"the No.3 position on the UK chart while the US version, ""Words And Music by Bob Dylan"", was ignored. Nash's departure saw The Hollies again turn to outside writers for their single A-sides, but the group's British chart fortunes rallied during 1969 and 1970, and they scored four consecutive UK Top 20 hits (including two consecutive Top 5 placings) in this period, beginning with the Geoff Stephens/Tony Macaulay song, ""Sorry Suzanne"" (Feb. 1969), which reached No.3 in the UK. The follow-up was the emotional ballad ""He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"" written by Bobby Scott and Bob Russell, which featured"
"Hollies Sing Hollies Hollies Sing Hollies is the ninth studio album released in the UK by The Hollies. It was released in November 1969 by Parlophone, their second album that year coming 6 months after an entire album of Bob Dylan covers. It was their first album of original compositions since the departure of Graham Nash and the second album by The Hollies to feature Terry Sylvester, on rhythm guitar and first to feature Terry Sylvester compositions as well as an instrumental composition by bassist Bernie Calvert. The U.S. version, titled ""He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"", included the hit"
"The Hollies' first 1966 single, and their last with original bassist Eric Haydock. It peaked at number two in the UK and number 42 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in the US. It is ranked as the 37th biggest British hit of 1966. The Hollies' version was praised by Paul McCartney, who thought Graham Nash's soaring tenor in the chorus was a trumpet. After ""I Can't Let Go"" was recorded Haydock was replaced by Bernie Calvert, who played on the band's next single (""Bus Stop""). Linda Ronstadt released the most successful American version in 1980 from her platinum-certified album, ""Mad"
"Carousel"", and ""Carrie Anne""). The move to Epic followed by Graham Nash's departure ended this streak; after that, the Hollies had a few more huge hits: ""He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"" (No.7, 1969), ""Long Cool Woman"" (No.2, 1972), and ""The Air That I Breathe"" (No.6, 1974). They did have additional US chart hits with the non-UK singles ""Pay You Back With Interest"" (No.28 in 1966), ""Dear Eloise"" (No.50 in 1967), ""Long Dark Road"" (No.26 in 1972), and the ""reunion"" single ""Stop! In the Name of Love"" (No.29 in 1983). In 2010, the Hollies were included in the Rock and"
"Hollies (1965 album) Hollies is the Hollies' third LP for Parlophone. This is also referred to as ""Hollies '65"" to differentiate it from the similarly titled 1974 album. It went to No. 8 in the UK album charts. Originally available in mono only, it was reissued in stereo under the title ""Reflection"" in 1969. In 1997, British EMI put both mono and stereo versions of this album onto a single CD. Of the twelve tracks on this album, only ""So Lonely"" was issued on 45 in Great Britain; even then, it was the B-side to the 1965 hit ""Look Through"
"US). The Hollies replaced Nash with Terry Sylvester and ""Hollies Sing Dylan"" (1969) was No. 3 in the UK album charts, although it failed to chart in the US. This was one of the first ""tribute albums"" devoted to a single artist by a vocal group. After Nash's December 1968 departure from the group Hicks began to write more solo songs, which were used as either B-sides or album tracks (such as ""Cos You Like To Love Me"" and ""Don't Give Up Easily"" in 1969 and ""Dandelion Wine"" in 1970). He wrote much of The Hollies' 1970 album ""'Confessions of"
"Hill"" (verse D, chorus Dm) and ""Penny Lane"" (verse [bars 1–3] B, verse [bars 4–8] Bm). Personnel per Guitar World Paul McCartney performed the song live for the first time by any Beatle on his 1993 New World Tour. He later reprised the song on his 2005 US Tour. Fixing a Hole ""Fixing a Hole"" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released on their 1967 album ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"". It was written by Paul McCartney, although credited to Lennon–McCartney. In a 1968 interview, McCartney said that the song was ""about the"
"Stop Stop Stop ""Stop Stop Stop"" is a song by British pop group The Hollies that was written by group members Allan Clarke, Tony Hicks, and Graham Nash, and was a rewrite of an earlier song by the group. It was first released as a single and later appeared on the album ""For Certain Because"" in the United Kingdom. The song was released as a single by the Parlophone label in October 1966 and was released around the same time in the United States by Imperial Records. It was the last single that The Hollies released that year (see 1966"
"""I'm a Moody Guy"", which reached 19 on the UK singles chart. The next three singles failed to chart, ""Cindy's Birthday"" was then a minor hit, before the following three singles also flopped, and the band broke up in April 1963. Elliott also played in Ricky Shaw and the Dolphins, a Manchester band led by guitarist Tony Hicks who left to join The Hollies in April 1963. Shortly after, the Hollies drummer Don Rathbone left and Elliott also joined the Hollies, whilst Jewry and Sanderson became the band's joint managers. As of 2013 Elliott still plays with the Hollies, and"
"banner, notably: ""Lullaby To Tim"" (dedicated to his son, though sung by Nash), ""Heading for a Fall"", ""Water on the Brain"", and ""Would You Believe?"". Besides the full composing team, Clarke also wrote songs with Nash such as ""Try It"", ""Wishyouawish"" (1967), ""Tomorrow When it Comes"", ""Jennifer Eccles"" and ""Wings"" (1968). Clarke assumed more of a figurehead profile as front man of the Hollies following Graham Nash's departure from the group in December 1968. Clarke was the sole lead singer on ""Hollies Sing Dylan"" (a UK No. 3 album in early 1969). Clarke's own songs such as: ""My Life Is"
"(""Tell Me to My Face"") and fuzz guitar (""Have You Ever Loved Somebody""). When no original material was available, Hicks discovered demos of Hollies hits ""Just One Look"" (UK No. 2 in 1964), ""I Can't Let Go"" (UK No. 2 in 1966) and ""He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"" (UK No. 3 in 1969) (which became one of their biggest hits). Hicks suggested the band do an album of Bob Dylan songs in late 1968; Nash disagreed, one of the reasons for his exit from the band (although he had already sung with David Crosby and Stephen Stills in the"
"The Rolling Stones had a hit version of the song in 1964. Richards later said, ""[Holly] passed it on via the Beatles and via [the Rolling Stones] ... He's in everybody"". Don McLean's popular 1971 ballad ""American Pie"" was inspired by Holly's death and the day of the plane crash. The song's lyric, which calls the incident ""The Day the Music Died"", became popularly associated with the crash. McLean's album ""American Pie"" is dedicated to Holly. In 2015, McLean wrote, ""Buddy Holly would have the same stature musically whether he would have lived or died, because of his accomplishments ..."
"Allan Clarke (singer) Harold Allan Clarke (5 April 1942, Salford, Lancashire, England) is a retired English pop rock singer, who was one of the founding members and the original lead singer of The Hollies. He retired from performing in 1999, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. Harold Allan Clarke and his childhood friend, Graham Nash, began singing together in Manchester while still at school. They formed The Hollies in December 1962 with Vic Steele (lead guitar) and Eric Haydock (bass guitar). In April 1963, they added Tony Hicks (replacing Steele on lead guitar)"
"Bus Stop (album) Bus Stop is the fourth U.S. album by the British pop band the Hollies, released on Imperial Records in mono (LP-9330) and rechanneled stereo (LP-12330) in October 1966. It features songs ranging from both sides of the band's then-current hit single to material recorded in the Hollies' early days on the UK's Parlophone Records in 1963, 1964 and 1965. The song ""Oriental Sadness"" had previously been issued in the U.S. on the Hollies' album ""Beat Group!"" earlier in 1966. This was the Hollies' last album to feature original bassist Eric Haydock, who left the group early in"
"track, ""Tell Me to My Face"", was a moderate hit by Mercury artist Keith, and would also be covered a decade later by Dan Fogelberg and Tim Weisberg on their ""Twin Sons of Different Mothers"" album. Meanwhile, the Hollies continued to release a steady stream of international hit singles: ""Stop Stop Stop"" (Oct. 1966, UK No.2, US No.7) from ""For Certain Because"", known for its distinctive banjo arrangement; ""On a Carousel"" (Feb. 1967; UK No.4, 1967, US No.11, Australia No.14)); ""Carrie Anne"" (May 1967, UK No.3, US No.9, Australia No.7). In mid-February 1967, Bobby Elliott collapsed on stage due to"
"Hole in the World ""Hole in the World"" is a song by the Eagles, written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey, in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks, released in 2003. This is the first Eagles recording without guitarist Don Felder since 1974, and it was released as a DVD single with some bonus tracks: the ""Hole in the World"" Stereo Mix & 5.1 Multichannel track, the video, outtakes from the video and a trailer for the DVD ""Farewell 1 Tour-Live from Melbourne"". ""Hole in the World"" appears on the 2003 compilation album ""The Very Best Of"", as well"
"Dear Eloise / King Midas in Reverse Dear Eloise / King Midas in Reverse is the seventh U.S. studio album by the British pop band the Hollies, released in November 1967. ""King Midas in Reverse"" and ""Leave Me"" (saved from the UK ""Evolution"" track line-up) were slotted onto the album while deleting ""Pegasus"", ""Try It"", and ""Elevated Observations"" from the UK ""Butterfly"" track listing. It was the Hollies' last album to feature Graham Nash until 1983's ""What Goes Around"", as well as the last to feature songs written solely by members Allan Clarke, Graham Nash, and Tony Hicks. As noted"
"Fixing a Hole ""Fixing a Hole"" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released on their 1967 album ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"". It was written by Paul McCartney, although credited to Lennon–McCartney. In a 1968 interview, McCartney said that the song was ""about the hole in the road where the rain gets in, a good old analogy—the hole in your make-up which lets the rain in and stops your mind from going where it will."" He went on to say that the following lines were about fans who hung around outside his home"
"The Hollies (EP) The Hollies is the first EP by The Hollies. It was put out by Parlophone in mono with the catalogue number GEP 8909 and released in the UK in early June 1964. The EP entered the British charts on 6 June 1964 and spent 8 weeks there, peaking at #8 on the ""Record Retailer"" chart. Band originals ""What Kind of Love"" and ""When I'm Not There"" were not previously released on an album or single while the covers of ""Whatcha Gonna Do 'Bout It"" and ""Rockin' Robin"" were previously released on the band's debut album, ""Stay with"
"embracing of Hinduism in 1966. Louise was also diligent in replying to her son's fan mail and, in the words of music journalist John Harris, she ""stood alone among the Beatle parents as an active champion of their talents"".<ref name=""Harris/Mojo"">Harris, p. 72.</ref> Harrison discussed the song at length in a 1987 interview for ""Musician"" magazine, during which he recalls that his mother developed a brain tumour late in 1969 but then recovered for seven months. After hearing of the initial diagnosis in September 1969, Harrison cancelled a recording session with Apple Records artist Jackie Lomax to see her; author Peter"
"1966 following disputes with the groups managers, missing the recording session for ""Bus Stop"", and was eventually replaced by Bernie Calvert. All of the material except the current single (""Bus Stop""/""Don't Run and Hide"") featured Eric Haydock on bass. The A-side of the single, also the album's title track, featured ""fill-in"" bassist Bernie Calvert, who later replaced Haydock in the Hollies. One song (""Little Lover""), recorded in 1963, featured original Hollies drummer Don Rathbone instead of Bobby Elliott, and two other songs ""Candy Man"" and ""Baby That's All"" came from the UK version of the group's first album, ""Stay with"
"The Hollies The Hollies are a British pop/rock group best known for their pioneering and distinctive three-part vocal harmony style. The Hollies became one of the leading British groups of the 1960s (231 weeks on the UK singles charts during the 1960s, the 9th highest of any artist of the decade) and into the mid 1970s. It was formed by Allan Clarke and Graham Nash in 1962 as a Merseybeat-type music group in Manchester, although some of the band members came from towns north of there. Graham Nash left the group in 1968 to form the supergroup Crosby, Stills &"
"Honesty (Billy Joel song) ""Honesty"" is a song by American singer and songwriter Billy Joel. Columbia Records released the song as the third single from his sixth studio album ""52nd Street"" (1978) in 1979. ""Honesty"" was solely written by Joel, while production was handled by Phil Ramone. The song was not included on any of Joel's US-released compilation packages; however, it appears on the Dutch and Japanese editions of ""Greatest Hits Volume 2"", replacing ""Don't Ask Me Why"" (1980). ""Honesty"" is a piano ballad that talks about the inherent lack of shame. The song received mostly positive reviews from music"
"The Hollies"". This was the last Hollies album in the U.S. or Canada on which songs composed by Allan Clarke, Tony Hicks and Graham Nash would be credited to ""L. Ransford"". In addition, one 1964 song included on the album is credited to another Clarke-Hicks-Nash pseudonym, ""Chester Mann"" (an inversion of Manchester, where the band was from). The Hollies Additional personnel Bus Stop (album) Bus Stop is the fourth U.S. album by the British pop band the Hollies, released on Imperial Records in mono (LP-9330) and rechanneled stereo (LP-12330) in October 1966. It features songs ranging from both sides of"
"the Hollies"". All the tracks from this EP were first recollected on the See for Miles Records compilation ""The EP Collection"" in 1987 and have seen several re-releases since then. The Hollies (EP) The Hollies is the first EP by The Hollies. It was put out by Parlophone in mono with the catalogue number GEP 8909 and released in the UK in early June 1964. The EP entered the British charts on 6 June 1964 and spent 8 weeks there, peaking at #8 on the ""Record Retailer"" chart. Band originals ""What Kind of Love"" and ""When I'm Not There"" were"
"for the band. The band-written songs (under the pseudonym, ""Ransford"") are also considered to be among the more progressive tunes on the album: ""Hard Hard Year"", ""Oriental Sadness"", ""Fifi the Flea"" and ""I've Got a Way of my Own"". ""Fifi"", covered by the Everly Brothers (see the 1966 ""Two Yanks in England"" album), had lyrics outside of the band's norm; ""Oriental Sadness"" featured distinctly Asian-sounding chords; and ""Hard Hard Year"" and ""I've Got a Way of My Own"" (which had previously appeared on the B-Side of ""If I Needed Someone"") are both folky-sounding waltzes. This was the Hollies' last album"
"1 Side 2 The Hollies Additional personnel Hollies (1965 album) Hollies is the Hollies' third LP for Parlophone. This is also referred to as ""Hollies '65"" to differentiate it from the similarly titled 1974 album. It went to No. 8 in the UK album charts. Originally available in mono only, it was reissued in stereo under the title ""Reflection"" in 1969. In 1997, British EMI put both mono and stereo versions of this album onto a single CD. Of the twelve tracks on this album, only ""So Lonely"" was issued on 45 in Great Britain; even then, it was the"
"inspired by Sandie Shaw's 1969 single ""Heaven Knows I'm Missing Him Now"". The single was the subject of some controversy upon its release due to its B-side, ""Suffer Little Children"", which is about the Moors murders between 1963 and 1965. The band's performance of the song on Channel 4's ""Earsay"" on 31 March 1984 features mixed footage of the band playing in a studio and footage of Morrissey walking around some wasteland in Manchester, with gladiolus flowers in his hands and the back pocket of his trousers. Journalist Andrew Collins borrowed the song's title for the name of his autobiographical"
"in May 1972. Surprisingly, the song became a smash hit outside of Europe, peaking at No.2 in the US (the Hollies' highest-charting single in the US) and Australia. ""Long Dark Road"", another track from ""Distant Light"" with lead vocals by Clarke, distinctive three-part harmonies, and a harmonica throughout, was then also released as a US single, reaching No.26. As a result, Epic pressured Clarke and the Hollies to reform, despite the fact that they had split over a year previously, placing Rickfors in an awkward position. Meanwhile, the Rickfors-led Hollies released their first album ""Romany"" (which reached No.84 in the"
"The family subsequently returned to Salford, where Nash grew up. In the early 1960s he co-founded the Hollies, one of the UK's most successful pop groups, with school friend Allan Clarke. Credited on the first album as ""Group Leader"", he occasionally took the lead vocals. Nash was featured vocally on ""Just One Look"" in 1964, and sang his first lead vocal on the original Hollies song ""To You My Love"" on the band's second album ""In The Hollies Style"" (1964). He then progressed to often singing featured bridge vocals on Hollies recordings; ""So Lonely"", ""I've Been Wrong"", ""Pay You Back"
"an inflamed appendix. The Hollies were forced to continue their touring commitments without him, using Tony Mansfield, Dougie Wright and Tony Newman as stand-ins for further live dates, and Wright, Mitch Mitchell and Clem Cattini when they began recording for their next album, ""Evolution"", which was released on 1 June 1967, the same day as the Beatles' ""Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"". It was also their first album for their new US label Epic. It reached UK No.13 and US No.43. The US version included the single ""Carrie Anne"". In addition, the Searchers and Paul and Barry Ryan each"
"English rock band, The Hollies, of which he was a member from its formation in 1962 till 1968. The band rejected the song as not commercial enough, but it found a home with Nash's new band Crosby, Stills and Nash. Nash recalled his inspiration for the song occurring during a Moroccan vacation he took in 1966. On the trip, Nash traveled by train from Casablanca to Marrakesh. (Whether this was an express train, he did not specify.) He began the journey in First Class, surrounded by people he found to be uninteresting—as he described it, they were all ""ladies with"
"Goodbye (Mary Hopkin song) ""Goodbye"" is a song written by Paul McCartney (but credited to Lennon–McCartney) and performed by Mary Hopkin. It was released on 28 March 1969, and it reached No. 2 in the UK singles chart, prevented from reaching the top position by the Beatles' single ""Get Back"". In the US, released 7 April 1969, the song reached No. 13 on the singles chart. In the Netherlands and Ireland the single peaked at No. 1. The song was conceived as a follow-up to the success of Hopkin's first single, produced by McCartney, titled ""Those Were the Days"", which"