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The Hollies
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23 Events- Sep 19Sep19Sun 19:00Aberdeen Music Hall - AberdeenThe Road is Long - An Evening with The HolliesFind ticketsAberdeen Music Hall - AberdeenThe Road is Long - An Evening with The HolliesSep 19 19:00Find tickets
- Sep 20Sep20Find ticketsMon 19:00Glasgow Royal Concert Hall - GlasgowThe Road is Long - An Evening with The Hollies
- Sep 21Sep21Find ticketsTue 18:30O2 City Hall, Newcastle - Newcastle Upon TyneThe Road Is Long: an Evening with the Hollies
- Sep 24Sep24Find ticketsFri 19:45Sheffield City Hall Oval Hall - SheffieldThe Road Is Long: an Evening with the Hollies
- Sep 26Sep26Find ticketsSun 19:00Symphony Hall - BirminghamThe Road Is Long: an Evening with the Hollies
- Sep 27Sep27Find ticketsMon 19:00Cambridge Corn Exchange - CambridgeThe Road is Long - An Evening with The Hollies
- Sep 29Sep29Wed 19:00Venue Cymru Theatre - LlandudnoThe Road Is Long: an Evening with the HolliesFind ticketsVenue Cymru Theatre - LlandudnoThe Road Is Long: an Evening with the HolliesSep 29 19:00Find tickets
- Oct 02Oct02Find ticketsSat 18:30The Brighton Centre - BrightonThe Road Is Long: an Evening with the Hollies
- Oct 03Oct03Find ticketsSun 19:00The Lowry - Salford QuaysThe Road Is Long: an Evening with the Hollies
- Oct 04Oct04Find ticketsMon 19:45Scarborough Spa Grand Hall - ScarboroughThe Road Is Long: an Evening with the Hollies
- Oct 06Oct06Wed 19:00Regent Theatre - Stoke-On-TrentThe Road Is Long: an Evening with the HolliesFind ticketsRegent Theatre - Stoke-On-TrentThe Road Is Long: an Evening with the HolliesOct 06 19:00Find tickets
- Oct 07Oct07Find ticketsThu 19:00Southend Cliffs Pavilion - Southend-On-SeaThe Road is Long - An Evening with The Hollies
- Oct 08Oct08Find ticketsFri 19:00De Montfort Hall - LeicesterThe Road is Long - An Evening with The Hollies
- Oct 10Oct10Find ticketsSun 19:00Hexagon Theatre - ReadingThe Road is Long - An Evening with The Hollies
- Oct 12Oct12Find ticketsTue 19:00The London Palladium - LondonThe Road Is Long: an Evening with the Hollies
- Oct 13Oct13Find ticketsWed 19:00The London Palladium - LondonThe Road is Long - An Evening with The Hollies
- Oct 14Oct14Find ticketsThu 19:00G Live Guildford - GuildfordThe Road Is Long: an Evening with the Hollies
About
Original British Invasion hitmakers behind He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother and The Air That I Breathe
The Hollies were one of the biggest movers in the British Invasion of the early ’60s, alongside the likes of Herman’s Hermits, The Yardbirds, The Animals and a relatively minor Liverpool quartet called The Beatles.
The band was formed in Salford by childhood friends Allan Clarke and Graham Nash (latterly of CSNY fame) and bassist Eric Haydock. A bit of shuffling of members eventually led to the addition of Tony Hicks on guitar and Bobby Elliot on drums. The Hollies displayed a knack for chiming melodies and three-part harmonies, which sent the band down a poppier route than their more R&B-influenced peers in The Rolling Stones and The Spencer Davis Group.
The Hollies had an almost immediate impact in the UK, delivering an unstoppable run of hits from Here I Go Again and I’m Alive, the latter their first No.1 single. It took slightly longer to crack the US, which the band finally did in 1966 with the singles Look Through Any Window and Bus Stop, both written by Graham Gouldman.
The band’s remarkable run through the mid-to-late ’60s came to an end when Nash left the band to form Crosby, Stills and Nash with David Crosby and Stephen Stills. Nash was replaced by Terry Sylvester and the band went on to score one of their biggest hits, He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother, in 1969, featuring Elton John on piano.
The ’70s proved a tricky decade for the band, stuck between their legacy and attempts to embrace the newer sounds of disco fever. Clarke left the band early in the decade only to return shortly afterwards, just in time for another huge hit in the shape of The Air That I Breathe.
Nash returned to the band in 1983 for What Goes Around… but the band’s heyday appeared to be firmly behind them. Clarke left again in the early ’90s, this time replaced by Carl Wayne, up until Wayne’s death in 2004. Hicks and Elliott regrouped with a new line-up shortly afterwards and released the band’s first album in 23 years, the well-received Staying Power. The band bagged a spot in the Rock N’ Roll Hall Of Fame in 2010 and the three-disc collection 50 At Fifty followed in 2014, featuring the new song Skylarks.
In late 2020, The Hollies announced a huge 2021 UK tour, starting in Aberdeen and winding up in Ipswich, taking in two nights at the London Palladium along the way.