Graham Nash
Graham William Nash (OBE) (born 2 February 1942) is an English singer-songwriter… Read Full Bio ↴Graham William Nash (OBE) (born 2 February 1942) is an English singer-songwriter known primarily for his light tenor vocals and songwriting contributions in pop group The Hollies and folk-rock bands Crosby, Stills & Nash and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. He also formed a duo with David Crosby, Crosby & Nash.
Nash was born in Blackpool, England, during World War II. His mother was evacuated from the Nashes' hometown of Salford (now in Greater Manchester ), where Graham grew up. In the early 1960s he was a leading member of The Hollies, one of the UK's most successful pop groups ever. Although recognised as a key member of the group, he seldom sang lead vocals, although he did write many of the band's songs, most often in collaboration with Allan Clarke. Best known in the US for their 1965 hit "Bus Stop", the Hollies also scored with "Look Through Any Window" in 1965, "Stop, Stop, Stop" in 1966, "Carrianne", and "On a Carousel " in 1967, among others. Nash was pivotal in the forging of a sound and lyrics showing an obvious hippie influence on The Hollies' album Butterfly, a collection that brought differing opinions on the band's musical direction to the fore.
In 1968, after a visit to the US during which he met David Crosby in Laurel Canyon and began recreational drug use, Nash left The Hollies at the height of their fame to form a new group with Crosby and Stephen Stills. A threesome at first, Crosby, Stills & Nash later became a foursome with Neil Young: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY). With them, Nash went on to even greater worldwide success. Nash, nicknamed "Willy" by his band mates in CSNY, has been described as the glue that keeps their often fragile alliances together. A mark of this is the loyalty and support Nash showed to his best friend, Crosby, during Crosby's well-documented period of drug addiction ending in the mid 1980s. Nash's solo career has often been shelved in favour of reunions on stage and in the studio with either Crosby and Stills or Crosby, Stills and Young. His own solo work shows a love of melody and ballads. His solo recordings have experimented with jazz and electronic percussion but tend not to stray too far from a pop format with well-defined hook lines.
Nash became very politically active after moving to California to join with David Crosby and Stephen Stills, as reflected such in Nash songs as "Military Madness" and "Chicago (We Can Change the World)". His song "Immigration Man", Crosby and Nash's biggest hit as a duo (see below), arose from a tiff he had with a US Customs official while trying to enter the country. Nash became an American citizen on August 14, 1978.
Starting in 1972, Nash teamed with Crosby, the two continuing as a successful recording and performing duo until the more or less permanent reformation with Stills for the CSN album of 1977. The pair reunited for another Crosby & Nash studio album in 2004, and a legitimate release of music from a 1970s Crosby-Nash tour as on a widely circulated bootleg appeared in 1998.
In 1979, Nash co-founded Musicians United for Safe Energy.
In 2005, Nash collaborated with Norwegian musicians a-ha on the songs "Over the Treetops" (penned by Paul Waaktaar-Savoy) and "Cosy Prisons" (penned by Magne Furuholmen) for the Analogue recording.
In 2006, Nash worked with David Gilmour and David Crosby on the title track of David Gilmour's third solo album, On an Island. In March of 2006, the album was released and quickly reached #1 on the UK charts. Nash and Crosby subsequently toured the UK with Gilmour, singing backup on "On an Island", "The Blue", "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", and "Find the Cost of Freedom".
Nash is part of the No Nukes group which is against the expansion of nuclear power. In 2007 the group recorded a music video of a new version of the Buffalo Springfield song "For What It's Worth".
Graham Nash has been putting the finishing touches on a 65-song career-retrospective box set, Reflection, due in February 2008.
Nash became an early collector of photographs beginning in the 1970s. The sale of his collection in 1990 by Sotheby's became an important milestone in establishing the market for fine-art photography. Proceeds of the sale funded charitable causes and provide the means for Nash to co-found Nash Editions, a digital fine-arts printmaking firm that used some of the most advanced scanning and printing equipment in early days. The company continues to operate today. Starting with an IRIS printer, a device initially designed for color-proofing for commercial printing, Nash experimented in the late 1980s with creating large-scale digital photos. Using image management software written by Nash and Holbert, a hand-built scanner, and an IRIS Graphics IRIS 3047 printer, they developed methods to adapt the printer's output to the fine-arts printing of black-and-white photographs on archival-paper substrates. In August 2005, Nash and colleague Mac Holbert donated that IRIS 3047 printer to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
Nash has also exhibited a collection of his photographs at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego and elsewhere. In 2004, he released a catalog of his photography as a book entitled Eye to Eye.
Nash was born in Blackpool, England, during World War II. His mother was evacuated from the Nashes' hometown of Salford (now in Greater Manchester ), where Graham grew up. In the early 1960s he was a leading member of The Hollies, one of the UK's most successful pop groups ever. Although recognised as a key member of the group, he seldom sang lead vocals, although he did write many of the band's songs, most often in collaboration with Allan Clarke. Best known in the US for their 1965 hit "Bus Stop", the Hollies also scored with "Look Through Any Window" in 1965, "Stop, Stop, Stop" in 1966, "Carrianne", and "On a Carousel " in 1967, among others. Nash was pivotal in the forging of a sound and lyrics showing an obvious hippie influence on The Hollies' album Butterfly, a collection that brought differing opinions on the band's musical direction to the fore.
In 1968, after a visit to the US during which he met David Crosby in Laurel Canyon and began recreational drug use, Nash left The Hollies at the height of their fame to form a new group with Crosby and Stephen Stills. A threesome at first, Crosby, Stills & Nash later became a foursome with Neil Young: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY). With them, Nash went on to even greater worldwide success. Nash, nicknamed "Willy" by his band mates in CSNY, has been described as the glue that keeps their often fragile alliances together. A mark of this is the loyalty and support Nash showed to his best friend, Crosby, during Crosby's well-documented period of drug addiction ending in the mid 1980s. Nash's solo career has often been shelved in favour of reunions on stage and in the studio with either Crosby and Stills or Crosby, Stills and Young. His own solo work shows a love of melody and ballads. His solo recordings have experimented with jazz and electronic percussion but tend not to stray too far from a pop format with well-defined hook lines.
Nash became very politically active after moving to California to join with David Crosby and Stephen Stills, as reflected such in Nash songs as "Military Madness" and "Chicago (We Can Change the World)". His song "Immigration Man", Crosby and Nash's biggest hit as a duo (see below), arose from a tiff he had with a US Customs official while trying to enter the country. Nash became an American citizen on August 14, 1978.
Starting in 1972, Nash teamed with Crosby, the two continuing as a successful recording and performing duo until the more or less permanent reformation with Stills for the CSN album of 1977. The pair reunited for another Crosby & Nash studio album in 2004, and a legitimate release of music from a 1970s Crosby-Nash tour as on a widely circulated bootleg appeared in 1998.
In 1979, Nash co-founded Musicians United for Safe Energy.
In 2005, Nash collaborated with Norwegian musicians a-ha on the songs "Over the Treetops" (penned by Paul Waaktaar-Savoy) and "Cosy Prisons" (penned by Magne Furuholmen) for the Analogue recording.
In 2006, Nash worked with David Gilmour and David Crosby on the title track of David Gilmour's third solo album, On an Island. In March of 2006, the album was released and quickly reached #1 on the UK charts. Nash and Crosby subsequently toured the UK with Gilmour, singing backup on "On an Island", "The Blue", "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", and "Find the Cost of Freedom".
Nash is part of the No Nukes group which is against the expansion of nuclear power. In 2007 the group recorded a music video of a new version of the Buffalo Springfield song "For What It's Worth".
Graham Nash has been putting the finishing touches on a 65-song career-retrospective box set, Reflection, due in February 2008.
Nash became an early collector of photographs beginning in the 1970s. The sale of his collection in 1990 by Sotheby's became an important milestone in establishing the market for fine-art photography. Proceeds of the sale funded charitable causes and provide the means for Nash to co-found Nash Editions, a digital fine-arts printmaking firm that used some of the most advanced scanning and printing equipment in early days. The company continues to operate today. Starting with an IRIS printer, a device initially designed for color-proofing for commercial printing, Nash experimented in the late 1980s with creating large-scale digital photos. Using image management software written by Nash and Holbert, a hand-built scanner, and an IRIS Graphics IRIS 3047 printer, they developed methods to adapt the printer's output to the fine-arts printing of black-and-white photographs on archival-paper substrates. In August 2005, Nash and colleague Mac Holbert donated that IRIS 3047 printer to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
Nash has also exhibited a collection of his photographs at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego and elsewhere. In 2004, he released a catalog of his photography as a book entitled Eye to Eye.
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After the Dolphin At the Dolphin the beer flowed like wine And people were…
And So It Goes I'm the oil upon the water, I'm the lava in the…
Another Broken Heart Day after day I see you slipping into darkness and I…
Another Sleep Song All is need is someone to awaken me Much of me…
Barrel of Pain Hear it, hear it, hear it, hear it, hear it,…
Barrel of Pain (Half-life) Barrel of Pain (Half-Life) (5:21) words & music by Graha…
Barrel of Pain) Hear it, hear it, hear it, hear it, hear it,…
Be Yourself How does it feel When life doesn't seem real And you're fola…
Better Days When your love has moved away You must face yourself and…
Bittersweet On the one side, truth towers like a cliff On the…
Blizzard of Lies In the sea of sadness There's bound to be a tear…
Broken Bird There's a story I'd like you to listen to About a…
Carry Me When I was a young man I found an old…
Cathedral Six o' clock In the morning, I feel pretty good So I…
Chicago So your brother's bound and gagged And they've chained him t…
Chicago / We Can Change the World Though your brother's bound and gagged And they've chained …
Chippin' Away Chippin' Away (3:55) Words & music by Tom Fedora ©1986 Moon…
Clear Blue Skies Clear blue skies, not too much to ask for, They were…
Come With Me Fine lines intersecting, knowing they're going to touch Let …
Cowboy Of Dreams Saw a sing on the highway I was driving along, way…
Dear Mr. Fantasy Dear Mister Fantasy play us a tune, Something to make us…
Déjà Vu One Two Three Four If I had ever been here before I…
Dirty Little Secret Greenwood Oklahoma, June of '21 Someone set the night on fir…
Don't Listen to the Rumours Empty eyes meet mine in the moonlight You're thinking that i…
Earth & Sky Late last night, did I dream? Over the hill and far…
Encore What you gonna do when the last show is over? What…
Foolish Man I feel like a child Feel as if I might have…
Frozen Smiles I tried to reach beyond the walls you're living in As…
Glass And Steel Here in this room of glass and steel With the TV…
Grave Concern Grave concern is rolling over the hill, See them grinding th…
Heartland People come and go Living other lives Running everywhere at …
Helicopter Song Open up your window just enough to see me Silver blade…
Hey You Hey you, looking at the moon Waiting for the stars to…
Homeward Through The Haze First rain of winter First fall from grace It's my first h…
House of Broken Dreams Living in a house of broken dreams Where shadows throw shado…
I Got a Rock I got a rock You got a rock We got a rock They…
I Miss You Thinking to myself today, I'm sorry that you went away I'm…
I Surrender In times of meditation I can hear the sweetest voice Soundin…
I Used to Be a King I used to be a king And everything around me turned…
I'll Be There for You When you feel like you're drowning And waves crash all aroun…
Immigration Man There I was at the immigration scene Shining and feeling cle…
In the 80's Tired of working, it's going too Slow, you just had to…
Innocent Eyes With your innocent eyes You've been telling me lies You've b…
It's All Right When I see you beside me, smiling at me I feel…
J.B You finally found someone to watch the sunset with You final…
J.B.'s Blues You finally found someone to watch the sunset with You fina…
Jesus of Rio You are standing on top of the world With the rich…
Just a Song Before I Go Just a song before I go, To whom it may concern Traveling…
Keep Away From Me I started out to get your full attention But I just…
King Midas in Reverse If you could only see me. And know exactly were I…
Lady Of The Island Holding you close undisturbed before a fire The pressure in …
Lee Shore Wheel gull spin and glide, you've got no place to…
Liar I have always been here And I'll always be there I can…
Liar's Nightmare I have always been here And I'll always be there I can…
Live On I can't say we won the war But I can say…
Lost Another One Just another morning cup of tea, I turn my radio…
Love Has Come Love has come, and taken me, out of my mind I've…
Love Is the Reason Now the old days are gone What you gonna do from…
Love Work Out Gotta make a love work out Before you get you've got…
Low Down Payment There's one more thing I would like to say About what…
Magical Child As I lie beside you, feeling the life that we…
Mama Lion The horns in the fog could be heard if not…
Man in the Mirror On the end of a tight rope I'm over the town I'd…
Marguerita Order me a drink I'll have a glass of red wine If…
Marrakesh Express Looking at the world Through the sunset in your eyes Trying …
Michael I saw you there like a fire in the sky Then…
Military Madness In an upstairs room in Blackpool By the side of a…
Mutiny And the Blue bird over my head Is waiting for the…
Naked In The Rain The clown sat speechless, looking in his mirror Unable to r…
Newday Where was I yesterday' Have I been there once before' And wh…
Nothing in the World There's something coming through For you I can feel it in my…
Oh! Camil Oh Camil, tell me how do you feel? You fought for…
On a Carousel Riding along on a carousel, trying to catch up to…
On the Line Hanging around is holding me down I'm starting to frown at…
On the Other Side of Town I wouldn't hurt you for the world Even though yesterday I kn…
Our House I'll light the fire You put the flowers in the vase…
Out Of The Darkness Here in the dark the dusty light is fading The lonely…
Out of the Island The sky was full of diamonds Some of them were falling The…
Over the Wall Saw it in the summertime It was gray and dirty Concrete and…
Pavanne Pavanne, Cold steel woman, Pavanne. How do you love a woman?…
Pre-Road Downs I have kissed you So I'll miss you On the road I'll…
Prison Song One day a friend took me aside And said I have…
Raining In My Heart The sun is out, the sky is blue There's not a…
Raise A Voice We're all on our own Look at us all How…
Right Between The Eyes My head is hanging heavy with the thoughts of him…
Sad Eyes In the morning light I once told you That I will…
Sandy Sandy By Harry Chapin Sung by Graham Nash On the A Tribute t…
See You in Prague I took a train to the Berlin station. Rendez vous with…
Simple Man I am a simple man So I sing a simple song Never…
Skychild Skychild, on the day that we met You were eating in…
Sleep Song By Graham Nash When you were asleep I was kissing your fore…
Soldiers Of Peace Soldiers of peace are not fighting a war Are not looking…
Song for Susan If anyone wants to know where to find me I'll be…
Southbound Train Liberty, laughing and shaking your head Can you carry the to…
Spotlight How come you ask me what I'm doing here With my…
T.V. Guide Did you ever wonder why There are cameras in the sky? I…
Take The Money And Run Take the money and run Like a thief across a neighbor's…
Taken At All This is me Can you take another look Did I see you…
Teach Your Children You who are on the road Must have a code that…
The Chelsea Hotel Down at The Chelsea Hotel with poetry and paintings The wall…
There's Only One We can heed the call We can trip and fall We can…
These Empty Days There are things that I forgot to say As you rushed…
This Path Tonight Where are we going? Where are we going? In my waking days…
Time After Time Day after day when I wake up I look in your…
To the Last Whale Over the years you have been hunted By the men who…
Try To Find Me Try To Find Me by Graham Nash from the CSN - Acoustic…
TV Guide Did you ever wonder why There are cameras in the sky? I…
Two Hearts Getting off the freeway Shaking off a bad day Got to change…
Unequal Love Like a whisper on the wind Sometimes the wind don't want…
Wasted on the Way Look around me, I can see my life before me Running…
We Can Change the World We can change the world We can change the world (We can…
Where Love Lies Tonight Somewhere, somehow, I've found you Could love me all my life…
Where Will I Be? Where will I be when I go back home? Who will…
Wild Tales You came over here with wild tales from the East About…
Wind On The Water Over the years you have been hunted By the men who…
Wounded Bird I've watched you go through changes That no man should face…
You'll Never Be The Same You'll never be the same Without me by your side There's no…