Line #14 Music/TheHollies


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:The Hollies in the late '60s. Clockwise from left: Allan Clarke, [[Music/CrosbyStillsNashAndYoung Graham Nash]], Bernie Calvert, Tony Hicks, Bobby Elliot.]]
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4	->''"This is station management with an announcement. I wish to apologize for the disc jockey calling that song, which is, "A Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" by The Hollies, as "A Long Black Woman in a Cool Dress" and ask forgiveness of any of our listeners who were offended. In cooperation with our friends in the music industry, the disc jockey who made those remarks has been properly disciplined and won't be returning. For that reason, we recommend you do not eat any hamburger processed this week. We take music ''very'' seriously here. All the best music, KFVD, Los Angeles."''
5	-->--''Literature/InstrumentOfGod''
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7	The Hollies are an English rock and roll group, formed in [[UsefulNotes/FootballPopMusicAndFlatCaps Manchester]] in [[TheSixties 1962]]. Named after Music/BuddyHolly, they became known for their their distinctive vocal harmony style, courtesy of lead vocalist Allan Clarke, and guitarist/vocalists Graham Nash and Tony Hicks, with Terry Sylvester taking over Nash's end of the harmonies after the former left the band. The band are also well-known for their longevity, having formed over 50 years ago and never breaking up in that time. In fact, [[LongRunners they are still going to this day]] - albeit [[TheBandMinusTheFace without Allan Clarke]], who retired in 2000.
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9	Though the Hollies didn't quite achieve the same level of success as their contemporaries Music/TheBeatles and Music/{{The Rolling Stones\|Band}}, they had a wide variety of hit singles in their native England and enjoyed some success internationally. They had a few hits in the United States, but they are perhaps best known in that country for being the band that Graham Nash was in prior to Music/CrosbyStillsNashAndYoung. The Hollies were inducted into the UsefulNotes/RockAndRollHallOfFame in 2010.
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12	!!Principal Members (Founding members in '''bold''', current members in ''italic''):
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14	* Peter Arnesen - keyboard, synthesizer, vocals (1979–83)
15	* Paul Bliss - keyboard, synthesizer, vocals (1978–83, 1990–91)
16	* Bernie Calvert - bass, piano, keyboard (1966–81)
17	* Dave Carey - keyboard (1990)
18	* '''Allan Clarke''' - lead vocals, guitar, harmonica (1962–71, 1973–77, 1978–99)
19	* Alan Coates - guitar, vocals, banjo (1981–2004)
20	* ''Bobby Elliot'' - drums, percussion (1963–present)
21	* Denis Haines - keyboard (1983–90)
22	* '''Eric Haydock''' - bass (1962–66, 1981)
23	* ''Tony Hicks'' - guitar, backing and lead vocals, banjo, mandolin, bass, sitar, keyboard (1963–present)
24	* ''Peter Howarth'' - lead vocals, guitar (2004–present)
25	* ''Steve Lauri'' - guitar, vocals (2004–present)
26	* '''[[Music/CrosbyStillsNashAndYoung Graham Nash]]''' - guitar, backing and lead vocals (1962–68, 1981, 1982–84, 1993)
27	* ''Ian Parker'' - keyboard, woodwinds, vocals (1991–present)
28	* '''Don Rathbone''' - drums (1962–63)
29	* Mikael Rickfors - lead vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, harmonica, percussion (1971–73)
30	* '''Vic Steele''' - guitar (1962–63)
31	* ''Ray Stiles'' - bass, vocals (1986–90, 1991–present)
32	* Steve Stroud - bass (1981–86, 1990–91, 1996)
33	* Terry Sylvester - guitar, backing and lead vocals (1969–81)
34	* Carl Wayne - lead vocals (2000–04, died 2004)
35	* Pete Wingfield - keyboard, synthesizer (1974–77)
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38	!!Studio Discography:
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40	* 1964 - ''Stay With the Hollies''
41	* 1964 - ''The Hollies'' [[note]]EP[[/note]]
42	* 1964 - ''Just One Look'' [[note]]EP[[/note]]
43	* 1964 - ''Here I Go Again'' [[note]]EP[[/note]]
44	* 1964 - ''In the Hollies Style''
45	* 1964 - ''We're Through'' [[note]]EP[[/note]]
46	* 1965 - ''Hollies'' [[note]]Not to be confused with their 1974 album of the same name[[/note]]
47	* 1965 - ''I'm Alive'' [[note]]EP[[/note]]
48	* 1966 - ''I Can't Let Go'' [[note]]EP[[/note]]
49	* 1966 - ''Would You Believe?''
50	* 1966 - ''For Certain Because''
51	* 1967 - ''Evolution''
52	* 1967 - ''Butterfly''
53	* 1969 - ''Hollies Sing Dylan''
54	* 1969 - ''Hollies Sing Hollies''
55	* 1970 - ''Confessions of the Mind''
56	* 1971 - ''Distant Light''
57	* 1972 - ''Romany''
58	* 1973 - ''Out on the Road''
59	* 1974 - ''Hollies'' [[note]]Not to be confused with their 1965 album of the same name[[/note]]
60	* 1975 - ''Another Night''
61	* 1976 - ''Write On''
62	* 1976 - ''Russian Roulette''
63	* 1978 - ''A Crazy Steal''
64	* 1979 - ''5317704''
65	* 1980 - ''Buddy Holly''
66	* 1983 - ''What Goes Around''
67	* 2006 - ''Staying Power''
68	* 2009 - ''Then, Now, Always''
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71	!! Associated Tropes:
72	* AlbumTitleDrop: ''A Crazy Steal'' takes its title from a line in "Hello to Romance".
73	-->''Hello to romance, is it goodbye to those one night stands\
74	Where you get what you want, such a crazy steal''
75	* ArtisticLicenseShips: "Row the Boat Together" features a man from Tokyo who claims that he "used to handle a junk back home". Junks were Chinese, not Japanese.
76	* TheBandMinusTheFace: After lead singer Allan Clarke left the band in 1971, they hired an unknown Swedish singer named Mikael Rikfors to replace him. Rikfors was solid in the studio, but live shows were another matter. Rikfors completely lacked Clarke's charisma on stage, and his sound was so different from Clarke's that when the band tried to play their old hits, the results sounded strange and awkward. The albums recorded with Rikfors are highly regarded, but were commercial failures that sounded nothing like the trademark Hollies sound. The band eventually reunited with Clarke, and Rikfors was let go.
77	** Clarke retired in 1999 and was replaced by Carl Wayne, then finally Peter Howarth. They've recorded two albums with Howarth, which have largely been rejected by the fanbase for not sounding much like the Hollies.
78	* BornUnlucky: "King Midas in Reverse".
79	* CalculatorSpelling: As shown on the cover art, the title of ''5317704'' spells out [[SelfTitledAlbum "hOLLIES"]] if written on a calculator and turned upside down.
80	* CoverAlbum: ''Hollies Sing Dylan'', an album of Music/BobDylan covers, and ''Buddy Holly'', an album of Music/BuddyHolly covers. The group's first album, ''Stay with the Hollies'', contained 14 tracks, only one of which was an original composition.
81	* CoverVersion: Generally one or two per album. One notable case is that they gave Music/BruceSpringsteen his first chart hit as a songwriter, when their take on "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)"--which they just called "Sandy"--got to #85 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in the spring of 1975.
82	* CrossReferencedTitles: The band followed up their album ''Hollies Sing Dylan'', a Music/BobDylan cover album, with ''Hollies Sing Hollies'', an album containing entirely original compositions.
83	* DistractedByTheSexy: "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress". An FBI agent is about to signal a raid on a BadGuyBar but the eponymous woman catches his eye:
84	-->''With just one look, I was a bad mess\
85	'cause that long cool woman [[MsFanservice had it all]]''
86	** "Stop Stop Stop", which is about the band's infatuation with a girl seen at a strip club.
87	* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: "Very Last Day".
88	* GreatestHitsAlbum: Numerous ones. The Hollies were always regarded as mainly a singles act in the United States. Thus, most Hollies [=CDs=] that you'll find in American stores today are compilations of some sort.
89	* HilariousOuttakes: ''25th Anniversary Collection'' includes studio chatter at the beginning of a few songs. Before "Ain't That Just Like Me", Graham Nash playfully whispers "Bastard!" to Hollies producer Ron Richards (who was actually born out of wedlock, and was slightly touchy about it.) under his breath, and Richards retorts back "I heard that!" The intro to "Yes I Will" contains an exchange where Tony Hicks complains about a microphone stand being placed too low, to be told by Nash to "sit on a chair, then!"
90	* MarketBasedTitle: Most of their albums were retitled in their US editions with whatever their distributor felt was the most popular song on that album. The most blatant offender was ''Butterfly'', issued in the US as ''Dear Eloise/King Midas in Reverse''.
91	* MoodWhiplash: "Dear Eloise" alternates between a slow, melodious beginning and end and a rocked-up interlude between.
92	* NobodyLovesTheBassist: The bass tended to be mixed very low in the Hollies' recordings. According to producer Ron Richards, this was because he didn't consider Bernie Calvert a very good bass player. [[note]] Some of the band have suggested that it was Eric Haydock, the previous bassist, that tended to be muted in the mix, and actually Ron Richards considered Bernie to be a great improvement, but by this time the band's "sound" was settled, thus Bernie kept being buried in the mix, and Ron felt he had to make an excuse for why Bernie was mixed so low. Oddly, Bernie went along with this, and said very little on the subject. [[/note]]
93	* NonAppearingTitle: Songs where the title does not appear in the lyrics. At all.
94	** ''Confessions of the Mind'' alone contains three of them:
95	*** "Survival of the Fittest"
96	*** "Confessions of a Mind"
97	*** "Separated". "I Wanna Shout" is an example also, depending on which version you come across. Some pressings list the title as "We Wanna Shout", which is the actual sung phrase.
98	** "Crusader"
99	** "Lullaby to Tim"
100	** "Ye Olde Toffee Shoppe"
101	** "Postcard"
102	** "Elevated Observations"
103	** "Soldier's Dilemma"
104	** "Marigold Gloria Swansong"
105	** "Lizzie and the Rainman"
106	** "Rubber Lucy"
107	** "The Day That Curly Billy Shot Down Crazy Sam [=McGee=]"
108	** "Mexico Gold"
109	** "Hello Lady Goodbye"
110	** "Soldier's Song"
111	* NotStayingForBreakfast: Happens to the singer in "Hello Lady Goodbye" when a long-term girlfriend breaks up with him this way, even going so far as to clean her clothes out of the closet and taking ''her favourite chair'' with her. The guy tries to get over it by having a one night stand with a woman he meets in a bar, then realizes he's found love again when the woman he took home with him last night is still there in the morning.
112	* RecordProducer: Ron Richards falls into the George Martin category, producing almost all of their records from 1963 to 1979.
113	* SelfTitledAlbum: They had two separate albums called ''Hollies'', released in 1965 and 1974. The latter is often referred to as ''Hollies '74'' to avoid confusion. The 1979 album ''5317704'' also counts, since [[CalculatorSpelling in 7-segment font this spells "hOLLIES" upside-down]]; the album art reflects this.
114	* SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein: It takes several listens to decipher all the lyrics to "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress".
115	* StatuesqueStunner: "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress"
116	* StepUpToTheMicrophone: During Graham Nash's days in the band, he usually sang a few songs on each album. Other band members would also get the occasional lead vocal. Terry Sylvester usually sang one or two songs per album, and Tony Hicks sang lead vocals on "Pegasus", "Look at Life", and "Born a Man", as well as co-lead vocals on "Carrie Anne".
117	* UmbrellaOfTogetherness: "Bus Stop". The people in love from this song continue to share an umbrella even on sunny days, leading others to stare "as if we were both quite insane".
118	-->Bus stop, wet day, she's there, I say\
119	Please share my umbrella\
120	Bus stop, bus goes, she stays, love grows\
121	Under my umbrella
122	* VocalTagTeam:
123	** In the early days, Allan Clarke and Graham Nash would sometimes trade off lead vocals. For examples within a single song, "Carrie Anne" and "Open Up Your Eyes" feature Nash, Tony Hicks, and Clarke each singing different parts of the song.
124	** "Slow Down, Go Down" features Mikael Rickfors singing the chorus and Terry Sylvester singing the verses.

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