Creativity Quote by Roy Wood

Roy Wood isn’t just complimenting an old track; he’s staking a claim for its durability in a pop world that treats most songs like seasonal clothing. Calling "Blackberry Way" something that "could be sung in any era" is a musician’s way of arguing that the tune has escaped its original packaging - late-60s British psych-pop, studio ingenuity, the Move’s maximalist melodrama - and graduated into something closer to repertoire.

The telling phrase is "with the new doing all sort of fanfare things in it". Wood frames reinvention not as betrayal but as proof of strength. If you can throw brass, bombast, or modern stage polish at a song and it still holds, then the core is solid: melody that doesn’t crumble, chord changes that keep their emotional logic, a hook that survives costume changes. He’s also gently marketing the live show. "Fanfare things" suggests spectacle, but the subtext is craft: arrangement as a stress test.

"It goes down great with audiences" sounds casual, almost pub-level practical, and that’s the point. Wood’s authority here isn’t academic canon-building; it’s road evidence. The crowd response becomes the final court of appeal, a populist measure of timelessness. In an era when legacy acts can feel like museum exhibits, Wood’s line insists on something more alive: nostalgia as a launchpad, not a cage, and a reminder that a truly well-built pop song doesn’t ask permission from its decade.