Hollies

The Hollies are an English rock group 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. Formed by Allan Clarke and Graham Nash in late 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 & Nash. They enjoyed considerable popularity in many countries (at least 60 singles or EPs and 26 albums charting somewhere in the world spanning over five decades), although they did not achieve major US chart success until 1966 with "Bus Stop". The Hollies had over 30 charting singles on the UK Singles Chart, and 22 on the Billboard Hot 100, with major hits on both sides of the Atlantic that included "Just One Look", "Look Through Any Window", "Bus Stop", "I Can't Let Go", "On a Carousel", "Stop Stop Stop", "Carrie Anne", "Jennifer Eccles", and later "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother", "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" and "The Air That I Breathe". They are one of the few British pop groups of the early 1960s that have never officially broken up and continue to record and perform. In recognition of their achievements, the Hollies were inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010.

Links To Peel
Peel was a big fan of the group in the 60's, but as the group progressed in their career, he played less of their later material, but enjoyed playing his favourote songs from them in later years. When the Hollies re-released their 1969 UK number one single "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" in late 1988, which reached number one in the UK Singles Chart that year, due to the popularity of the song used on a TV advert, he called it one of their worst songs on his 26 September 1988 show. To compensate that, he played one of his favourite tracks from them called "Look Through Any Window". The song later was voted by Peel as his Peelenium 1965 on his 28 October 1999 programme. On his show from 11 November 1999, Peel mentioned The Hollies' "The Air That I breathe" as one of his sing along in his car records:


 * "Whenever we make up a holiday tape or anything like that, ‘Without You’ is always on there, along with the Hollies’ ‘The Air That I Breathe.’ And one of these days a blood vessel is going to snap in me head and that’ll be it really when I’m singing along with it, but I do like having a go."

Peelenium

 * Peelenium 1965: Look Through Any Window

Other Shows Played
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1967 1973 1984 1985 1988 1997 1999 2002 2003 Others
 * Perfumed Garden (July/August): Stop Right There (LP - Evolution) Parlophone
 * 01 July 1967: Carrie Anne (single) Parlophone
 * 01 October 1967: King Midas In Reverse (single) Parlophone
 * 24 April 1973: Look Though Any Window (single, 1965) Parlophone
 * 17 May 1984: King Midas In Reverse
 * 12 August 1985: I’m Alive (single, 1965) EMI
 * 26 September 1988: Look Through Any Window (7": Look Through Any Window) (Parlophone)
 * 26 January 1997:  'Look Through Any Window'
 * 28 October 1999: 'Look Through Any Window (7")' (Parlophone) Peelenium 1965
 * 06 February 2002: 'I'm Alive' (E.M.I)
 * 27 May 2003: 'King Midas in Reverse (LP- Acid Daze)' (Uncut)
 * 05 January 1984 (TOTP): Sorry Suzanne (clip from 27/02/69)