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Wizzard was a Birmingham band formed by Roy Wood, former member and founders of bands The Move and Electric Light Orchestra. Not long after the release of Electric Light Orchestra's first album, Wood decided he wanted to head off in a different musical direction and left, taking band members Bill Hunt and Hugh McDowell with him, to found Wizzard.

The band produced two albums before Roy Wood dissolved it. Wizzard however returned with a third album in 2000.

The band's 1973 Christmas single "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day" has become something of an annual fixture on British radio and television (along with Slade's "Merry Christmas Everybody").

Albums - Wizzard Brew ( 1973 - co-engineered by Alan Parsons), Eddy & The Falcons ( 1974), Main Street ( 2002).

Singles - "Ball Park Incident" ( 1972; #6 UK), "See My Baby Jive" ( 1973; #1 UK), "Angel Fingers" (1973; #1 UK), "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day" (1973; #4 UK), "This Is The Story Of My Love (Baby)" ( 1974; #34 UK), "Are You Ready to Rock" (1974; #8 UK); "Rattlesnake Roll" ( 1975), "Indiana Rainbow" ( 1976), "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day" (re-issue) ( 1984; #23 UK)


Wizzard is also emblazened on the brim of the hat of Rincewind, a failed wizard in Terry PratchettTerence David John Pratchett OBE (known to some fans as Pterry is an English fantasy author (born April 28, 1948, in Beaconsfield, Bucks), best known for his Discworld series. Biography Pratchett's first published work was the short story "The Hades Busin's DiscworldThe Discworld is the creation of Terry Pratchett. It is an imaginary location that appears in most of his books. One of Pratchett's earlier novels, Strata also features a disc-shaped world, but a different one. The Discworld It consists of (as the name su series of books.

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