Remember as a teenager watching this on TV and when I said I loved Roy Wood my dad said how can you love someone who looks like that - nearly 50 years ago. I still love him. What a voice and a talent.
I had the biggest crush on Roy back in the 70s I’m 63 now and still have a big crush,he wrote songs for my cousin many years ago when the practiced together in my cousins cellar,the phone rang one day and this voice asked for my cousin as I was on holiday in Wolverhampton and I said who is speaking please and he said tell him it’s Roy I had no idea it was Roy wood until my cousin told me it was Roy wood,I was in awe of him lol 😂absolutely love him to this day. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
In January 81 I went to see the ELO Twilight Tour at Birmingham NEC. As the crowd was filling up, from my seat high up on one side, I saw Roy walking to his front row seat. I shouted "Roy!" at the top of my voice. He turned and gave me the "Thumbs Up"
Wizzard again offer maximalism on their second UK No.1 of the year. "Angel Fingers" is a stomping sprawling rock ’n ’roll pastiche, that keeps flinging out hooks at us, simply not knowing when to stop. Fabuloso glorious grotesquerie.
Oh I was looking for something .... something ... to bring back the color into my life, then I youtubed the music of my break out years, 1970 to 1974. Marc Bolan, Sweet, Slade and Wizard. Lest I forget! Thank-you to those who made this redemption possible.
I was at school in the late 60s when Roy was in the charts with The move. I'm now retired but the man is still banging out the tunes so a knighthood please for this giant of rock !
@@nealfisher3575 He had a solo album out called Mustard in 1975 and he's made music with The Wizzo Band and Roy Wood's Helicopters, also a solo album called On The Road Again.
And this - THIS is an rockandroll in the permanent way it can be at all!!!! Thank God i have be there this time to meet this shalla-lalla, the things you do, Angel Fingers, girl!!
Roy Wood und Wizzard waren für mich damals eine musikalische Offenbarung. Meine erste Single war See my baby Jive. Ich habe alles von ihnen und werde es so lange hören wie ich hören kann.
Roy and " his Wizzard" is phantastic, forever......!!!!!!!.Great songs, he made, and "Angel fingers" is one of his best songs!!!!! For eternity, Roy.Wood!!!! .....
Proving there is more to roy wood than 'wish it could be christmas everyday ' , this roy at the same strengths he was good at .Writing Producing,playiing on all the instruments .
My fiancee recently turned me on to Wizzard. For as much as I love music, I never knew anything about Roy Wood or Wizzard. I'm so happy she turned me on to them.
I was just 13 when this hit the top spot. What more could an emerging teenager want to hear but all this wonderful fun & madness? Now I'm nearing 60 & all of their brilliant singles are totally ingrained in my brain now & there's nothing I can do about it. When people say to me 'you're a bit mad...but a fun mad tho', I just say 'blame Roy Wood & a whole lot of other masters & mistresses of glam rock for this condition!! It's the ones that don't know they're mad that you gotta watch out for.
What a voice and he was so underrated. I still listening to him now. We were spoilt fir choice with all the great groups and even better music. I loved Roy Wood ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I go back a long way with Roy, once I got interested in Wizzard, I went to listen to his solo stuff, his work with the formation of ELO, and of course what he did with the Move. I am just a great fan of the `pop' single of the 70's and 80's, and after waiting many years, have sadly come to the conclusion that nothing of that style is ever going to be written again. I've tried to get into the contemporary stuff, i.e. 90's Boyband/Girlband/Boy-Girlband up to present day but I can't just bring myself for the most part to enjoy any of it. Something has happened that I've often pondered long and hard about - Am I just not `with it' or is it mainly crap? I tend to think the latter and I mainly blame the Media. The art of song writing has been dumbed down to such a point that we now have the `too daft to laugh at' situation of someone like Ed Sheeren having 9 singles in the top 10. Somebody will then come along and tell me that this proves that he is better and/or more popular than the Beatles!! More to the point this stuff gets onto radio playlists. We need to rebel against it, even if it means not listening to radio 2, and DEMAND that we get a decent DAB/FM Gold station (that everybody can receive) where we can listen to the music we grew up with and WANT to listen to. The kids, if you give them the chance, with gravitate towards listening to good, well written songs if they are there to be listened to. Then who knows what the next new musical generation might be influenced by and come up with. Where is the next Roy Wood going to come from if all you have to do now is press a couple of buttons on a keyboard and your next single's done for you? Yes I fully agree - Sir Roy of Birmingham!
@@changstein Much obliged to you for your confirmation of my not being `with it' and then pointing me towards music 30 years old. I'm a guitarist myself and am aware of Jeff Buckley.
should have been SIR ROY WOOD bloody years ago, underated and never respected for the music this man has made with the move elo wizzard and his solo stuff, not even a achivement award at the so called brits.........disgusting
Have always loved his songs from The Move through to Wizard and ELO but never seen him live. That all changes tomorrow night in Glasgow. Sure to be brilliant.
I saw him last December what a legend...rocked the building. Was lucky enough to meet him after the show and shake his hand and talk to him. I gave him a portrait I had drawn of himself as a Teddy boy as a promo for this song, he loved it. A complete gentleman and a lovely lovely person too!
The first live band I ever saw, Caird Hall, Dundee, I even guessed that "Ball Park Incident" would be the opening song. we had a Joke shop including fancy dress, where they got their novelty costumes from. Happy memories for me, thank you.
As much as I love Jeff Lynne, Roy Wood is the mad scientist in the lab late at night germinating bands like The Move, and Electric Light Orchestra. He’s the true musical genius
@Christopher Bingham Only for Roy Wood jeff would of been stil in idle race no hits joining the move was good move for him and beinging under don arden management the rest is history.
@@christopherbingham5092 Really? I somehow think that the sheer number of times 'I Wish It Could Be Christmas..' gets played every year owes nothing to ELO. And the there's 'See My Baby Jive' ... and then 'Blackberry Way' (both number one hits, along with Angel Fingers)..
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Those were the days.
Roy Wood's Wall of Sound! The guy was and still is a musical genius
yes he is!
Hero to millions
Sure was
steve FromEngland
Roy Wood & Phil Spector with a hint of Brian Wilson
wall of sound - what a great phrase- I agree
Ball Park Incident. California Man. For Ever. Man, these songs take me back. If you get this, then you’re my age. Had it good, didn’t we?
Blood oath
The WONDERFUL Roy Wood.. ..
you got your money’s worth when you bought one of his singles great times
Remember as a teenager watching this on TV and when I said I loved Roy Wood my dad said how can you love someone who looks like that - nearly 50 years ago. I still love him. What a voice and a talent.
Ha ha ha dads eh ?
My dad said the same about Madness when they sang Night Boat To Cairo. He always called them Up The River Nile and said they won't last 40 years 😂😂
Lol, yup. Dads, gotta love em
😂😂
Looks like what?
The World badly needs more Roy Wood!
A time when every band in the charts had character, and Roy Wood had the most.
A true legend, the likes we won’t see again.
My hero ❤
Love this song. Roy wood is a genius.
👍👍👍👍👍👍
ok
loved the song Forever
MASTERPEICE.
What a talent....
The move, elo, wizzard, what is there not to like.......
Roy your a genius......
Awesome forever😊
I had the biggest crush on Roy back in the 70s I’m 63 now and still have a big crush,he wrote songs for my cousin many years ago when the practiced together in my cousins cellar,the phone rang one day and this voice asked for my cousin as I was on holiday in Wolverhampton and I said who is speaking please and he said tell him it’s Roy I had no idea it was Roy wood until my cousin told me it was Roy wood,I was in awe of him lol 😂absolutely love him to this day.
❤❤❤❤❤❤
Oh no! I've been there. Mine was "Just tell him Tony Hopkins rang back..." Me (jotting): "Tony...Hopkins...yeah, all right, bye."
Chaotic, delicious Wizzard. Roy Wood didn't put a foot (or note) wrong in his career. Sadly, shamefully overlooked talent.
In January 81 I went to see the ELO Twilight Tour at Birmingham NEC. As the crowd was filling up, from my seat high up on one side, I saw Roy walking to his front row seat. I shouted "Roy!" at the top of my voice. He turned and gave me the "Thumbs Up"
Roy Wood one word .. LEGEND
How I wish there were musicians like him around today.
This Up There With The Beatles And The Stones What A Epic Pop Song Roy Wood What A Legend 👍🎷
Will DION still be important to you on your wedding day! What a line!!!
Great bloke is Roy had few pints with him in the pub down to earth
Crazy overproduction, I just love it! Por favor from sunny Spain!
I loved "See my Baby Jive", "Angel Fingers" and "I wish it could be Christmas Everyday". Wizzard was big in New Zealand where I was a teenager.
I couldn't agree more, 79 soon, still appreciate Roy Wood x❤
Roy Wood, Forever, nuff said..
Absolute genious. Should be knighted
Totally agree, they should do it now before anything happens.
I loved this as a teenager back in 1973, and still love it today. Roy Wood was brilliant.
I LOVE THIS SONG BRINGS BACK MY TEENAGE YEARS I LOVE ROY WOOD
thought the same plus see my baby yive oh to go back to then
Ah Jayne, me too 😍
Me too
@@janefraser8964 i,m there now
👍👍👍
Roy paying tribute to the Spector Wall of Sound here. Dave Edmunds was doing the same thing in the same year. This was a deserved No.1 for Wizzard.
A true Rock 'n' Roll love story
The late great cellist, Hugh McDowell, member of BOTH Wizzard and ELO.
Great tempo I loved dancing tu it in de hay day 😊
The Talented Roy Wood founding member of The Move..ELO and Wizzard. 💕💕
My favourite band back in the 1970s still playing viynl today loved wizzard . Roy wood
hey im vinyl man
Wizzard again offer maximalism on their second UK No.1 of the year.
"Angel Fingers" is a stomping sprawling rock ’n ’roll pastiche, that keeps flinging out hooks at us, simply not knowing when to stop.
Fabuloso glorious grotesquerie.
One of the best of British, so much musical talent like many of the seventies artists not like the shite of today.
Great music from a great man. That was real music from a real genius. If only the music today was as good. Rock on Roy. Susan ❤❤
Omg, its a joyous song , thank you roy
Roy is an absolute genius, this is such a great track too, it's got absolutely everything thrown into it, superb!
I remember this pop song 🎵 in the 70s.Good pop classic. Roll back the 70s
Oh I was looking for something .... something ... to bring back the color into my life, then I youtubed the music of my break out years, 1970 to 1974. Marc Bolan, Sweet, Slade and Wizard. Lest I forget! Thank-you to those who made this redemption possible.
Roy and Wizzard cared so much about the music but not about fashion, brilliant.🕊
Fantastic nobody has ever been in the same league as him
I was at school in the late 60s when Roy was in the charts with The move. I'm now retired but the man is still banging out the tunes so a knighthood please for this giant of rock !
It's long overdue.
He's done nothing since 1974.
ME TOO and a Knighthood long over due for this man
@@nealfisher3575 He had a solo album out called Mustard in 1975 and he's made music with The Wizzo Band and Roy Wood's Helicopters, also a solo album called On The Road Again.
@Coogan 👍👍
My God , the great music times. Those Birmingham boys , The Move , Roy Wood , Jeff Lynne , ELO produced such amazing music that lives on forever.
Love this era of Roy Wood and pop music.....😎
All time musical hero, the great Roy Wood. I can't watch/listen to his stuff without smiling - what's not to like ! 😁
Oh Lord. Please let me have just one night in the pub with Roy and those lads on stage - Talk about Crazy Gang! What a night that would be.....
Like stepping into a time machine, great memories come flooding back.
One of the most underappreciated, underrated no1s but also one of the very best
Fantastic song. Wizard were great
GREAT MAN
What an absolute legend!
This is in my top 5 songs of the 1970s.
And this - THIS is an rockandroll in the permanent way it can be at all!!!! Thank God i have be there this time to meet this shalla-lalla, the things you do, Angel Fingers, girl!!
Cannot be more true! This is R&R !! Crazy, loud and fckg mad!
Roy Wood und Wizzard waren für mich damals eine musikalische Offenbarung. Meine erste Single war See my baby Jive. Ich habe alles von ihnen und werde es so lange hören wie ich hören kann.
His Royness! Spotted many years ago in Ballet shoes, picking up a Take Away in Highbridge Road, Boldmere, near Sutton Coldfield..
A great brummie band, I'm from solihull, that's close enough to qualify.
Brilliant 👏🏻👏🏻🍻
Brilliant,I bought this single all those years ago,still love it now at 62!.
Roy and " his Wizzard" is phantastic, forever......!!!!!!!.Great songs, he made, and "Angel fingers" is one of his best songs!!!!! For eternity, Roy.Wood!!!! .....
Proving there is more to roy wood than 'wish it could be christmas everyday ' , this roy at the same strengths he was good at .Writing Producing,playiing on all the instruments .
What a group wizard was . Utterly amazing music and singing. Roy has a nice tone to his voice.
My fiancee recently turned me on to Wizzard. For as much as I love music, I never knew anything about Roy Wood or Wizzard. I'm so happy she turned me on to them.
I was just 13 when this hit the top spot. What more could an emerging teenager want to hear but all this wonderful fun & madness? Now I'm nearing 60 & all of their brilliant singles are totally ingrained in my brain now & there's nothing I can do about it. When people say to me 'you're a bit mad...but a fun mad tho', I just say 'blame Roy Wood & a whole lot of other masters & mistresses of glam rock for this condition!! It's the ones that don't know they're mad that you gotta watch out for.
What a voice and he was so underrated. I still listening to him now. We were spoilt fir choice with all the great groups and even better music. I loved Roy Wood ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you
So many fab memories!
Brilliant, never tire of hearing Wizzard, that's what you call sax 🎷appeal ♥️
Roy Spector..... great stuff.
That cello Hugh McDowell is playing seems to have a very slim body. Loved Roy and Wizzard. So original.
I go back a long way with Roy, once I got interested in Wizzard, I went to listen to his solo stuff, his work with the formation of ELO, and of course what he did with the Move. I am just a great fan of the `pop' single of the 70's and 80's, and after waiting many years, have sadly come to the conclusion that nothing of that style is ever going to be written again. I've tried to get into the contemporary stuff, i.e. 90's Boyband/Girlband/Boy-Girlband up to present day but I can't just bring myself for the most part to enjoy any of it. Something has happened that I've often pondered long and hard about - Am I just not `with it' or is it mainly crap? I tend to think the latter and I mainly blame the Media. The art of song writing has been dumbed down to such a point that we now have the `too daft to laugh at' situation of someone like Ed Sheeren having 9 singles in the top 10. Somebody will then come along and tell me that this proves that he is better and/or more popular than the Beatles!! More to the point this stuff gets onto radio playlists. We need to rebel against it, even if it means not listening to radio 2, and DEMAND that we get a decent DAB/FM Gold station (that everybody can receive) where we can listen to the music we grew up with and WANT to listen to. The kids, if you give them the chance, with gravitate towards listening to good, well written songs if they are there to be listened to. Then who knows what the next new musical generation might be influenced by and come up with. Where is the next Roy Wood going to come from if all you have to do now is press a couple of buttons on a keyboard and your next single's done for you? Yes I fully agree - Sir Roy of Birmingham!
Clyde B well said! 😎
100% correct
Girls Aloud had some great pop singles in the 2000s. "The Promise" comes to mind, it's kind of a 60s girl group pastiche.
you are correct - you simply are not "with it"
go listen to jeff buckley if you want some great 90s music
@@changstein Much obliged to you for your confirmation of my not being `with it' and then pointing me towards music 30 years old. I'm a guitarist myself and am aware of Jeff Buckley.
Genius. Roy Wood a truly an incredible musician .
should have been SIR ROY WOOD bloody years ago, underated and never respected for the music this man has made with the move elo wizzard and his solo stuff, not even a achivement award at the so called brits.........disgusting
Come, now! Surely it should be Baron Wood of Ashbourne, or even Lord High Wizzard of Derby?
he should be given something
Agreed!
totally agree
Totally agree there, shame, real shame.
I remember going to see Wizzard at the Sutton Odeon and coming away with temporary hearing loss...lol Fantastic!
Its great being a brummie, great days.
Number one this week 47 years ago.
And it doesn't even seem like 47 days.
I find Roy Wood's music to be extremely memorable
Love me some Roy Wood. Thanks for being my soundtrack hon 🙏🏼
Very Phil Spector. Great tune!
Classic Roy Wood, if you get a chance go and see his present gigs they are a blast
My daughter plays sax and she loves Wizzard
He's brilliant loved him in all of his groups and solo LEGEND
None better.
My fav group from the 70s,and my fav Wizzard song,BRILLIANT !!!!
Seen Roy wood live he’s amazing
great song
Love Roy Wood from the Move and ELO and obviously Wizard class and so tallented see my baby jive will always be my favourite, but love the Move songs
The amazingly talented Roy Wood! Great body of work !
Roy Wood is brilliant I was brought up with music, and that is from the move day love it❤❤❤
I have NEVER ONCE took this thing off mute and IT'S STILL AWESOME!!!!!!!
Roy Wood continuing on with Phil Spector's Wall of Sound. FAB
Have always loved his songs from The Move through to Wizard and ELO but never seen him live. That all changes tomorrow night in Glasgow. Sure to be brilliant.
Update: simply superb. Roy still has it. Great show and this was one of the highlights.
I saw him last December what a legend...rocked the building. Was lucky enough to meet him after the show and shake his hand and talk to him. I gave him a portrait I had drawn of himself as a Teddy boy as a promo for this song, he loved it. A complete gentleman and a lovely lovely person too!
Lovely eyes🥰
I remember him playing in a group called the lawmen in Brum,great group what a guitarist from Tony
best full volume!
you have the right idea
Alex crowson The ONLY way!......😎
Still doing it going to see him live October 2018. Totally underrated
The first live band I ever saw, Caird Hall, Dundee, I even guessed that "Ball Park Incident" would be the opening song.
we had a Joke shop including fancy dress, where they got their novelty costumes from. Happy memories for me, thank you.
I’m 67 and I would love to meet him
Great song... 🤫 😍
As much as I love Jeff Lynne, Roy Wood is the mad scientist in the lab late at night germinating bands like The Move, and Electric Light Orchestra. He’s the true musical genius
@Christopher Bingham Only for Roy Wood jeff would of been stil in idle race no hits joining the move was good move for him and beinging under don arden management the rest is history.
@@christopherbingham5092
Really? I somehow think that the sheer number of times 'I Wish It Could Be Christmas..' gets played every year owes nothing to ELO. And the there's 'See My Baby Jive' ... and then 'Blackberry Way' (both number one hits, along with Angel Fingers)..
love this song
21 hits between 1966 -1975 with the move ,wizzard and solo and wrote the amen corner hit hello suzie , not bad .
Spot on
Legend.....🎸
wall of sound influence fantastic
Roy Wood
❤
Hugh McDowell from ELO on cello - always my fave from that band - slightly more reserved than usual here!!!
R.i.p Hugh .