pseudonym ‘L. Ransford’, also composed many of an unbroken series of smashes from 1963 to 1968. Yet it was a non-original, 1966’s ‘Look Through Any Window’, that broke The Hollies in the US. Though reliant more on outside writers after Nash left to form the Crosby, Stills & Nash ‘supergroup’, the run of hits continued up to 1974’s ‘The ...
Folk, Joan Baez, who invited him onstage during her concerts and recorded several of his songs, prefiguring numerous other successful pop-oriented covers by the likes of The Hollies, Herman’s Hermits, Judy Collins, Sonny and Cher, Manfred Mann, The Turtles and, most famously, The Byrds, during the next few years. In ...
(Vocal/instrumental group, 1968–70) When on a US tour with The Hollies, Graham Nash (vocals, guitar) had sown the seeds of a ‘supergroup’ with ex-Byrd Dave Crosby (vocals, guitar) and Stephen Stills (vocals, guitar) from Buffalo Springfield. The new combine rehearsed in London for an eponymous album that featured hippy lyricism, flawless vocal harmonies and neo-acoustic ...
1973, although all three now run HDH Records, and continue to write, produce and record as individuals. Styles & Forms | Sixties | Rock Personalities | The Hollies | Sixties | Rock ...
conscious ‘For What It’s Worth’ (1967). But the Springfield dissolved after two years. A jam session at the home of Joni Mitchell united Stills and former Byrd David Crosby with Hollies singer Graham Nash. As Crosby, Stills & Nash, the trio made a landmark appearance at Woodstock in 1969, and their eponymous debut album from the same year ...
groups, they still had hits in the UK (‘The Price Of Love’ and ‘Love Is Strange’, both 1965) and recorded an album, Two Yanks In England with The Hollies, whose sound had essentially been shaped by the brothers. Another album, Roots (1968) was a trailblazing country rock collection, but at that time nothing of theirs would ...
word for ‘lads’). Led by the singer-songwriter prodigy Lee Mavers, The La’s purveyed a deceptively simple guitar pop in the vein of The Beatles, The Who and The Hollies, but somehow made entirely fresh by Mavers’s poetic flights and choirboy-thug vocals, typified by their beautiful hit ‘There She Goes’. Sadly, the eccentric Mavers, after complaining ...
it had on a generation of teenagers who would be at the vanguard of the British – and subsequently international – rock scene of the 1960s: The Who, The Hollies, The Kinks, The Moody Blues, The Searchers, Procol Harum…. These and many more all had band members who cut their musical teeth on a skiffle-inspired acoustic ...
down the chart. However, others were following fast behind them, and not only many of their aforementioned Liverpudlian compatriots. There was also The Animals from Newcastle, The Hollies from Manchester and The Dave Clark Five from Tottenham, North London. The DC5 had visited the US a month before The Beatles, having ended the six-week reign of ...
Everly Brothers had the writing team of Felice and Boudleaux Bryant to lean on. Don and Phil’s charming harmonies were crucial in shaping the 1960s sounds of The Beatles and Hollies, to name just two of many groups. A series of attractive US male singers emerged to service the new audience, such as Paul Anka, Ricky Nelson and ...
by the ensuing beat boom. Every youngster wanted to play the guitar, it seemed, and a crop of regional heroes soon emerged. Manchester provided the likes of The Hollies, Herman’s Hermits and Freddie and The Dreamers, Newcastle’s contribution was the tougher sound of The Animals, whilst Birmingham’s wake-up call brought out such bands as The Move ...
than an album proper, it helped keep US fans eager for their next fully original LP release. March/April European And US Tours A two-week March package tour with The Hollies in Britain saw the violent female fan reaction step up a notch when one girl was launched over the balcony in Manchester, landing on more girls below and losing ...
January Grammy For Best Rock Album ‘Is this old hat now ?’ an interviewer from TV Guide asked the band after 21st Century Breakdown won a Grammy for Best Rock Album, ‘No, no, this is never old hat,’ replied Billie Joe, ‘when you put that much effort into a record nothing is old hat.’ At ...
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