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This was last Sunday but I only just saw it (on The Move Mailing List Digest). A fine reminder of what Christmas is all about. What a chap.

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Didn't recognise the name, but he sounds a really decent down to earth bloke. chuckle. glam rock....

I loathed him.... I loathed his stupid band 'Wizard' and I still loathe that revolting ditty to this day. Glam rock ? Never...more an explosion In a paint factory....

Now If anything should be In the halls of fame, It's this:



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Clodhopper;1379168 wrote: Didn't recognise the name, but he sounds a really decent down to earth bloke. chuckle. glam rock....Might not know the name Roy Wood but sure enough you will recognise his music.

He is a legend of British pop music, a bit of an eccentric one off, founder member of ELO, The Electric Light Orchestra.

I saw him play perhaps five years ago at a festival with his big band and he's still got it. A great man, Roy Wood.

It's risen to 28 in the UK singles charts. A nice little earner, that. Slade's at 33, Band Aid at 34 and the Pogues at 15. You'd think we'd know better by now.

spot;1379456 wrote: It's risen to 28 in the UK singles charts. A nice little earner, that. Slade's at 33, Band Aid at 34 and the Pogues at 15. You'd think we'd know better by now.


The Pogues Is the one I linked and always does well this time of the year...

Forget Roy Wood.... Hugh Cornwell and The Stranglers must be rubbing their hands In glee at the amount of royalties they are getting from this...

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oscar;1379472 wrote: Forget Roy Wood....I would, were it not that he's the topic of this thread. Unlike punk. My punk credentials are quite adequate thank you, it's just that The Stranglers isn't, for once, the topic of conversation.

spot;1379473 wrote: I would, were it not that he's the topic of this thread. Unlike punk. My punk credentials are quite adequate thank you, it's just that The Stranglers isn't, for once, the topic of conversation.


Just for the record... The Stranglers were never and have never been punk..... unlike Roy Wood

oscar;1379474 wrote: Just for the record... The Stranglers were never and have never been punk..... unlike Roy Wood


Don't tell I, tell Ee. I have remarkably little interest in the matter. Perhaps you'd care to correct their Wikipedia article, the first sentence of which concludes "the Stranglers are the longest-surviving and most "continuously successful" band to have originated in the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s". But please, whatever you do, don't do it here.

spot;1379478 wrote: Don't tell I, tell Ee. I have remarkably little interest in the matter. Perhaps you'd care to correct their Wikipedia article, the first sentence of which concludes "the Stranglers are the longest-surviving and most "continuously successful" band to have originated in the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s". But please, whatever you do, don't do it here.


I pay no actual factual reference to Wikki.... I'd rather go by what the actual members of The Stranglers have said over the years.

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However, Glam rock was the pre-curser to punk rock. There are plenty of sites on the web If you care to research that.

oscar;1379485 wrote: Glam rock was the pre-curser to punk rockPrecursor in the sense that it pre-dated punk, yes. Precursor in the sense that it informed or influenced it, I'm eyes agog trying to work out what Punk would have looked like if you were right. Startlingly different would be my first guess. Influence, no. Reaction against, yes.