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Results for The HolliesThe British-born Hollies spun a long, sweet career out of pop/rock hooks heavy on Everly-influenced harmonies. Jelling in 1963 at five performers, the line-up included lead singer Allan Clarke, vocalist/guitarist Graham Nash, Eric Haydock on bass, Tommy Hicks and drummer Bobby Elliott. Early favorites were R&B covers, and the band's style, more bubble gum than big picture, didn't threaten fellow Brits Beatles and Rolling Stones. Success in America came in the form of "Bus Stop" in 1966, at which point Haydock had moved on and Bernie Calvert moved in, and the Hollies tapped into a fan base unimpressed by the increasingly experimental vogue. Nash took off for more serious pastures, which turned out to be CSN in the States, and the Hollies cruised through the seventies with hits like "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" and "The Air That I Breathe." Disco slipped into the repertoire in the eighties, but the lack of a definitive style on the band's part and notably restrained marketing efforts on the part of its record company probably kept the Hollies from morphing into a decades-spanning success story. A small revival generated by 1983's What Goes Around with Nash in the line-up lacked stamina, and the Hollies gave up recording in the nineties....more
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by Keith Altham•August 6, 2008•
The most significant influence in popular music today, since the emergence of that well-known Lennon-McCartney firm, seems to be the mini-sized music-maker Paul Simon, who arrived on a five-day private visit to England last Monday to find no less than three of his songs in the NME Top 20. They are, of course, the Bachelors' “Sound of Silence” (4), the Seekers' “Some Day One Day” (16), and the number he sings
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by Paul Williams•July 30, 2008•
He was the Prometheus who crossed the finish line, even if he just picked up his fire down the street in Big Mama Thornton or even Carl Perkins’ neighborhoods (and—let’s be fair—Elvis did add considerable fire of his own to all his best recordings). And his breakthrough record, a performance that still resonates today with all the spine-tingling power and dignity and mystery of a classic rock ‘n’ roll single (weird dead-Elvis cargo cult notwithstanding), was “Heartbreak Hotel.”
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by Denise Sullivan•July 9, 2008•
The list of rock figures who bowed to Diddley is quite simply too long and insane to mention, though my three favorites are the Rolling Stones, Tom Petty, and the Clash.
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by Steve Matteo•July 9, 2008•
"a means of gaining insight into the music that has shaped Dylan’s musical vocabulary"
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by Steve Matteo•June 18, 2008•
"Sweetened rockabilly and ballpark organ pop give the music a subtle grandeur"
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8/21/2007
Diane M: Good for you, that is, teaching this music history. And, the thing is about this era -- the music is strongly...
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8/18/2007
Mr. Link Wray took over for Buddy Holly to complete his tour when he passed on to Rock 'n' Roll Heaven on Feb 3 1959....
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3/5/2007
Is it possible to find out if any recording of The Hollies at Berkely Community Theatre or any other venue exists in...
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2/1/2007
Wolfgang, someone wrote you to say that the Filmores’ (East and West) are (were) “the holly grail of rock n roll” As...
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11/14/2006
Does a tape exist for THE HOLLIES who played in Santa Monica or Berkley 1972/1973???
It is difficult to hear live...
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