Roy Wood's face-painted orchestra-cellos in tinsel, horns in harmony, See My Baby Jive like Phil Spector snorted glitter. They built walls of sound taller than Slade's platforms. More beardy brass blasts weekly.
A heavy, swaggering reinvention, “Brontosaurus” marked Roy Wood’s emergence as a theatrical frontman and set the stage for the wild, technicolour decade that followed.
A Psychedelic Pop No. 1 Masterpiece Released as a 7-inch vinyl single in the UK on November 28, 1968, on Regal Zonophone (catalogue: RZ 3015), The Move’s “Blackberry Way” was Roy Wood’s psychedelic pop triumph. Backed with “Something” (written by Dave Morgan), this Jimmy Miller-produced A-side — with Denny Cordell & Tony Visconti on B — stormed to No. 1 on the Official Singles Chart for 1 week (11 February 1969), staying in the Top 75 for 12 weeks. Pressed with solid centre,
