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Wood, Stuart "Woody"
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Biography
Scottish musician, a guitarist, pianist, bassist and mandolinist with the "Bay City Rollers," one of the biggest pop groups of the 1970s. They were teen idols in Great Britain and had a series of top ten hits, including "Summerlove Sensation," "Remember (Walking in the Sand," and "Bye Bye Baby." After an on-stage fight between Wood and lead singer Les McKeown in 1978, the band split up. Although he was soon touring with a new band, Wood responded to his former group’s break-up by drinking and using drugs heavily. His days and night were spent going from one seedy bar to another, downing whiskey and chain smoking.
At age 32, however, he decided he needed a clean start and made a conscious decision to change his life. He moved back to his homeland and adopted a healthier lifestyle that included a fitness program. Unable to run due to knee pain, he began walking briskly in the beautiful countryside around his home.
In 1998, he r
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Stuart “Woody” Wood and the Legacy of the Bay City Rollers
We recall the erotic terror and the erotic glee, the yellowing photos of sobbing girls clawing the air, the shuddering animal noises that shook a sagging old Empire; but let us also honor the thin, fish-belly pale grinning sinless milk-drinking sons of Eddie Cochran, Troggs and Hollies who caused it all, true rock ’n’ rollers at the beginning, end, and middle.
Amidst the brick-dust and smoke of the shattered mid-1970s, they made women out of children and created confusing shivers that yet had no name (but it wrote its bliss in crayon and lipstick). The supernova of sensation they caused may now seem like a dervish spell of badge-covered madness, but this must not obscure the honesty and purity of the feeling, nor the I/IV/V beauty at its root. I am not here to ask any of you to reconsider the Bay City Rollers. I am here to ask you to remember the Rollers, exactly as they were:
Remember the joy they gave you. Remember the flurry of strange feelings you had when you thought of them, and how you wrote their names in the
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Stuart 'Woody' Wood
b, *1957 GB, Edinburgh
Musician / Songwriter / Producer of Pop and Rock
A.k.a. Stuart John Wood Harry (14)
Stuart John "Woody" Wood (born February 25, 1957) is a Scottish musician, songwriter and producer best known as a guitarist for the 1970s pop band, the Bay City Rollers.After his success with The Rollers, Stuart moved to South Africa and performed in a band called The Passengers, which became a chart topping success throughout the 1980s.Upon returning home, Stuart has enjoyed becoming a celebrated and successful record producer in Scotland. His successes have included producing Virgin Records' "The Lone Piper" and "Scottish Moods" which were certified Platinum and Gold in sales.
Instruments
- Bass
- Backing Vocals
- Vocals
- Piano
- Guitar
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