A concise Record Mirror update revealing the title and release plans for Wizzard’s first LP, alongside a packed run of university and theatre dates across the UK.

Roy Wood's Sound of '73 Preview Published in the UK on January 1, 1973, Music Scene’s article “Wizzard of Wood” profiled Roy Wood as a potential front-runner of the British music scene in the coming year. The piece described Wood as the ever-ambitious founder member of The Move, the Electric Light Orchestra, and now Wizzard. It noted that he would have two albums out early in the new year, tour America with his new band for the first two months of 1973, undertake a 45-minute

Roy Wood's Painted Chaos Banjo Romp Released as a 7-inch vinyl single in the UK on January 28, 1972, on Harvest (catalogue: HAR 5048), Roy Wood’s “When Gran'ma Plays The Banjo” — backed with “Wake Up” — was the lead single from his forthcoming debut solo album Boulders. Written and produced by Roy Wood, this whimsical, multi-layered glam-folk gem showcased Wood’s eccentric genius and his departure from The Move/Electric Light Orchestra into full solo territory. The single did

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.