Roy Wood is a genius

John Lennon knows talent when he sees and heards it spot on.

I believe it's a loss to the rock music history that Roy has stopped recording in the studio. Of course he can do what he wants, but then again, he's a songwriting genius.

Never heard this before - excellent. You can see the respect John Lennon has for Roy and Jeff. Thanks for posting.

One of my favourite musicians talking about two of my favourite musicians; Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood 😉

He had a sensor to capture good music. I don't know all of Roy Wood's discography but I've been following him for a few years and he seems to me a highly underrated musician. He can play several instruments as if he were a real instrumentalist, not like, he plays a little bit of this and a little bit of that, I mean with a lot of attitude and personality. And he still sings very well today. A real artist.

John is so wonderfully humble here too.

Nice to know the appreciation went both ways

i'm a Queen fanatic of 46 years but you can't help but love roy, apart from being a great musician and composer he's a really likeable guy, he writes great songs and his films always have something crazy going on in them

Who's the guy in ELO??? The guy who later produced Free As A Bird and Real Love lol

Just shows how lennon had good taste rip john you were brilliant

"There's 2 songs that have been picked up from in there, but I won't mention any names because somebody might hear this and sue them" Caretaker for art, not a gatekeeper. Aware of the past and undaunted by the future. Top dude.

I wish Roy Wood would have stayed in ELO longer. I liked his influence. I think he would have helped Jeff keep his own ideas fresher too.

He just HAD top love Roy Wood. Macca too. Beatlesesque construction, melody. harmony and quirk

John was a little confused about The Move, they didn't split up in the 1960's, Ace Kefford left in 1968 for a solo career and he later formed The Ace Kefford Stand featuring Ace, Dave Ball, Denny Ball and Cozy Powell. In 1976, Ace formed a band called "Rockstar", they released one unsuccessful single called "Mummy" and they disbanded after a few months. Trevor Burton left The Move in 1969, he was a replaced on bass by Rick Price. Trevor was member of the short lived Birmingham supergroup "Balls" in 1970, he later played bass for The Steve Gibbons Band. Rick Price wasn't interested in Wood and Lynne's ELO project, he left The Move in late 1970 for a solo career, Rick was in Birmingham band "Mongrel" from 1971 until 1972 when Roy Wood hired Rick, Keith Smart and Charlie Grima from Mongrel to be members of his post ELO project Wizzard. Carl Wayne left The Move in January 1970 for a solo career, he was re[placed the following month by Jeff Lynne who'd left The Idle Race. The Move carried on as a trio of Wood, Bevan and Lynne until the release of California Man in April 1972. The debut ELO album "The Electric Light Orchestra" (Harvest SHVL 797) was released in December 1971.

It is interesting to hear John Lennon saying that the ELO song Showdown is like a mix of I heard it through the grapevine, and Lightning Strikes, as I've listened to that ELO song, and he is right!

Jeff Lynne and John Lennon share the same initials. It's bizarre seeing Lennon saying his name, because he will produce two of his songs with The Beatles, 20 years later.

Ive been an ELO fan since about 1979-80 when "Dont bring me down" was popular. My junior high class would always throw parties at the local skating rink and that song, along with Devo "Whip it" and Queen "Another one bites the dust" really brought everybody out into the rink.

1:47 sweet tone. Gotta have good tone for a decent lead. And go slow

The Holly‘s but better who would’ve thought that the Hollies would be a benchmark for mediocrity

The tiny snippet of the song you hear at the very start of this video is Ron Holden's "Love You So," a Top 5 U.S. hit in 1960 that fell into obscurity since Holden never had another hit. But it's a great record. It's built on a bundle of cliches, but somehow transcends them. I wonder if Lennon had requested it to be played. Rock writer Dave Marsh raves about this song in his book "Louie, Louie."

If you listen carefully to Showdown from ELO you can feel Cold Turkey throughout and imagine John singing with ‘Temperatures Rising’ after ‘there’s gonna be a showdown’… Jeff Lynne would have been a perfect fit for replacing John in a 70s Beatles line up in an alternative rock universe😎👌 nice to hear clips like this with John speaking highly of other fellow talented Brits.

Lighting strikes again

Is this Larry King John is talking to?

"Hollies but better." Bwa-ha-ha-ha!

Sorry john better than the hollies 🙄

Ok as the move….abit more than that and not better than the hollies….john talked some utter crap at times

I am the walrus was utter crap, as was Revolution 9. I should have demanded a refund.