What Happened to The Hollies?

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[@tommykirwan6764]

To hell with critics. I've enjoyed the Hollies music for 50yrs. Allen Clarke's vocals on "The Air that I Breathe" & "He Ain't Heavy" are filled with feeling, emotion, and Talent. I also believe that Tony Hicks never got the respect he deserved for his great guitar work. The Hollies music will always be legendary for me.

[@SirBelvedere333]

Absolutely “F” the critics, when they say it’s bad you know it’s great.

[@dennisdanby-pk7vg]

Half of them became Crosby Stills Nash &Young

[@rmp7400]

​@dennis danby Graham Nash did, yes.

[@dennisdanby-pk7vg]

@@rmp7400 and stephen stills

[@davidcrowe8588]

Same here bro.

[@stevegribble8461]

Alan had the greatest lead voices ever, and when you add those harmonys wow..always my favourite band

[@wayne1074]

The Hollies. One of the greatest bands of the 60's and 70's that continued their success throughout their long career.

[@tomsmith2013]

Thank you for saying "one". That makes your comment legit.

[@markramlucken8502]

My favorite band. Thank you hollies

[@markramlucken8502]

I don't care about the rest Hollies are the best rock group in the world.

[@LordFlashheart.11]

Amazing band, amazing lead singer, amazing drummer, amazing lead guitarist. Fantastic live band and they were better than nearly all bands around in the 60s live! Above all...timeless amazing music!!

[@hubertmantz1516]

Saw them live twice and I’m sure glad i did! What a truly amazing band they were!😮 I’ll never forget those concerts!! 😊

[@iworby8030]

We are talking about them today, shows the talent of the Hollies. The songs were part of our lives.

[@willgratton2151]

Only the hollies and the stones that have never stopped playing , the hollies harmonies fabulous such a underrated band

[@rogerspice7743]

I Can't Let Go and Look Through any Window we're part of some of the great songs the Hollies played live. I always thought of them as a great band that had their act together. The harmonic balance and unique style was captivating.

[@alexandergordon9133]

Alan Clarke has one of the most distinctive voices in rock music.

[@rmp7400]

Alan Clarke just released a new album (April, 2023, or thereabouts). Always the humble gentleman, he had no fanfare about its release. I think he even partnered with Graham Nash for it! The video notes they were "no competition with the Rolling Stones for r n b covers"...duh! Because their heroes were: THE EVERLY BROTHERS!!! They aimed for a British Everly Brothers sound... (Nothing Raunchy...There! I said it!)

[@alexandergordon9133]

@@rmp7400 Thanks for that piece of information, I'll check it out.

[@seancurran6727]

Not just that, after being swamped by the British Invasion, the Everlies came to England and teamed up with the Hollies for the album Two Yanks In England, featuring some of the original songs the Hollies wrote.@@rmp7400

[@JD-eq4dp]

Sometimes found his vocals very nasaly and quite sharp on the ears..

[@josephfisher9427]

Love The Hollies here are my Top 10 Hollies songs 10 - Hey Willy 09 - What's Wrong With the Way I Live 08 - After the Fox 07 - He Ain't Heavy.... He's My Brother 06 - Listen to Me 05 - I'm Alive 04 - Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress 03 - Bus Stop 02 - I Can't Let Go 01 - Stop Stop Stop Mentions: Stay, Just One Look, Look Through Any Window, On a Carousel, Here I Go Again, Carrie Anne, King Midas in Reverse, Jennifer Eccles, Sorry Suzanne, I Can't Tell the Bottom From the Top, Gasoline Alley Bred, The Air That I Breathe, Sandy (4th of July, Asbury Park) also can do an episode on The Swinging Blue Jeans

[@deboraheubank9430]

This band was beyond awesome!! Thank you for sharing this video!!!

[@whathappenedtothem_]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@derekstocker6661]

Great harmonies and fabulous melodies, the lyrics were also very fitting to the time and the melody. Loved the Hollies and I can recall liking everything that they did at the time. Thanks for this, excellent story of a fantastic band.

[@whathappenedtothem_]

Thanks for listening

[@muffassa6739]

One my favorite groups ❤ I still have all of my records.

[@user-cq7bv7up3o]

Saw the Hollies at Southend a couple of weeks ago. A fantastic show. Bobby Elliott - superb drumming. Tony Hicks - wonderful guitar work. (He looks so young - whatever he's taking I want some!) Ray Stiles showed everyone how to really play bass. Fantastic harmonies, fantastic performance. Thanks for keeping the music alive.

[@Our__Earth]

The air that I breathe is one of the best songs ever.

[@huntresses]

Yes!!!

[@BMW7series251]

I was a 60's teenager. Loved the Hollies. They were known as the ''groups group''. No one beat them!!

[@Mark-ew1hn]

The Hollies were a prolific hit machine in the 1960’s …..but also one of the most underrated groups ever

[@Mark-ew1hn]

One fact the guy telling the story did get wrong was The Air That I Breath got to number 2 in the U.K. charts and not number 6

[@healthyone100]

they had more hits than the beatles love the Hollies!

[@user-yt2xc2bf4t]

Play the air that I breathe.

[@jorgefernandez-mv8hu]

The heck with critics. I have always enjoyed their music and so did many others.

[@rodneybrand8521]

I'd say the hollies were greatly underrated..

[@brucegibbins3792]

I would say the Hollies are highly rated and their music widely popular, enjoyed and respected by their peers and fans all around the world. So how does that translate into being, "under rated"?

[@alanhaynes4576]

Well I saw them live in about 2018 in Australia and they are still touring. They just change the line up as needed. Tony Hicks was still in the band. They sounded just like I remembered from the 60's. In Australia we were fortunate to get a lot of British artists played on radio so we were already fully aware of them and their music is still as popular today as always. Not bad when you think of all the other groups that have come and gone but the Hollies just keep on.

[@dhickman4570]

It's funny at 72 still walk around singing their songs, my #1 Air that I breathe.

[@alanhaynes4576]

@@dhickman4570 I really like "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"

[@barney2700]

Great outfit, great songs, so lucky to have grown up and lived this music

[@davidlee6720]

No disrespect to other members but Alan could have led any collection of musicians and it would still have been the Hollies.

[@kitfrew9983]

Like Freddie Mercury from Queen

[@stupeters8409]

Tony Hicks ran the group

[@Marcel_Audubon]

not without Tony Hicks

[@simonwright9735]

Certainly one of the finest front men of the 60s.

[@Giofelippi]

I love The Hollies, they are one of my absolutely favorites bands from the 60s. Although they were very great musicians and songwriters, I think their major problem was that they were not as innovative like other bands from the same period. So when the 60s ended and the musical movement they were originally part ended too, they started to decline. Still they manage to make a few great hits in the 70s. Long live to The Hollies

[@donaldmac1250]

in thier time they were as good as anyone...air that i breathe has to be one of the greatest pop songs.

[@robinrubendunst869]

Power ballad..

[@pettytoni1955]

I learned harmony singing listening to the Hollies and Simon & Garfunkel.

[@eddiebell5181]

Anyone wondering... The Hollies are still touring and still performing, I have tickets to see them in just over two weeks time at The Sage in Gateshead , this will be the third time I've been there to see them in the last few years. In addition about 5 days from now Nash is performing solo at the same venue with what seems to be part talking and part music telling the story of his life.

[@papierdolls]

One of the few bands where all of the members from the '60's are still alive - Allan Clarke, Graham Nash (or Terry Sylvester), Bernie Calvert, Tony Hicks, and Bobby Elliot.

[@jamesoneill5070]

I bet that would be a big surprise to Eric Haydock.

[@Krzyszczynski]

Only other one I can think of in that category is Manfred Mann.

[@SpideyVids]

Sorry to tell you this but Allan died years ago.

[@Krzyszczynski]

@@SpideyVids Your source for that?

[@SpideyVids]

@@Krzyszczynski I was a session musician/singer and worked with the Hollies in the mid 1980s - the record producer passed the news on to me.

[@michaeljones1475]

And still performing today, Hicks and Elliot being the only original members.

[@Krzyszczynski]

Uh-uh - Bobby Elliott was not the original drummer. That was Don Rathbone.

[@patrickblau558]

Finally, The Band with that i grew most up

[@myrasmith1603]

Wonderful group .

[@colinpurssey9875]

I loved the honesty and conviction in the singing of lead vocalist Allen Clarke , expressed both vocally and visually .

[@markjamesmeli2520]

At the root of it all, the Hollies IS Allan Clarke's and Graham Nash's group. It ALL started with them. What "happened" to the group was...time. Eventually, Bernie Calvert and Terry Sylvester left the group, being replaced by a rotation of musicians...many of them quite good. Graham Nash returned in 1983, and upon his leaving again, he was replaced by Alan Coates, a brilliant musician and very capable singer. By 2001, Clarke stepped down as lead vocalist. He was replaced by Carl Wayne, formerly of The Move, an embryonic version of what would become the Electric Light Orchestra. When Carl Wayne died, Alan Coates eventually left too, after almost 21 years with the group. Both were replaced by new faces that could hit the notes, but little else. Their last two studio albums were faceless, generic outings...at best. They've since put recording new material behind them, concentrating on the live act which keeps European concert attendees happy.

[@docheine]

Had no idea that Graham Nash was in the Hollies. Learn something new every day.

[@Bruce15485]

Yes: Alan Clarke and Graham Nash grew up together from when they were little children !

[@nathonhamilton4524]

What a great band THE HOLLIES were.......

[@robertbruce1887]

Glad for the reminder of how great , this band has been & hopefully in future can still be.

[@jameswhitman1850]

Work with facts, Their Biggest Hits came after Graham Nash left. Give the trio of Clarke/ Hicks/Sylvester their due. You can't find Harmony like that anymore. He Ain't Heavy and The Air That I Breathe are Classics. Fact not opinionated.

[@abhishreeverma7592]

I Love just one look from The Hollies

[@mikec3777]

Saw the original lineup with Graham Nash back in the 60s then a later incarnation although still with Alan Clarke. A great band with some inventive lead playing by Tony Hicks.

[@daldieduckweather5320]

'He Ain't Heavy' was a mountain of a recording! Right up there with 'What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted' by Jimmy Ruffin.

[@colinbaker3916]

I believe that’s Terry Sylvester at 1:37, not Eric Haydock nor Bernie Calvert.

[@GlennShepMusic]

It was Bobby Elliot, not Don Rathbone, who had played in the Dolphins along with Tony Hicks and future Hollies bassist, Bernie Calvert.

[@gregggoldstein3449]

Seems like Long Cool Woman keeps resurfacing in short videos on tik tok. Although I never had a keen intrest in bands this band’s hits are memerable in the 70’s when i was attending High School and our Art teachers had an FM radio playing in the back ground and Cool Woman in a black dress would play, radically nostalgic sound that stuck with me like old peanut butter that get stuck to the roof inside my mouth. Although i could never quite articulatr the words being sung till recently when I read and followed along some one’s contribution on You Tube. Anyway thank you for sharing details of the Hollies.

[@Josie2013]

The photo at 1:34 is Terry Sylvester not Eric Haydock. I'm confused about the picture at 3:33. Definitely not the Hollies.

[@whathappenedtothem_]

The picture at 3:33 was the Swinging Blue Jeans. I had mentioned them a few seconds before.

[@shambeez]

Saw them in 1995, Durban City Hall, South Africa. They were simply awesome. Great memories

[@Gynra]

I hope to see them again in September (2023) when they come to Cheltenham. Fabulous group!

[@Agnethatheredhairkid]

Absolutely ADORE the Hollies. 'The Air That I Breathe' was a British chart #2, not #6, as stated.

[@jameswhitman1850]

It was a #6 singles chart hit on the Billboard Magazine Top 100 Singles in the United States In 1974. Work with facts.

[@Agnethatheredhairkid]

@@jameswhitman1850 Fair enough, James, but why is practically everything on here so America centred.

[@jameswhitman1850]

Respect Your Reply Back. I've played Piano 🎹 for the past 40 years and am now retired due to Parkinson's and love British Music ie Hollies so I understand what you say about the different Countries.

[@Agnethatheredhairkid]

@@jameswhitman1850 Thank you, James. Take care and Happy New Year.

[@jameswhitman1850]

Same To You My Friend 😌

[@PhilipJohnson-cv5qo]

I loved there songs. Me and my band friends also and we played a number of them and were popular. ❤👍

[@colinbaker3916]

You didn’t mention the reissue of He Ain’t Heavy He’s My Brother reaching number 1 in the UK in 1988.

[@bradfordduarte1269]

The Hollies was a great band in the 60s & 70s!

[@alpha-omega2362]

there were a lot of girls named Carrie Anne who were born in the mid sixties...if anything, I believe that is one of The Hollie's great legacies....having a generation of girls named after your song..

[@robertbruce1887]

alpha-omega2362: including Canadian actress Carrie-Ann Moss, who admitted that that was what inspired her parent's choice of her name.

[@blondeshea12]

I think great group incredible really they stood the test of time and what a voice wow .

[@jenniferwells9032]

Allen looked so much older than the boys on guitar ❤️

[@simonwright9735]

Never have they joined the 60s explosion tours. They have always toured on their own and still continue to do so today. Which tells you they are still relevant and have a Big fan basis.

[@BillsAllotmentDiary]

The drummers son used to play drums with a group called Bushfinder General playing regularly at the Mayflower club in Liverpool in the 80's. Had Bushfinder General stayed together they would have been a force to be reconed with. I remember spending time with the group as they laid down their first and only demo tape my oldest brother used to do the sound and lighting for them and I actually had a small part on one of their songs which was a clapping solo. The best song they did in my opinion was called All or nothing. Anyway jut a short bit of info.

[@mikeowen1192]

I saw the hollies on a package tour at Manchester odeon wait for this with small faces and Roy Orbison on the same bill they where all great for me especially small faces I also think the hollies version of Springsteen's sandy is one of there best even better than the bosses great days

[@griswald7156]

I always think of Tony Hicks when i think of the Hollies….hes so Iconic..

[@andicampbell8621]

Loved them in the 60s. In the end, Alan was looking like Harold Steptoe 🤣

[@jenniferwells9032]

I ❤️ their songs ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@nickwebb9290]

This channel is really interesting, I subscribed a while ago and you cover a good cross section of artists 👏 Commentary is a bit out….”Eric Haydock was replace by Bernie Calvert” and a photo of Terry Sylvester appears 🙄

[@lestorhaslam]

A great group.

[@patbrett3031]

Air that I breath was awesome

[@neridarobinson5665]

Timeless music. Still listening in 2014.

[@neridarobinson5665]

And still listening in 2024.

[@user-yt2xc2bf4t]

Great band, alan, great singer.

[@garywalden4009]

You pronounced "Midas" wrong...it is pronounced "my-dus", not the way you say it. "King Midas In Reverse" is one of their best.

[@pattiboyes686]

If you had to name the 10 most beautiful songs of all time - two would be from The Hollies. The Air That I Breathe and He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother.

[@keithlittle6548]

Great short documentary on the The hollies

[@Colin56ish]

Without Nash they just weren't as good. Long Cool Woman was my favorite back in the day. I thought at the time, this had taken them to a new level, as good as anyone else was doing!

[@lucasoheyze4597]

That was after Nash had left.

[@ceedoubleyou]

no mention of, "Too Young to be Married"., written and sang by Tony Hicks, 1971?

[@frontendloader1000]

I was around 17 living in South Africa when they really hit the music scene. I was then dating someone who would later be my wife. Amazing group with a distinctive sound.

[@johnpreston7231]

Absolutely the best in there day, yes i know the Beatles and Stones were another level, but for me i could relate to them more, i am 79 now and went to see them at Cliffs pavilion in Southend last year, it was fantastic the place was rammed, ok all silver tops were there, but we all remember how good they were, unfortunately only Tony and Bobby left but they still had that fantastic sound

[@whathappenedtothem_]

Absolutely!

[@lauraanderson2429]

I listened to the radio when I was pregnant not knowing what to name my daughter if I had a daughter. I struggled with a name and couldn’t think of any I liked, then the song Carrie Anne came on. I instantly said That’s her name! Indeed I had a daughter and named her CariAnn.

[@cabbepe]

I'm just now reading Bobby Elliott's book, which is crammed with history. A real page turner.

[@jamesrae7597]

He ain't heavy is a great song. Hollies string of hits is as good as any one.

[@rosaliecooper3707]

Love the Hollie’s still play all their great songs. 1. Stand by me 2. Daddy don’t mind 3. Out on the run 4. Sandy 5. Curly Billy and Sam Magee 6. Magic woman Lots more great songs from the greatest band ever, better than the Beatles . The gorgeous talented Tony Hicks ,the handsome Allan Clarke withe greatest voice ever. Terry Sylvester was also handsome with a great voice .Love my Hollie’s forever ❤

[@jamiesharp8758]

They still playing live now went see them last year what a night that was

[@michaelgreenfield9090]

Sorry, you are completely mistaken. Allan Clarke was a schoolmate of Graham Nash and after having written many great hits with The Hollies he started Crosby Stills NASH in 1967/68. Please do your homework first.🎸

[@whathappenedtothem_]

Thanks for the info!

[@johnpreston7231]

Absolutely right, they were school mate and when Graham went to the states he met up with Crosby & Stills and they started the band together, for me I wish he had stayed with the Hollies

[@alanstrom2221]

THE VOICE OVER GUY MAKES IT SOUND AS IF THE HOLLIES WEREN'T SUCCESSFUL or POPULAR. THERE IS A VERY NEGATIVE TONE TO HIS VOICE. MUSIC FANS and HISTORIANS WILL KNOW THAT THE HOLLIES WERE and ARE ONE OF THE BIGGEST and MOST POPULAR BANDS in HISTORY.

[@fcamsterdam8941]

Some songs in the seventies where hits but only in the Netherlands like I'm down, the day that curly Billy shot down Crazy Sam McGee, man without a heart and the obscure song The Baby. All great songs ( about 1972- 1975) They are all on the CD the Dutch Collection ( with DVD )

[@frankalbrecht4975]

So great....until today live on stage....thank you....

[@whathappenedtothem_]

Rock on!

[@davidjessee7701]

Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress- is the best sounding song on a junk stereo!!!

[@edwinthompson6510]

i was a committee member to a social club my job was to book bands for Saturday night entertainment the Hollies were regular,,,, Searchers,,, i remember helping carry in there equipment from a battered old van ,, i then locked up the club ,, they went off into town to get something to eat yeah we had all the top bands long before they were famous ,,,,,,Edwin John

[@markoakley8738]

Truly brilliant band.

[@jamesborthwick1631]

concert in Aramco compound Rastanura Saudi Arabia in the eighties was fantastic Ex pats went wild

[@johngore7744]

They named themselves The Hollies because of Buddy Holly. True.

[@sheilawheat8783]

What year did this song come out

[@darylhoskins5696]

Look up the live making of (on an Carousel) just Awsome!

[@whathappenedtothem_]

I'll check it out!

[@darylhoskins5696]

@@whathappenedtothem_ It’s in the Recording studio ,Showing How they Harmonize ,Awsome!

[@davonteguerrero1645]

Autograph... no way... my top 20 greatest bands ...

[@dits791]

Too young to be Married went to no 1 in Australia and New Zealand.. great song but for some reason didn't do much anywhere else and no mention of that song here.

[@nickayling9531]

Better than the Beatles.

[@thomasmay69]

I assume that you're a troll, yikes

[@malcolml309]

The Hollies were good. However, they did lack the depth of the Beatles (no insult; no one did), nor did they demonstrate the capacity for artistic growth.

[@mattskustomkreations]

2:32 King Middus??? Who the hell is that? Try King Midas. It’s a long “i”. Sheesh

[@HungryH1951]

Once I heard that pronunciation I just stopped listening. I mean what could the narrator possibly know.

[@Krzyszczynski]

@@HungryH1951 Crikey Dick, he must surely have heard the correct pronunciation when listening to the song!!

[@KRW628]

I saw the Hollies in '66...opening act for Herman's Hermits. The Hollies were going to tour America three years ago. Then...Covid cancelled everything.

[@shauntrailskinner9645]

I love The Hollies too. Their British sound did change as the 1970s approach. In fact, the band sounded a little more "American" than British,vin and the 1970s. This is just my observation. Tony, an old school guy 62-year-old Black US AIR FORCE VET✈️🇺🇲

[@renevanleersum]

Yeah nice story telling but where is their music in this docu ?

[@jonbutcher9805]

Holy crap dude. you made it sound like they're a failed band.

[@thesledge1969]

Love the Hollies music growing up in the early 60’s and 70’s . The 60’s and 70’s had the best music

[@normallen3457]

The picture you show that's supposed to be Bernie Calvert is Terry Sylvester.

[@andrewbrennan7291]

Nothing happened. They've thrilled millions over so many decades, and continue to do just that.

[@HarborLockRoad]

I still love jennifer eccles... 😁👍

[@whathappenedtothem_]

Me too!

[@barackmycat9448]

Everyone I knew liked them.

[@colinleach1448]

The Hollies, in their current guise, are still touring. I've got tickets to see them in Sept 23. Americans will pretend to, but will never, ever understand 60's Brit Pop. They just see Austin Powers.

[@Hallands.]

So what happened to the Hollies? I didn’t come for the entire history …