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'''Graham William Nash''' (born [[February 2]], [[1942]]) is an English |
'''Graham William Nash''' (born [[February 2]], [[1942]]) is an English [[singer-songwriter]] known for his light tenor vocals and songwriting contributions in pop group [[The Hollies]] and folk-rock band [[Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young]], and as a photography collector and photographer. |
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== Music career == |
== Music career == |
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Revision as of 01:58, 16 January 2007
Graham William Nash (born February 2, 1942) is an English singer-songwriter known for his light tenor vocals and songwriting contributions in pop group The Hollies and folk-rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and as a photography collector and photographer.
Music career
Nash was born in Blackpool, England during World War II. 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. 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 concerning the band's musical direction to the fore.
In 1968, after a visit to the USA during which he had been introduced to David Crosby in Laurel Canyon and had begun experimenting with drugs, Nash left The Hollies at the height of their fame, to form a new group with Crosby and Stephen Stills, a threesome at first, and later a foursome with Neil Young - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. With them, he 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, which would be reflected in Nash songs such 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 U.S. 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.
Photography career
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 a device initially designed for color-proofing for commercial printing, the IRIS Graphics IRIS 3074, in the late 1980's Nash experimented with the IRIS 3074 to create large-scale digital photos. Using image management software written by Nash and Holbert and a hand-built scanner, they modified the IRIS 3074 into high-quality printer, printing museum-quality black-and-white photographs on archival paper. In August 2005, Nash and colleague Mac Holbert donated an IRIS 3074 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.
Discography
Please also see discographies for The Hollies, Crosby & Nash, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Songs for Beginners, Atlantic 1971
- Wild Tales, Atlantic 1974
- Earth & Sky, EMI 1980
- Innocent Eyes, Atlantic 1986
- Songs for Survivors, Artemis 2002
Bibliography
- Eye to Eye: Photographs by Graham Nash by Nash and Garrett White (2004)
- Off The Record: Songwriters on Songwriting (2002)