John Lennon loves Roy Wood, talks The Move & ELO

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  • Опубликовано: 22 дек 2024

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  • @TheGarageJump
    @TheGarageJump Год назад +18

    Never heard this before - excellent. You can see the respect John Lennon has for Roy and Jeff. Thanks for posting.

  • @eslermanu47
    @eslermanu47 Год назад +30

    Roy Wood is a genius

  • @ElvarMasson
    @ElvarMasson 2 года назад +29

    One of my favourite musicians talking about two of my favourite musicians; Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood 😉

  • @quaid667
    @quaid667 Год назад +24

    Who's the guy in ELO??? The guy who later produced Free As A Bird and Real Love lol

  • @roberthockett270
    @roberthockett270 2 года назад +11

    John is so wonderfully humble here too.

  • @bluedeskfan2754
    @bluedeskfan2754 2 года назад +9

    Nice to know the appreciation went both ways

  • @user-ebombobo
    @user-ebombobo 2 года назад +27

    I believe it's a loss to the rock music history that Roy has stopped recording in the studio.
    Of course he can do what he wants, but then again, he's a songwriting genius.

  • @johngraham5996
    @johngraham5996 2 года назад +9

    i'm a Queen fanatic of 46 years but you can't help but love roy, apart from being a great musician and composer he's a really likeable guy, he writes great songs and his films always have something crazy going on in them

  • @StephenMay-hn3fn
    @StephenMay-hn3fn 9 месяцев назад +4

    Just shows how lennon had good taste rip john you were brilliant

  • @liborsionko
    @liborsionko 3 года назад +6

    He just HAD top love Roy Wood. Macca too. Beatlesesque construction, melody. harmony and quirk

  • @johnnyhartley4330
    @johnnyhartley4330 11 месяцев назад +4

    It is interesting to hear John Lennon saying that the ELO song Showdown is like a mix of I heard it through the grapevine, and Lightning Strikes, as I've listened to that ELO song, and he is right!

    • @mjsmcd
      @mjsmcd 8 месяцев назад

      Lightening strikes by who?

    • @johnnyhartley4330
      @johnnyhartley4330 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@mjsmcd Lou Christie sang Lightning Strikes.

    • @mjsmcd
      @mjsmcd 8 месяцев назад

      Thanx
      Johnny

    •  7 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah. The "Grapevine" part I always thought (or at least Motown in general), but the Christie song never occurred to me until I heard Lennon mention it. Good catch by John!

  • @joelcr2383
    @joelcr2383 10 месяцев назад +2

    "There's 2 songs that have been picked up from in there, but I won't mention any names because somebody might hear this and sue them"
    Caretaker for art, not a gatekeeper. Aware of the past and undaunted by the future. Top dude.

  • @brianm840
    @brianm840 Год назад +8

    I wish Roy Wood would have stayed in ELO longer. I liked his influence. I think he would have helped Jeff keep his own ideas fresher too.

    • @Steven-d6b7x
      @Steven-d6b7x 8 месяцев назад +4

      Don Arden squeezed Roy out of ELO, check it out.

    • @brianm840
      @brianm840 7 месяцев назад

      @@Steven-d6b7x guess he thought Roy's songs were too experimental? But that's what made early ELO great. Roy's experimental ideas and Jeff smoothing it out to be more commercial. They were a good team I thought despite their clashing. A shame they couldn't make it work.

    • @andshits
      @andshits 3 месяца назад

      ​@@brianm840 Roy Wood influence on the first single 10538 overture made it.

    • @robertandrew5768
      @robertandrew5768 Месяц назад

      ​@@Steven-d6b7xLike he squeezed The Small Faces out of money.

  • @syncout
    @syncout 11 дней назад

    great stuff

  • @davidmacgregor5193
    @davidmacgregor5193 2 года назад +15

    John was a little confused about The Move, they didn't split up in the 1960's, Ace Kefford left in 1968 for a solo career and he later formed The Ace Kefford Stand featuring Ace, Dave Ball, Denny Ball and Cozy Powell. In 1976, Ace formed a band called "Rockstar", they released one unsuccessful single called "Mummy" and they disbanded after a few months.
    Trevor Burton left The Move in 1969, he was a replaced on bass by Rick Price. Trevor was member of the short lived Birmingham supergroup "Balls" in 1970, he later played bass for The Steve Gibbons Band. Rick Price wasn't interested in Wood and Lynne's ELO project, he left The Move in late 1970 for a solo career, Rick was in Birmingham band "Mongrel" from 1971 until 1972 when Roy Wood hired Rick, Keith Smart and Charlie Grima from Mongrel to be members of his post ELO project Wizzard.
    Carl Wayne left The Move in January 1970 for a solo career, he was re[placed the following month by Jeff Lynne who'd left The Idle Race. The Move carried on as a trio of Wood, Bevan and Lynne until the release of California Man in April 1972. The debut ELO album "The Electric Light Orchestra" (Harvest SHVL 797) was released in December 1971.

  • @avanti6058
    @avanti6058 4 месяца назад

    He had a sensor to capture good music. I don't know all of Roy Wood's discography but I've been following him for a few years and he seems to me a highly underrated musician. He can play several instruments as if he were a real instrumentalist, not like, he plays a little bit of this and a little bit of that, I mean with a lot of attitude and personality. And he still sings very well today. A real artist.

  • @andymassingham
    @andymassingham 10 дней назад

    Just read somewhere that the Jerry Lee Lewis-style piano on Brontosaurus was played by Nicky Hopkins (uncredited). I always thought it sounded like him. Echoes of his playing The OX on the first Who LP. Anybody care to pick this up?

  • @cesarmadero05
    @cesarmadero05 Год назад +4

    Jeff Lynne and John Lennon share the same initials.
    It's bizarre seeing Lennon saying his name, because he will produce two of his songs with The Beatles, 20 years later.

  • @Mongo_Only_Pawn
    @Mongo_Only_Pawn 11 месяцев назад

    Ive been an ELO fan since about
    1979-80 when "Dont bring me down" was popular. My junior high class would always throw parties at the local skating rink and that song, along with Devo "Whip it" and Queen "Another one bites the dust" really brought everybody out into the rink.

  • @kimberblackkimberblack7310
    @kimberblackkimberblack7310 3 года назад +4

    1:47 sweet tone. Gotta have good tone for a decent lead. And go slow

  • @tonys9102
    @tonys9102 10 месяцев назад

    The tiny snippet of the song you hear at the very start of this video is Ron Holden's "Love You So," a Top 5 U.S. hit in 1960 that fell into obscurity since Holden never had another hit. But it's a great record. It's built on a bundle of cliches, but somehow transcends them. I wonder if Lennon had requested it to be played. Rock writer Dave Marsh raves about this song in his book "Louie, Louie."

  • @markjamesmeli2520
    @markjamesmeli2520 Год назад

    Is this Larry King John is talking to?

  • @steveoshow4832
    @steveoshow4832 9 месяцев назад

    If you listen carefully to Showdown from ELO you can feel Cold Turkey throughout and imagine John singing with ‘Temperatures Rising’ after ‘there’s gonna be a showdown’…
    Jeff Lynne would have been a perfect fit for replacing John in a 70s Beatles line up in an alternative
    rock universe😎👌 nice to hear clips like this with John speaking highly of other fellow talented Brits.

  • @chrisnewman7281
    @chrisnewman7281 5 месяцев назад

    The Holly‘s but better who would’ve thought that the Hollies would be a benchmark for mediocrity

  • @DrZootie
    @DrZootie Год назад +2

    "Hollies but better." Bwa-ha-ha-ha!

    •  7 месяцев назад +3

      He's spot-on.

    • @lesgeorge9166
      @lesgeorge9166 7 месяцев назад

      No way

    •  7 месяцев назад +1

      @@lesgeorge9166 Actually, way. And decidedly so.

    • @JoeSmith-eo7rc
      @JoeSmith-eo7rc 6 месяцев назад

      The Hollie’s sucked the move were way better

  • @gabriellefagan1014
    @gabriellefagan1014 2 года назад +2

    Lighting strikes again

    • @N0Camping4U
      @N0Camping4U 2 года назад +2

      Lighting or lightning?

  • @lesgeorge9166
    @lesgeorge9166 7 месяцев назад

    Sorry john better than the hollies 🙄

    • @JoeSmith-eo7rc
      @JoeSmith-eo7rc 3 дня назад

      The Hollie’s were lame the move were way better

  • @carlt9265
    @carlt9265 Год назад +1

    Ok as the move….abit more than that and not better than the hollies….john talked some utter crap at times

    •  7 месяцев назад +4

      Actually, John is spot-on in that assessment.

    • @JoeSmith-eo7rc
      @JoeSmith-eo7rc 6 месяцев назад +2

      The move were way better than the Hollies it’s not even close

    • @avanti6058
      @avanti6058 4 месяца назад

      Here another one who likes The Move more than The Hollies😉

  • @JC57515
    @JC57515 3 года назад +1

    I am the walrus was utter crap, as was Revolution 9. I should have demanded a refund.

    • @TheReaperMan275
      @TheReaperMan275 3 года назад +6

      It's all a matter of preference. I myself love "I Am The Walrus", but "Revolution 9" is too out there for me.

    • @phillipbonner9944
      @phillipbonner9944 2 года назад +9

      Lol its obvious you don't like great music

    • @JC57515
      @JC57515 2 года назад +1

      @@phillipbonner9944 hahaha history shall judge!

    • @thevoid5732
      @thevoid5732 2 года назад +10

      @@JC57515 history has, stay mad

    •  7 месяцев назад +1

      @@thevoid5732 is "the void" that empty space twixt your ears?