what teaming up with Farage is going to do with his Christmas royalties, followed and loved everything he’s ever done, it all seems like shit now, whatever

What year did this incident occur?

@@Black.Sabbath Sorry but I can not remember the exact year but was arround the 1980's and was in December while we were having a meal there one Sunday, as we both went to the toilet a bloke walked out with long hair and beared and motache, I mentioned to my Father in law that it looked like Roy Wood who was living in this area at the time, when going past the bar we asked the bar manager who confirmed it was Roy Wood who he said frequented this pub regularily