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.
Encore
Graham Nash Lyrics
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What you gonna do when you can't touch base?
What you gonna do when the applauses all over?
And you can't turn your back on what you face
And who you gonna be when the lights are all fading?
And who you gonna be when the band comes off?
And who you gonna be when your heart is still aching?
Encore, encore
The last song is over
More, more
The crowd's on its feet
Sure, sure
Adulation is so pleasing
Encore, encore
And what you gonna say to the last person leaving?
What you gonna say when that light is turned off?
What you gonna do if you stop believing
That you can't seem to find what might been lost?
And how you gonna feel if friends follow fortune?
How you gonna feel if the music dies?
How you gonna live with the soul sadly sighing
Into the wind that is our life
Encore, encore
The last song is over
More, more
The crowd's on its feet
Sure, sure
That adulation is so pleasing
Encore, encore
The lyrics of Graham Nash's song "Encore" explore the emotions and questions that arise when a performer's final show is over. The first verse asks what the performer is going to do when the show is over and they can't experience the energy and adulation of the crowd anymore. It also asks what kind of person the performer will be when the spotlight isn't on them anymore, and they have to confront the realities of their life. The chorus urges the performer to come back for an encore, to prolong the moment and continue the exhilaration.
The second verse delves deeper into the emotions of the performer. It asks how the performer will react when the show is truly over, and they have to say goodbye to the last audience member. It also questions how the performer will deal with the loss of something that they may have pursued for years – their passion for music, and what they will do if they can't find it again. Finally, it wonders how the performer will cope with the loss of their friends and colleagues, as they move on to new opportunities or the music industry changes.
In essence, "Encore" is a reflection on the transience of the life of a performer, and the fleeting nature of their success. Nash acknowledges the exhilarating and addictive nature of the crowd's adulation, but also reminds the performer that life goes on after the show is over, and they have to confront the realities of their circumstances.
Line by Line Meaning
What you gonna do when the last show is over?
What plans do you have after your career comes to an end?
What you gonna do when you can't touch base?
What will you do when you lose touch with your supporters?
What you gonna do when the applauses all over?
What actions are you going to take when the admiration you receive ends?
And you can't turn your back on what you face
You cannot avoid the things you have to confront.
And who you gonna be when the lights are all fading?
What is left of you when the spotlight is gone?
And who you gonna be when the band comes off?
Who are you after your bandmates have moved on?
And who you gonna be when your heart is still aching?
What are you going to do when you are still hurt inside?
And you can't shrug it off with just a laugh
You can't dismiss your pain as easily as you would like.
Encore, encore
Please, give me another chance.
The last song is over
My performance is complete.
More, more
I need more of the attention and admiration.
The crowd's on its feet
The audience is cheering for me.
Sure, sure
I'm confident in my abilities.
Adulation is so pleasing
I enjoy being praised.
And what you gonna say to the last person leaving?
What will you tell the final person on your way out?
What you gonna say when that light is turned off?
What are your final words after the lights go out?
What you gonna do if you stop believing
How will you react if you lose your faith?
That you can't seem to find what might been lost?
When you can't seem to locate what you have lost?
And how you gonna feel if friends follow fortune?
How will you react if your friends only stay with you for the money?
How you gonna feel if the music dies?
How will you feel when your music is no longer popular?
How you gonna live with the soul sadly sighing
How will you cope with a sad and heavy heart?
Into the wind that is our life
In the end, our life just blows away like the wind.
Lyrics © Spirit Music Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: GRAHAM NASH, SHANE FONTAYNE
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@stephenfeldman8104
What you gonna do when the last song is over?
What you gonna do when you can't touch base?
And what you gonna do when the applause is all over
And you can't turn your back on what you face?
And who you gonna be when the lights are all fading?
And who you gonna be when the band comes off?
And who you gonna be when your heart is still aching
And you can't shrug it off with just a laugh?
Encore, encore
The last song is over
More, more
The crowd's on its feet
Sure, sure
Adulation is so pleasing
Encore, encore
And what you gonna say to the last person leaving?
What you gonna say when the light's turned off?
What you gonna do if you stop believing
That you can't seem to find what might be lost?
And how you gonna feel if friends follow fortune?
And how you gonna feel if the music dies?
And how you gonna live with the soul sadly sighing
Into the wind that is our life?
Encore, encore
The last song is over
More, more
The crowd is on its feet
Sure, sure
Adulation is so pleasing
Encore, encore
@sandmtnirishred
TRICK-OR TREAT oh, you didn't catch it, did you? Not that Nash intended many to be able to do so.
He's talking to David. Nash has always been very gifted at almost undetectable manipulation of words and the use of musicians being in the public EAR to make points.
According to the other 3 initials:
Nash was very professional, everything in its place, time, pocket, etc. Which is essential for musicians. Crosby is very emotionally charged and can find a way to link issues and performers. Neil is a brilliant songwriter and performer of any genre and he's going to blow in and out of every genre and performer he connects with.
Stephen is a blindingly brilliant instrumentalist on several instruments, writer, singer, performer, intellectual(it's not everyone in their time who made a double 800 on the SAT for college, speaks 3 languages fluently, etc), and without Stephen's talent for taking everything handed to him from anyone and creating the music for it, none of the rest would be possible.
"How you gonna feel when the music dies
How you gonna feel soul sadly searching
For the wind that is our life..."
Steven is dying, honey. No one gets custody.
@garyoldham4449
@@myguitardetective5961
I'll just take your first lines.
"Huh? Trump cut revenues..."
Since when does any president "cut" revenues. It's a free market system. You know this and yet you spin it as though he "did" something "deliberately" and "cut" revenues. You word it like the propagandist a hole you are. No president cuts revenue. Your word choice says it all.
A president tweaks the system either to create a strong economy or to push for a change of the form of government such as paths toward higher levels of socialism.
Just the fact that you try to spin and spread misinformation that "he cut revenues" tells me that you are no one to be taken seriously.
What I said stands... before the pandemic we had a strong economy and the highest employment numbers which means tax revenue. The pandemic comes along and shuts the economy down.
Leading up to the shutdowns we had a very strong economy because of the tax cuts and incentives. Because of streamlining, trying to create a smaller government and eliminating unnecessary expenditure.
For example he eliminated Obama's pandemic preparedness team. Then we had to endure the mainstream media bashing him for "undermining our preparedness!" Really?!
The fact is they were nothing more than pencil pushers. They wrote reports advising the president that is all they did. They did not deliver supplies, they were not truck drivers bringing ventilators to hospitals, they were not first responders for Christ's sake! They did nothing except push pencils and write reports. They were advisors for Christ's sake and yet Trump haters use that as though that was the only source. As though he had to use Obama's advisors instead of creating his own. He got the same pencil pushing advice, from other departments. Obama's preparedness team offices were eliminated and recreated in NHS offices.
Besides the fact that in fact did have it key pandemic preparedness advisors he also had, and any president has many options dispersed all around the world and only a phone call away, from any source he is comfortable with not the ones that you dictate he must use. Access to every expert in the world not only his own advisors or his own cabinet members but any experts in business circles, experts in science communities, astronomers, economists, or even paleontologists if there was a dinosaur threat. Anyone in all of the world any source that he chooses.
Not the ones you or CNN insists that he has to use. And especially not the ones Obama chose specifically because of their loyalty.
And the cost of the pandemic preparedness team was b*******.
Because it was a bunch of b***** people pencil pushers who were against Trump. If the whole point is to streamline and reduce the cost of government then he did what he did to contribute tothat. One of thousands of ways where his sensibility and business sense was to cut costs and streamline and stop wasting money on foreign involvement, and the list is huge. And largely ignored because of hatred. No other reason.
Besides keeping money here instead of throwing it away overseas. Building a strong economy, generating tax revenue, and every measure known to stimulate job creation. All of these things as I said it was his main purpose so everything he did revolved around making America great again which means one thing. We must pay off the national debt before we will ever be able to afford the changes that we all hope to see. 8 years of his policies would have done it. No. The Democrats and the pandemic stopped it.
It is one thing out of many in the list of his accomplishments which you should have read at the .gov website. Every watcher of CNN and every Trump basher should have went to the.gov website and read the list of his accomplishments then you would have seen a common thread of saving money and creating money. And you would have questioned the authenticity of CNN's reporting. You obviously swallowed the Kool-Aid and are still drinking it.
Trump haters never went there. They never read the list. They watched only news that never reported the list. The longest list of any president. Yes very busy making changes. All for one purpose
Because they were biased. And so are you because you only watched the news that hated him.
If you had read the list you would have seen a common thread. Reducing the size and cost of government. Stopping billions of dollars in foreign aid. Billions of dollars in NATO and W.H.O.
He simply said sorry to the rest of the world but we cannot help you as we used to right now. We have to make America first and you'll have to deal with your own troubles. We are deep in debt. And the only way we're going to get the changes we need to see is if we get the debt paid off so we can afford the changes that need to happen.
That was temporary. Just like loosening environmental regulations was temporary. Environmental concerns are real. Of course it doesn't sound logical to remove environmental restrictions. But it was only for a season. Maybe for 8 years. Then with the debt paid off and able to afford the changes we need the environmental regulations could have gone back in place including becoming stricter and moving toward The changes that need to happen cannot be afforded therefore the best thing to do is to do everything possible to create a strong economy to get the national debt paid off.
I don't know what the numbers are you're talking about. I do know the stock market was record highs. That is a strong indicator of a strong economy. Employment numbers were higher than ever that is a strong indicator. And high employment numbers means tax revenue flowing in instead of going out. It means that people who were pulling money out of the tax revenue in welfare were now leaving that welfare money in the tax revenues. Plus paying in taxes. That is two chunks of money.
Conversely in a weak economy they may be pulling money out of the tax revenues while simultaneously not paying money in that is also two chunks of money. Not one.
Everything I said was correct. I said everything he did was an attempt to do something about this nation's financial disaster. An attempt is an attempt. And it's like any investment, it might pay off or it might not. We never found out because the pandemic didn't allow the payoff.. if the pandemic had not stopped the economy Trump's last year in office would have made up for all of the investment he did initially to get things jump started. That would not have been enough to pay off the national debt but if it had proceeded for another 4 years at the end of the entire 8 years it would have been paid off. And then we could afford the changes that truly need to happen. The changes that both sides want.
Initially you invest money.. yes he created debt yes.. you are correct so what you are correct. Anyone with a brain knows the first step. It takes money to make money. It's called investment.
It's no different than a local flower shop startup. They both worked full-time jobs. They invested money.
A building, coolers, countertop, cash register, windows, flooring, bathroom fixtures, lighting, decor. Even when they start selling flowers they're not making any profit because it has to go back into the business. It's called investment.
Now that flower shop was just about to become profitable when the pandemic shut them down.
That's the same thing with Trump.
You aren't going to listen because you're trying to spin the truth against everything I say. But what I say will bring more truth than anything you got.
I said everything he did was an attempt. And you talk about how it didn't work out so well. But you don't admit that the strong economy that preceded the shutdowns put us in a much better position of strength going into the shutdowns. The actions the took were paying off.
You won't admit that the strong economy preceding the shutdowns helped us a tremendously because you hate him and you will twist the truth Any Which Way You Can. But no one is buying it except your fellow Trump haters who are also blind by their hatred. Because love sees the good in someone and cannot see their flaws. But hatred is also blind in a much more insidious way. Because it can only see someone's flaws which everyone has including Trump. And hatred cannot see. I don't save refuses to see. I'm saying cannot see or acknowledge accomplishments. Which were in a list at .gov which you refused to go read, which CNN refuse to report.
Because it's a psychological impossibility to hate someone and simultaneously acknowledge their accomplishments. Therefore you will never admit that his strong economy... For a fairly long period of time before the shutdowns... Meant that we entered the shutdowns from a better position of strength. You will never admit that unless you ever achieve the sublimation of hate. Then you will be able psychologically to acknowledge accomplishments that now your brain does not allow you to ever see. Once again it's not that you refuse to acknowledge them. It's because when you hate someone you cannot see them. Not trying to see that! Not willing to hear that! No no no! He undid the preparedness team!!!!! And every other BS that's ever been thrown at Trump except the things that apply to actual flaws which he has some. But do you haters that's the only thing that exists is the flaws.
@billlord4203
70+ years young and still as beautiful a musician as ever. There is hope.
@bernadettecognacpitre2380
j,ai aimé à la folie toutes les chanson de Graham
et je continie , 60 ans plus tard , amazing
@braddakimo1954
After all the great music C&N, CSN, CSN&Y created, made them legendary and unforgettable. I could tell from early on, Graham showed great patience with Crosby. What is amazing is how long Nash put up with it. There is always a limit. Sorry you had to put up with it for so long. Many of us can probably relate... "Next!"
@mytoobusr
Beautiful song, Beautiful singing, Beautiful guitar, Beautiful playing…Encore.
@bothedandi
Thanks a lot Mr David Crosby!! So long CSN & CSNY
We can forgive our friends but after a while the only forgiveness they'll understand is goodbye!
Thanks for this Graham.
@MarcoZucchi81
What happened between Graham and David?
@Ryanks12
I think they're friends again now?
@nigelgreenwood9010
David Crosby had some "truths" about Neil Young getting married to a younger wife. Then Graham Nash leaves his wife of many years for a Joni Mitchell lookalike 30 years his junior. Graham took it to heart it seems.
Perhaps not wise to say these things out loud, but, personally think Crosby is not far wrong. You say these things face to face and in front of them, not on TV or radio, behind their backs.
However, easy to say when you've met the 'right' partner, but Graham in particular has always been a bit of a gypsy.
@bennymwelch
@@nigelgreenwood9010 Yeah, Crosby is a pretty terrible person from what I've read about some of the things he's done to other people, but Idk, it's never always just one person in a lot of these scenarios.
I don't think there's much wrong with Neil Young marrying a younger woman though, especially when Crosby's wife is 10 years younger than him too, I wouldn't say Crosby is really justified for that. He may have had some valid criticisms for what Nash did however, and I wouldn't be surprised if Nash just had it with Crosby and used that as a way out.
Crosby said they were all terrible to eachother, and honestly they probably all are terrible people, so it's really hard telling who's really the worst out of all of them or who's in the right or wrong. Just goes to show a lot of celebrity drama is just a bunch of petty one sided bullshit lol.
@Epulor1
A great song needs two things. It needs musical knowledge and it needs emotion. This comes from both.