Who had hit records with The Move, ELO and Wizzard?
Wizzard Brew Wizzard Brew Wizzard Brew is the debut album by glam rock group Wizzard, released in 1973. It reached a peak of No. 29 in the UK Albums Chart. In the United States, it was released by United Artists Records as "Wizzard's Brew" (with a different cover photo) but failed to chart there. In 2003, "Mojo" magazine ranked it number 18 on its list of the "Top 50 Eccentric Albums". In approach, the album was much more experimental than the group's hit singles, with elements of hard rock (an approach Roy Wood's previous band The Move had explored on their 1970
The Move Ya", recorded after Wood's departure, was a significant US hit in 1977. With the release of the album "The Electric Light Orchestra", the Move completed its metamorphosis into ELO within weeks of the last single being released, and they actually appeared on television promoting both the Move's last single and ELO's debut single (the long-delayed "10538 Overture") at the same time. Wood and Hunt quit ELO during the early recording sessions of ELO's second album, "ELO 2", which was the band's final album under its Harvest Records contract, and Wood going on to front the glam rock band Wizzard, as