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Roy Wood is a Alternative rock act. Their sound grew out of Spike Edney, Lovely Rita, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cliff Richard and Phil Spector. Those roots explain a lot about how Roy Wood arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Idle Race, Mud, Dave Edmunds, Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel and The Rubettes, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Cheap Trick, The Move, Electric Light Orchestra, The Moody Blues and Ian Paice, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 32 connections around Roy Wood, reaching back through Spike Edney and forward to Cheap Trick. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Roy Wood connections
Roy Wood grew out of Spike Edney, Lovely Rita, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Cliff Richard, shares an orbit with The Idle Race, Mud, Dave Edmunds and Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, went on to shape Cheap Trick, The Move, Electric Light Orchestra and The Moody Blues. 32 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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