Graham Nash

Graham Nash

Graham William Nash (born 2 February 1942) is a British singer-songwriter known for his light tenor vocals and for his songwriting contributions with the British pop group The Hollies, and with the folk-rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Nash is a photography collector and a published photographer.

August, CSNY play the Woodstock Festival.

Nash becomes politically active after moving to San Francisco. Along with others like Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan, Nash presses for social change with his lyrics of outrage: Military Madness and Chicago (We Can Change the World). His songs resonate because they derive from shared experience: Immigration Man.

Interested in photography as a child, Nash began to collect photographs in the 1970s. He searches for images that reveal the human condition. The sale of his massive collection in 1990 by Sotheby's becomes a milestone in the auction market for fine-art photography. Proceeds of the auction sale provide the financial means to found Nash Editions, the first ever digital fine-art printing atelier.

In the late 1980s, Nash began to experiment with the early digital printers then becoming available through commercial printing bureaus in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Creating a true black and white print proved difficult. None of the printers were very successful although the IRIS Graphics 3047 printer showed promise because it could print on fine art papers. Nash met programmer David Coons through friend Steve Boulter of IRIS Graphics. With image management software written by David Coons and using a custom scanner designed and assembled by David Coons, David Coons and Graham Nash developed methods to adapt the IRIS printer for the fine-arts printing of black-and-white photographs on archival-paper substrates.

The system that was to form the basis of Nash Editions was first tested in 1989 by Sally Larsen to produced her Transformer ink jet print series, one of which is now in the permanent collection of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. These very first IRIS prints made with David Coons' software were printed by him on one of Walt Disney Studio's IRIS Graphics IRIS 3047 printers.

In 1990 Graham Nash showed his own photography at Parco Stores in Tokyo. The Parco show entitled Sunlight on Silver was a series of celebrity portraits by Nash which were reconstructed by David Coons from a proof sheet. This Parco show was the first exhibition ever of digitally produced fine art. The show travelled throughout Japan and was seen by thousands. . Subsequently, Nash exhibited his photographs at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego and elsewhere.

In 2005, Nash donated an IRIS Graphics 3047 printer and Nash Editions ephemera to the National Museum of American History, a Smithsonian Institution.

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Graham Nash (Countdown)

Graham Nash (born December 25, 1979) is Countdown's 43rd Champion and the 11th Champion of Champions. His current record stands at 15 wins out of 15; one of only two unbeaten champions in the show's history. He later appeared on GrandSlam, losing to Dee Voce.

Graham made his debut on the 20 July 2000 and won the maximum eight consecutive heat games making him the number one seed. However his points total was beaten by David Williams and he was knocked down to second seed.

However Williams fell in the semi-final, while Nash won his match against Clare Wright. This set up a final between Graham and Matthew Turner.

It was a close and nervous final, as both players had numerous words disallowed. The points were level until Graham got 901 correctly on the numbers game and Matthew only got 900. This ten point lead remained until the last round, where Matthew could tie the game on the conundrum. But it was Graham who spotted RENEWABLE in six seconds and became the Series 43 Countdown champion.

Graham returned three years later for the C of C. He was one of several unbeaten players, including Ben Wilson, Chris Wills and Julian Fell. Only one of them could remain unbeaten.

Graham's match against David Ballheimer was a comfortable enough win for him, although his second round match was anything but.

Graham's semi-final was another excellent game. Tom Hargreaves came close to beating him, but when Graham offered CLEARINGS and Tom offered RESCALING, Tom's word was ruled invalid which gave Graham an extra 18 points. Indeed Graham went on to win by 21 points, setting up a final with Series 47 unbeaten champion Chris Wills.

The final was a low scoring affair, not helped by poor letters selections and difficult numbers games. Chris took the lead with GAMBADE but Graham pegged him back with PENSIVE and when Chris had MISTLE disallowed, Graham took a six point lead. This lead remained until the final conundrum where Chris could solve it and win by four points. OVERSPADE was revealed and the full 30 seconds ticked away - neither contestant could solve it. As the clock ran out, Graham raised his arms and shouted with joy. He had just won Champion Of Champions 11, 15 wins out of 15.

Graham returned for the Channel 4 game show Grand Slam. The show was hosted by Countdown's own Carol Vorderman and former Football Italia presenter James Richardson. The show pitted sixteen of the countries biggest game show winners against each other in order to find the greatest quiz player in the United Kingdom.

Graham's first round match was against Laura Richardson. Laura had a slender lead going into the general knowledge round, but panicked and gave away a massive 50 seconds, giving Graham a 68 second advantage going into the final round. Laura performed badly in the last round, and Graham won by a convincing 104 seconds.

Graham faced Dee Voce in the quarter-final. Dee had a 60.5 second lead going into the deciding round, and beat Graham by a firm 75.7 seconds. The eventual winner was Series 8 Countdown Champion and Scrabble ace Clive Spate.

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After the split of CSNY in the summer of 1970, all four members would release solo albums over the course of the ensuing twelve months. While both Neil Young and Stephen Stills would pursue independent band projects through the decade (such as Manassas), Crosby and Nash embarked on a series of concerts together in 1971, deciding to take the new songs audited on the road into the recording studio. Sessions for this album featured backing from members of The Grateful Dead on one track and the CSNY band on another, but mostly from The Section, consisting of Craig Doerge, Danny Kortchmar, Leland Sklar, and Russell Kunkel. This quartet would be among the most in-demand session musicians on the West Coast in the 1970s, appearing on dozens of albums, notably those by James Taylor and Carole King. They would continue to work with Crosby & Nash for the remainder of the decade, both in the studio and on tour.

The songs continued the qualities that marked the pair's work with the larger aggregate, with Nash writing tighter pop songs including the album's hit, and Crosby exploring mood pieces and introspection, all amidst strong vocal harmonies. The album peaked at number six on the Billboard album charts, and it yielded a minor hit single in the form of "Immigration Man." The commercial success of this album, outstripping that of the two solo albums by Nash and Crosby from the previous year, prompted Crosby & Nash to continue as a unit until the more or less permanent reunion with Stills in 1977. During the heyday of the California sound of the seventies, they would release two more studio albums, Wind on the Water in 1975 and Whistling Down the Wire in 1976, in addition to working frequently as session vocalists, gracing many recordings of like artists with their mellifluous harmonies. They released one contemporary concert record, Crosby-Nash Live in 1977, and an archive document of their tour from 1971, appearing in 1998 as Another Stoney Evening. Their fourth studio album credited to Crosby & Nash arrived in 2004, twenty-eight years after the previous one.

This album was reissued for compact disc in 1998 in Europe as part of the Atlantic Original Sound series, with a re-release of 50 titles in celebration of Atlantic Records' fiftieth anniversary.

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Stephen Stills

Stephen Stills was born in Dallas, Texas on January 3, 1945 to a military family. Moving around as a child, he developed an interest in blues and folk music. He was also influenced by Latin music after spending his youth in Gainesville and Tampa, Florida, Costa Rica and the Panama Canal Zone, where he graduated from high school, and was an avid sailor. He also attended Admiral Farragut Academy in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Stills dropped out of the University of Florida to pursue a music career in the early 1960s. He played in a series of unsuccessful bands including The Continentals, which featured future Eagles guitarist Don Felder. Stills could also be seen singing solo in Gerde's Folk City, a well-known coffee house in Greenwich Village. Stills eventually ended up in a nine-member vocal harmony group, the house act at the famous Cafe Au Go Go in NYC, called the Au Go Go Singers (Rick Geiger, Roy Michaels, Michael Scott, Jean Gurney, Kathy King, Nels Gustafson, Bob Harmelink, Richie Furay & Stills) where and when he met Richie Furay. This group also did some touring in the Catskills, and in the South, released one album in 1964, then broke up in 1965. Afterwards, Stills, along with four other former members of the Au Go Go Singers: Geiger, Michaels, Gurney & Scott, formed The Company, a folk/rock group. The Company embarked on a 6-week tour of Canada where Stills met a young guitarist named Neil Young. On the VH1 CSNY Legends special, Stills would say that Young was doing what he always wanted to do, "play folk music in a rock band." (This sentiment was repeated decades later; the shaky relationship has been well documented between the two, although they continued to perform together throughout various times in their lives.) The Company broke up in New York within four months, opening up the way for Geiger to join a light opera company in Los Angeles; Michaels to link up with Jimi Hendrix, Gurney to go on to college while doing TV commercials, and Scott to tour with a retro-Highwaymen. Stills did session work and went to various auditions (including an unsuccessful one for The Monkees). In 1966 he convinced a reluctant former Au Go Go Singer, Richie Furay, then living in Massachusetts, to move with him to California.

Stills, Furay, and Young reunited in Los Angeles and formed the core of Buffalo Springfield. Legend has it that Stills and Furay recognized Young's converted hearse on the streets of LA and flagged him down, a meeting described in the recent solo track "Round the Bend". The band would release three albums (Buffalo Springfield, Buffalo Springfield Again, and Last Time Around) and one hit single (Stills' "For What It's Worth") before breaking up.

Stills' guitar playing continually evolved. Early on, it displayed sources in generic rock 'n' roll, blues, and country music, as well as the chordings familiar in the acoustic-folk music scene. Soon Stills' playing showed the influence of his friend Jimi Hendrix and also sometimes the rhythms and riffs of various kinds of Latin music. Stills is notorious for experimenting with the guitar itself. This includes such things as soaking strings in barbecue sauce or flipping pickups to mimic Hendrix playing a right-handed guitar left-handed. He is also known for using unconventional tunings, particularly on acoustic. He is also adept at piano, organ and bass and plays some drums. 'Stephen had a vision', Nash says. 'David and I let him run with it.' Stills played nearly every instrument on Crosby, Stills and Nash, earning the nickname Captain Manyhands from Rolling Stone.

During the disintegration of Buffalo Springfield, Stills joined up with ex-Byrd David Crosby and ex-Hollie Graham Nash to form the supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash. Cass Elliot invited Graham Nash over to meet Stills and David Crosby at the home of well known folk artist and painter Joni Mitchell, who painted several artworks of the three. Mitchell also contributed the artwork seen on the cover of the CSNY collection album "So Far", released in 1974. The cover photo pictured on the trio's first self-titled album in 1969 was taken on the back porch of a house in West Hollywood which was torn down the next day. Stills overdubbed much of the musical backing himself for the first CSN album with only Dallas Taylor's drums and some rhythm guitar from Crosby and Nash. Neil Young was added for their second album, and the group became Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. Despite several breakups and reformations, CSN (and sometimes CSNY) still record and tour to this day.

Having played at the Monterey Pop Festival with Buffalo Springfield, and both Woodstock and Altamont with CSNY, Stills performed at all three of the iconic rock festivals of the 1960s.

In the wake of CSNY's success, all four members recorded solo albums. In 1970, Stills released his self-titled debut, which featured guests Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix (on what was possibly his last recording before he died), "Mama" Cass Elliot, Booker T Jones and Ringo Starr (credited only as "Richie") as well as contributions from various members of the CSNY band. It provided Stills with the hit single "Love The One You're With" as well as the concert favorite "Black Queen." Stills followed this with Stephen Stills 2, which featured "Change Partners." Even though the song was written before CSN formed, Nash saw it as a metaphor for the many relationships in CSNY, while Stills viewed the band as something much less bland and repetitive.

The next year, Stills teamed up with ex-Byrd Chris Hillman and several CSNY sidemen to form the band Manassas. With Manassas Stills recorded the self-titled double album Manassas. The album was a mixture of blues, folk and Latin music divided into different sections, and is considered by many to be one of Stills' best albums.

During a Manassas tour in France, Stills met and married French singer-songwriter Veronique Sanson. Then he switched to Columbia Records, where he recorded two albums: Stills in 1975 and the punningly titled Illegal Stills in 1976. The former record found Stills in an uncharacteristically joyful mood; his marriage was going great, his son Chris had just been born, and he was happy living in Colorado. "To Mama From Christopher and the Old Man" was an exceptionally optimistic view of his new family.

In 1976, Stills attempted a reunion with Neil Young. At one point, Long May You Run was slated to be a CSNY record, but when Crosby and Nash left to fulfill recording and touring obligations, according to both David and Graham the other pair wiped their vocals from the recordings, as Stills and Young decided to go on without their erstwhile partners as The Stills-Young Band. However, Young would leave midway through the resulting tour due to an apparent throat infection. Stills was contractually bound to finish the tour, which he did, but upon returning home, his wife announced she wanted a divorce and wished to move back to France. Stills reunited with Crosby and Nash shortly afterwards, thanks to the efforts of Nash's future wife Susan, who got Nash to forgive Stills for wiping the Crosby and Nash vocals from Long May You Run. This led to the semi-permanent CSN reunion of 1977, which has persisted even though all three have released solo records since then. In 1978, he performed in a jam session in The Last Waltz. Although Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young had difficulties with their differing individual goals, egos, and musical styles, in the early 1983 "Daylight Again" DVD from the 1982 CSN tour, Stills introduced the song, "Wasted on the Way", commenting that there were "three buddies who didn't know how to talk to one another for years"... finally "making friends" getting rich, and it being good. Unfortunately, according to Crosby's biography, it was his lowest point in his addiction to cocaine, which left him in prison without funds for a time.

In 1997, Stills became the first person to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice in the same night for his work with CSN and the Buffalo Springfield. Fender Musical Instruments crafted a custom guitar and presented it to Stills to commemorate the occasion, this Telecaster style guitar bears an inscription on the neck plate.

2005 saw Stills release Man Alive!, his first solo offering in 14 years. Although not troubling the chart compilers on either side of the Atlantic, the record was critically well received and is regarded by many fans as his best since the mid seventies.

Throughout 2006 and 2007, Stills toured regularly as a solo artist with "The Quartet," which consisted of drummer Joe Vitale, either Mike Finnegan or Todd Caldwell on keyboards, and either Kevin McCormick or Kenny Pasarelli on bass. Often a long acoustic solo section of the show would feature songs rarely played and showcase agile finger style playing in standard and altered tunings. Stills toured Europe as a solo artist for the first time during October 2008.

Nearly from their union as sometime musical partners, all four members of CSN&Y have long been involved in liberal causes and politics. In 2000, Stills served as a member of the Democratic credentials committee from Florida during the Democratic National Convention, and was an actual delegate in previous years.

Stills was a prolific songwriter before becoming a star performer; his composition "Sit Down, I Think I Love You" was a minor hit for The Mojo Men before it was recorded by Buffalo Springfield.

In 1966, Stills auditioned for The Monkees, but he dropped out, partially because his already-thinning hair and bad teeth made him look too old for the part, and partially because the actor's contract required him to assign his music publishing rights to Screen Gems, something he did not want to do. Stills instead recommended his former roommate, Peter Torkelson, who got the job.

Stills was a close friend of Jimi Hendrix, who appears on Stills' eponymous first solo album. Reputedly, when Hendrix was forming his trio The Jimi Hendrix Experience, his manager contacted Stills' manager to invite Stills to become the group's bass player. Concerned that Stills' friendship with Hendrix and admiration for Hendrix' genius might prompt Stills to take the job rather than continue with the Buffalo Springfield, Stills' manager elected not to pass the message on to Stills. Noel Redding was then offered and took the job as bassist with the Experience. Within a year, both Stills and Hendrix were superstars in their own right; they continued to socialize and jam together informally up until Hendrix' untimely death in 1970.

Stills' son, Justin Stills, was badly injured at age 26 snowboarding in Tahoe in 1997; an episode of Discovery Health's documentary series Trauma: Life in the ER featured his treatment and recovery. Another son, Henry, has been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome , and is profiled in the 2007 documentary Autism: The Musical. His son Chris and daughter Jennifer are both recording artists. His youngest son, Oliver Ragland, was born in 2004 and named in honor of Neil Young, whose maternal family name is Ragland.

On May 28, 2007, Stills sang the National Anthem for Game 1 of the 2007 Stanley Cup Finals between Anaheim and Ottawa in Anaheim, California.

On December 17, 2007, Graham Nash revealed on Larry King Live that Stills has been diagnosed with early stage prostate cancer and that he will have an operation on January 3, 2008, his birthday.

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No Nukes group

Bonnie Raitt, Graham Nash and Jackson Browne are part of the No Nukes group which is against the expansion of nuclear power. In 2007 they recorded a music video of a new version of the Buffalo Springfield song "For What It's Worth". Bonnie Raitt, Graham Nash, and Jackson Browne are among the co-founders of Musicians United for Safe Energy.

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The Hollies

The Hollies are an English pop band from Manchester formed in the early 1960s. Known for their distinctive vocal harmony style (which influenced many other groups) they became one of the leading British bands of the era, and they enjoyed considerable popularity in many other countries (including Australia) although they did not achieve major US chart success until the early 1970s. Like The Rolling Stones and Steeleye Span, they are also notable as one of the few British pop bands of the Sixties that has never officially broken up and which continues to record and perform to the present.

Member Graham Nash told Public Radio International (Bob Edwards show--February 15, 2009) that the group decided just prior to a performance to call themselves the Hollies because of their admiration for Buddy Holly. The original lineup included Allan Clarke as lead vocalist, Graham Nash as guitarist and backup vocalist, Jeremy Levine on rhythm guitar, with Eric Haydock and Don Rathbone rounding out the group on bass and drums. Levine, due to a run-in with the law, was dismissed from the group shortly before they signed to Parlophone in 1963 as label-mates of The Beatles. The group released their first album in the United States in 1964 as part of the first wave of British Invasion releases. They are commonly associated with Manchester, as some of the original Hollies grew up in the city. Tony Hicks then Bobby Elliot who both played in a Nelson based band, the Dolphins, joined the band in quick succession in 1963. Bernie Calvert who replaced Haydock in 1966 was also a Dolphin member.

The Hollies had a squeaky-clean image, and were known for their bright vocal harmonies. Their EMI debut single Ain't That Just Like Me,released May 1 1963, hit #25 on the UK singles chart.Their second single, a cover of The Coasters, Searchin' hit number 12. They scored their first British top ten hit in early 1964 with a cover of Maurice Williams and The Zodiac's "Stay" which hit #8 in the UK Singles Chart, it was from the bands Parlophone debut album "Stay With The Hollies", released Jan. 1 1964, the album went to # 2 on the UK chart.A version of the album would show up in the U.S. as Here I Go Again, on The Hollies then U.S. label Imperial.They followed up with a cover of Doris Troy's "Just One Look". But as the 1960s moved forward, the cover versions receded; and, songs provided them by such writers as Graham Gouldman plus---more significantly---written by the group's in-house songwriting trio of Clarke, Hicks, and Nash, began providing the hits.

After The Beatles, The Hollies were the most successful British 'singles' bands of the 1960s, scoring twenty-two UK Top 40 placings between 1964 and 1970. Their hits include "Here I Go Again" (#4, 1964);the bands first self penned hit "We're Through" (#7 1964); "Look Through Any Window" (#4, 1965, U.S. #32); "Yes I Will" (#9, 1965); their only British #1 single, the Clint Ballard, Jr. penned "I'm Alive" (U.S. #103) (1965); three UK #2 hits during 1966 - "Bus Stop" (U.S. #5) (written by future 10CC member Graham Gouldman);"I Can't Let Go" (U.S. #42); and, such Clarke-Hicks-Nash-written material as "Stop Stop Stop" (U.S. #7); "Carrie Anne" (#3, 1967, U.S. #9, from which actress Carrie-Anne Moss got her name, having been born when the song was on the charts); "On a Carousel" (#4, 1967, U.S. #11); and "Jennifer Eccles" (#7, 1968, U.S. #40).

The rhythm section included drummer Bobby Elliot and bass guitarist Eric Haydock. Bernie Calvert replaced Eric Haydock in 1966. Producer Ron Richards criticized Calvert's bass playing in the liner notes to Epic Records' 20 Song Anthology.

Some of their songs had folk rock elements (e.g., Would You Believe?), and psychedelic influences, Evolution and Butterfly). "If I Needed Someone" (No. 20, 1965), was a George Harrison composition, recorded by The Beatles on Rubber Soul. "King Midas in Reverse" (No. 18, 1967), a Clarke-Hicks-Nash song, was influenced by prevailing trends in psychedelia, with a strings, brass and flute arrangement.

Their albums during this period are like most British bands albums in that the U.S. releases are generally always altered. The Hollies second album "In The Hollies Style"(1964) did not chart and none of it's tracks were released in the U.S. The Hollies third album simply called "Hollies" hit number 8 in the UK in 1965. Their fourth "Would You Believe" made it to number 16 in 1966. Released in the U.S. as Hear Here and Beat Group, they failed to crack the top 100. Meanwhile a U.S. Imperial "Bus Stop" album made of songs clipped from earlier albums climbed to #75. The bands first U.S. album to enter the top 100.

While all their albums had original compositions,these were usually listed under the pseudonym L.Ransford. The Hollies released their first album consisting entirely of self penned material in October 1966."For Certain because"(UK #23 1966)was the bands fifth album and the first to feature only compositions by Clarke Hicks Nash. Released in the U.S. as Stop! Stop! Stop! it reached U.S. # 91 and spawned a U.S. release only single "Pay You Back With Interest" which was a modest hit reaching U.S. #28. Another track "Tell Me To My Face" would be covered a decade later by Dan Fogelberg and Tim Weisberg on their "Twin Son's Of Different Mothers" album .

Their next album "Evolution" was released on June 1 1967. It was also their first on their new U.S. label Epic. It reached UK #13 and U.S. #43. The U.S. version included the single "Carrie Anne".It was psychedelic and the sound experiments continued through their next album "Butterfly" released in the U.S. as Dear Eloise/King Midas In Reverse. Neither version charted. It would be the last album that featured Graham Nash, till the 1980's. A Parlophone collection of some of the bands earliest singles was released as "The Hollies Greatest" and went to #1 on the UK charts in 1968.An Imperial "Hollies Greatest Hits" was a # 11 hit in the U.S. a year earlier.

When Nash left in 1968 due to creative differences, in particular over the plan to record a full album of Dylan songs, he joined forces with former Buffalo Springfield guitarist Stephen Stills and ex-Byrds singer David Crosby to form one of the first supergroups, Crosby, Stills & Nash. He was replaced by guitarist-singer Terry Sylvester, formerly of the The Swinging Blue Jeans. This lineup had a hit in 1969 with "Sorry, Suzanne", which reached No. 3 in the UK. In time, too, Sylvester proved a capable substitution for Nash as part of the band's songwriting team.

Their first album in the wake of Nash's departure was "Hollies Sing Dylan" which soared to the number 3 position on the UK chart while the U.S. version "Words And Music By Bob Dylan" was ignored. The next album "Hollies Sing Hollies" didn't chart in the UK, but the U.S. version called "He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother" included the hit single by the same name and reached U.S. # 32.

The group hit No. 3 again in 1970 with the emotional civil rights themed ballad "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother", which featured the piano playing of Elton John. The next single, "I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top",also featured Elton John's piano playing and hit #7 in the UK in 1970. The UK hits continued with "Gasoline Alley Bred"(UK #14 1970) and the hard edged rocker"Hey Willy"(UK #22 1971). Band member Allan Clarke briefly left the group in 1971 for a solo career. With the end of their EMI/Parlophone contract they signed with Polydor, and Swedish singer Mikael Rickfors sang on the song "The Baby"(UK #26 1972). Meanwhile EMI had taken a track from their album "Distant Light", which had Clarke on lead vocal and lead guitar, the Creedence Clearwater Revival-inspired song, "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress", as a rival single, reaching #2 in the US and #32 in the UK. Clarke rejoined in 1973 and they returned to the UK Top 30 with another swamp rock-style song penned by Clarke, "The Day That Curly Billy Shot Down Crazy Sam McGee"(UK #24 1973).

In 1974 they had a UK No. 2 hit and US Top Ten success with the love song "The Air That I Breathe"; it had previously been recorded by Phil Everly on one of his solo albums. It was their last UK hit for over a decade. Subsequent singles like "Son of a Rotten Gambler", "I'm Down", "Boulder to Birmingham", and "Sandy" failed to chart.

In 1980 The Hollies returned to the UK charts with the stirring single "Soldier's Song" which was a mild hit in 1980 reaching number 58 in the UK. They also released an album of Buddy Holly covers aptly named Buddy Holly. In 1981 Calvert and Sylvester left. And The Hollies recorded their own contribution, "Holliedaze", which returned them to the UK Top 30. Nash and Haydock briefly rejoined to promote the record on Top of the Pops. They continued to record and tour throughout the mid-1980s, last hitting the US Top 40 with a remake of The Supremes' "Stop in the Name of Love", which reached #29 in 1983, from the album What Goes Around. A live album featuring the Clarke-Hicks-Elliott-Nash regrouping, Reunion, followed that same year.

After its use in a TV beer commercial (for Miller Lite lager) in the summer of 1988, "He Ain't Heavy" was reissued in the UK and reached #1, thus establishing a new record for the length of time between chart-topping singles for one artist of 23 years. By this time bassist Ray Stiles, formerly a member of 1970s chart-topping glam rock group Mud, had joined the permanent lineup. A reissue early in 1989 of "The Air That I Breathe" only made #60. In 1993 another new single, "The Woman I Love", written by Nik Kershaw, reached #42 in the UK.

The Hollies still tour with two original members, Hicks and Elliott. After Clarke's retirement in 1999, he was replaced by Carl Wayne, former lead singer of The Move. Wayne only recorded one song with them, "How Do I Survive", the last (and only new) track on the 2003 Greatest Hits. After his death from cancer in August 2004, he was replaced by Peter Howarth. The Hollies' first new studio album since 1983, Staying Power was released in 2006.

The bridge was taken and retooled from the verse of The Hollies song "The Air That I Breathe" written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazelwood in the 70s to form part of the Radiohead song "Creep". After taking issue, Hammond and Hazelwood now share a small portion of the songwriting credits and royalties.

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David Crosby

David Van Cortlandt Crosby (born August 14, 1941) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He was a founding member of three bands: The Byrds, Crosby, Stills & Nash which is sometimes augmented with Neil Young, and CPR. Crosby is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work in the Byrds and CSN.

David Crosby was born in Los Angeles, California. His parents were Aliph Van Cortlandt Whitehead and Floyd Crosby, an Academy Award winning cinematographer. Growing up in California, he attended several schools, including the University Elementary School in Los Angeles and the Crane Country Day School in Montecito, California, for the rest of his elementary school and junior high. At Crane, he starred in HMS Pinafore and other musicals but was asked not to return due to lack of academic progress. He graduated from the Cate School, Carpinteria, California, completing his studies by correspondence. In 1960, his parents divorced and his father was remarried to Betty Christie Crosby.

He also attended Santa Barbara City College. Originally, he was a drama student, but he dropped out of drama school to pursue a career in music. He moved toward the same Greenwich Village scene (as a member of the Les Baxter's Balladeers) Bob Dylan participated in, and even shared a mentor of Bob Dylan's in a local scene favorite Fred Neil. With the help of producer Jim Dickson, Crosby cut his first solo session in 1963.

Crosby joined Jim McGuinn (who later changed his name to Roger) and Gene Clark, who were then named the Jet Set (although there is no evidence that they ever performed under that name). They were augmented by drummer Michael Clarke, at which point Crosby attempted to play bass unsuccessfully. Late in 1964, Chris Hillman joined as bassist, and Crosby relieved Gene Clark of rhythm guitar duties. Somehow, they managed to obtain a demo recording of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" and recorded a cover version of the song featuring McGuinn's 12 string guitar and Crosby's and Clark's vocal harmonizing. The song turned into a massive hit, soaring to #1 on the charts in 1965.

While Roger McGuinn originated The Byrds' trademark 12 string guitar sound (which he in turn took from George Harrison on "A Hard Day's Night"), Crosby was responsible for the soaring harmonies and often unusual phrasing on their songs.

In 1966, Gene Clark, who then was the band's primary songwriter, left the group due to stress. This placed all the group's songwriting responsibilities in the hands of Crosby and McGuinn. Crosby took the opportunity to hone his craft, and soon blossomed into a prolific and talented songwriter. His early Byrds efforts included the classic 1966 hit "Eight Miles High", which he co-wrote with Clark and McGuinn, and its flip side, "Why" co-written with McGuinn, which showed Crosby at his hard-edged best.

Crosby is widely credited with popularizing the song "Hey Joe", after he picked it up from Dino Valente. He taught the song to Bryan MacLean and Arthur Lee of Love, who then taught it to members of The Leaves. Since he felt responsible for having popularized the song, Crosby convinced the other members of the Byrds to cover it on Fifth Dimension. By Younger Than Yesterday, the Byrds' album of 1967, Crosby clearly began to find his trademark style.

Friction between Crosby and the other Byrds came to a head in 1967 over two specific issues: his substitution, at the invitation of Stephen Stills, for an absent Neil Young during Buffalo Springfield’s set at the famous Monterey Pop Festival in June; and the Byrds’ rejection of Crosby’s controversial "Triad" composition as either a single or an album cut on Notorious Byrd Brothers in August. It was widely reported that the other Byrds were offended by the topic which suggested a ménage à trois. This angered Crosby so much that he began to frequently skip sessions. As a result, Crosby was dismissed from the Byrds in the fall of 1967. Jefferson Airplane recorded "Triad" and released it on their album Crown of Creation in 1968. David Crosby sang a solo acoustic version on Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's 1971 double live album Four Way Street. The Byrds' version appeared decades later on the 1988 Never Before release and is now available on the CD re-release of Notorious Byrd Brothers.

Around the time of Crosby's firing, he met a recently unemployed Stephen Stills at a party at the home of Cass Elliot (Mama Cass) in California in March 1968, and the two started meeting informally together and jamming. They were soon joined by Graham Nash, who left his commercially successful group The Hollies to play with Crosby and Stills. Remarkably, their appearance at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in August 1969 constituted their second live performance ever.

Their first album, Crosby, Stills & Nash of 1969 was an immediate hit, spawning two Top 40 hit singles and receiving key airplay on the new FM radio format, in its early days populated by unfettered disc jockeys who then had the option of playing entire albums at once.

While in CSN, he wrote many important songs. These include "Guinnevere," "Almost Cut My Hair," "Long Time Gone," and "Delta". He also co-wrote "Wooden Ships" with Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane and Stephen Stills.

In 1969, Neil Young joined the group, and with him they recorded the album Déjà Vu, which went to number 1 on the charts. That same year, Crosby's longtime girlfriend Christine Hinton was killed in a car accident only days after Hinton, Crosby, and fellow girlfriend Debbie Donovan moved from Los Angeles to the Bay Area. Crosby was devastated, and he began abusing drugs much more severely than he had before. Nevertheless, he still managed to contribute "Almost Cut My Hair" and the title track "Déjà Vu". After the release of the double live album Four Way Street, the group went on a temporary hiatus to focus on their respective solo careers.

In December 1969, David appeared with CSNY at the Altamont Free Concert hosted by The Rolling Stones, thus performing at all three of the iconic rock festivals of the 1960s, along with Monterey Pop and Woodstock. At the beginning of the new decade, he briefly did a stint with Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh and Mickey Hart from the Grateful Dead, performing together as "David and the Dorks," and making a live recording at the Matrix on December 15, 1970.

CSNY reunited in 1973 at the Winterland in San Francisco. This served as a prelude to their highly successful stadium tour in the summer of 1974. Prior to the tour, the foursome attempted to record a new album entitled Human Highway. The recording session, which took place at Neil Young's ranch, was very unpleasant, and marked by constant bickering. The bickering eventually became too much, and the album was cancelled.

In rehearsals for the 1974 tour, CSNY recorded a then-unreleased David Crosby song, "Little Blind Fish." A different version of the song would appear on the second CPR album more than two decades later.

The 1974 tour was also full of constant bickering, though they managed to finish it without interruption. A greatest hits compilation entitled So Far was released during 1974 to capitalize on the foursome's reunion tour.

They made another attempt at a CSNY album in 1976. This ended bitterly as both Crosby & Nash and Stills & Young were under pressure from their respective duo's record companies to release a new record prior to the competing tours. Stills & Young wound up deleting the Crosby & Nash vocals from their album "Long May You Run" and then embarking on the ill-fated Stills/Young Summer 1976 tour.

CSNY would not perform together again as a foursome until Live Aid in Philadelphia in 1985. Two albums followed, 1988's American Dream and 2000's Looking Forward. CSNY performed sporadically in the late 1980s and into the 1990s (mainly at Young's annual Bridge School Benefit). However, CSN (without Young) reformed in 1977 and have toured and recorded since.

Fullscale CSNY tours took place in 2000, 2002 and 2006.

Crosby, Stills and Nash appeared together on a 2008 episode of The Colbert Report, and "Neil Young" joined them during the musical performance at the end of the episode. However, eventually, it became clear that it was only Stephen Colbert impersonating Young as the group sang "Teach Your Children".

In 1971, Crosby released his first solo album If I Could Only Remember My Name, featuring contributions by Nash, Young, Joni Mitchell, along with members of Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, and Santana. Panned on release by Rolling Stone, it has received more critical respect with the passage of time and is still in print.

Crosby and Graham Nash have also released several albums as a duo known as Crosby & Nash.

Some other popular songs Crosby wrote in the 1970s include "Where Will I Be?", "Carry Me," "Bittersweet," "Time After Time," "Foolish Man," and "In My Dreams".

Renewing his ties to the San Francisco milieu that had abetted so well on his solo album, Crosby participated in electronica composer Ned Lagin’s proto-ambient project Seastones, along with members of the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Starship.. He also sang back up vocals on "Highway Song" from the Hot Tuna album Burgers. In 1999, he appeared on Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons, singing a duet of the title track with Lucinda Williams.

In 2006 Crosby worked with David Gilmour in his third solo album: On an Island; along with Nash. You can hear Crosby and Nash sing along with Gilmour on the second track on the album "On an Island". The album was released in March of 2006 and reached #1 quickly on the UK charts. Both Crosby and Nash also performed live with Gilmour in his concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London in May 2006 and toured together in the USA, which can be seen on Gilmour's 2007 DVD "Remember That Night".

During the early 1990s, he appeared as a guest star in several episodes of The John Larroquette Show, where he played the part of John Hemingway's AA sponsor. He appeared on an episode of Roseanne as the singer husband of one of Roseanne's co-workers. He sang the Danny Sheridan composition "Roll On Down" on that episode. He also appeared as a pirate in the 1991 film Hook, as a '70s Hippie in the 1991 film Backdraft, and as a bartender in the 1992 feature film, Thunderheart.

Crosby has also voiced himself on two episodes of The Simpsons, "Marge in Chains" and "Homer's Barbershop Quartet".

David was the recipient of a highly publicized liver transplant in 1995. News of his transplant created some controversy because of his celebrity and his past issues with drug addiction.

Crosby has diabetes and is being treated with insulin to manage this disease.

In 1982, after appearing in criminal courts facing several drugs and weapons charges, Crosby spent 11 months in Texas prisons. The drug charges stemmed from charges related to possession of heroin and cocaine.

At a concert in October, 2008 Crosby, looking quite thinner than in recent years announced to the audience that he'd recently shed 55 pounds.

Two of Crosby's children were placed for adoption, a son James Raymond in 1962 and a daughter (Erika Keller) in 1966. He has been reunited with both of them as adults. Raymond is a musician, and the two of them record and perform with Jeff Pevar as Crosby, Pevar & Raymond (CPR).

Crosby has two other children. He has a daughter, Donovan Crosby, with girlfriend Debbie Donovan. After extensive ferility treatments while Crosby's liver was failing, he and wife Jan Dance conceived son Django Crosby.

He is married to Jan Dance but had a number of long term relationships, including those with Christine Hinton, Debbie Donovan and Joni Mitchell.

In January 2000, Melissa Etheridge, a lesbian musician announced that Crosby was the biological father of the two children she and her partner Julie Cypher had conceived by artificial insemination.

Crosby's brother Ethan, who taught him to play guitar and started his musical career with him, committed suicide in late 1997 or early 1998. The date is unknown because Ethan left a note not to search for his body and let him return to the earth. His body was found months later in May 1998.

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