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TONY HICKS. Born: 16th December 1945 Joined The Hollies: 1963 Guitar, Banjo, Vocals, Mandolin, Electric Sitar
The Hollies are one of Britain's best loved bands. Performing songs like, Stay, Just One Look, Carrie Anne, He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother, The Air That I Breathe and Long cool Woman, the band ...
Dec 16, 2020 · 4: Carrie Anne (1967) One of several Hollies singles bearing a girl’s name, Carrie Anne was a rhyming cover-up of a more famous name. The Hollies’ singer, Allan Clarke, had had a discreet fling with one of the great icons of 60s pop, Marianne Faithfull, and Graham Nash penned this song about her.
The Hollies' fortunes kept rising even after band cofounder Graham Nash split to join Crosby, Stills & Nash (The Hollies rejected Nash’s “Marrakesh Express,” which became huge for CS&N). Subsequent hits were the civil rights tearjerker “He Ain’t Heavy...
The Hollies are an English rock and pop band formed in 1962. One of the leading British groups of the 1960s and into the mid-1970s, they are known for their distinctive three-part vocal harmony style. Allan Clarke and Graham Nash founded the band as a Merseybeat-type group in Manchester, although some of the band members came from towns further north, in east Lancashire. Nash left the group in ...
