Wood 'N' Wizzard Article: 1973

Roy Wood races to finish the new Wizzard album – Christmas deadline looms!

Wood 'N' Wizzard, a two-page article in Disc, December 8, 1973.

Quote from Roy:

“This new album has got to be finished by Christmas, so once again we’ve had to rush it, but in spite of this, it’s looking as though it’s going to be a nice one. Naturally we’ve had problems like me not getting the time to write suitable songs for it, so we just had to get into a studio and work out the music. That’s done now, so now I’m hoping to go home to Birmingham this weekend and write a few songs.”

NEW ALBUM

"This new album has got to be finished by Christmas, so once again we've had to rush it, but in spite of this, it's looking as though it's going to be a nice one. Naturally we've had problems like me not getting the time to write suitable songs for it, so we just had to get into a studio and work out the music. That's done now, so now I'm hoping to go home to Birmingham this weekend and write a few songs," said Roy.

The new album, which will be re-leased in the New Year, is to be called "Eddy And The Falcons"-the Falcons being the first group Woody was in. "The idea of this album is to re-create some of the sounds of the old rock and roll stars -people like Paul Anka, Rick Nel-son, Del Shannon and Carl Perkins. You gotta be careful doing an album like this otherwise it can end up sounding pretty sick.

"The nice thing about this album is that all the tracks are quite short, so we'll be able to reshape the stage act to incorporate the album mater-ial," said Roy.

As soon as the album is completed, Wizzard will rehearse a new stage show, which they'll put to test on a few gigs in Britain. Once things are running smoothly, the group's much