Graham Nash
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Birth name | Graham William Nash |
Born | Blackpool, England | 2 February 1942
Origin | Salford, England |
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Years active | 1958–present |
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Website | grahamnash |
Graham William Nash
Nash is a photography collector and a published photographer. He was inducted into the
Nash holds four honorary doctorates, including one from the New York Institute of Technology,[5] one in music from the University of Salford in 2011[6] and one in fine arts from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[7]
Early life
Graham William Nash was born on 2 February 1942 in Blackpool, Lancashire, to where his mother had been evacuated from her hometown of Salford when World War II began. The family returned to Salford, where Nash grew up. At the age of 14, Nash's father was sent to prison for a year for receiving a stolen camera; he had bought the camera as a present for Graham but had then refused to disclose to the police the name of the relative who had sold it to him.[8][9]
Career
Songwriting
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In the early 1960s, Nash co-founded the Hollies, one of the UK's most successful pop groups, with school friend Allan Clarke, and was credited as the group's leader on their first album. He was featured vocally on "Just One Look" (1964) and sang his first lead vocal on the original Hollies song "To You My Love" on the band's second album In The Hollies Style of the same year. He often sang featured bridge vocals on later Hollies recordings ("So Lonely", "I've Been Wrong", "Pay You Back With Interest") and provided lead vocals on several later singles, notably "On a Carousel" and "Carrie Anne" (both 1967).[10]
Nash encouraged the Hollies to write their own songs, initially with Clarke, then with Clarke and guitarist Tony Hicks. From 1964 to mid-1966 they wrote under the alias L. Ransford. Their own names were credited on songs from "Stop Stop Stop" from October 1966 onward. In 1965, Nash, with Allan Clarke and guitarist Tony Hicks, formed Gralto Music Ltd, a publishing company which handled their own songs and later signed the young Reg Dwight (a.k.a. Elton John) who played piano and organ on Hollies 1969 and 1970 recordings.
Nash was pivotal in the forging of a sound and lyrics, often writing the verses on Clarke, Hicks & Nash songs. However, Nash also composed songs by himself under the 'team banner' (like
Nash initially met both
With both configurations, Nash went on to even greater worldwide success, penning many of CSN's most-commercial hit singles such as "Our House" (about the house in Laurel Canyon shared with his then-lover Joni Mitchell); "Teach Your Children" and "Marrakesh Express" (both of which had been rejected by the Hollies); "Just a Song Before I Go"; and "Wasted on the Way". Nash, nicknamed "Willy" by his bandmates, has been described as the glue that keeps their often fragile alliances together.
Nash became politically active after moving to California, as reflected in his anti-Vietnam War songs "Military Madness" and "Chicago / We Can Change the World" (about the trial of the Chicago Eight).
In 1972, during CSNY's first hiatus, Nash teamed with Crosby, forming a successful duo. They worked in this configuration on and off for many years, producing four studio albums and a few live and compilation albums. His song "Immigration Man", Crosby & Nash's biggest hit as a duo, arose from a tiff he had with a US Customs official while trying to enter the country.
In 1979, Nash co-founded
Nash briefly rejoined the Hollies in 1983 (to mark their 20th anniversary) to record two albums, What Goes Around... and Reunion. In 1993, Nash again reunited with the Hollies to record a new version of "Peggy Sue Got Married" that featured lead vocal by Buddy Holly (taken from an alternative version of the song given to Nash by Holly's widow Maria Eleana Holly)—this Buddy Holly & the Hollies recording opened the Not Fade Away tribute album to Holly by various artists.
In 2005, Nash collaborated with Norwegian musicians
In addition to his political songs Nash has written many songs on other themes he cares about such as of nature and ecology—beginning with the Hollies' "Signs That Will Never Change" (first recorded by
Nash appeared on the season 7 finale of American Idol singing "Teach Your Children" with Brooke White.
In 2010, Nash was inducted a second time to the
Nash contributed a cover of "
On 22 January 2016, Nash announced the forthcoming release on 15 April 2016 of his new studio album entitled
He was still touring in the fall of 2017, performing in New Jersey and New York in September.[15]
On 29 June 2018,
Photography career
Interested in photography as a child, Nash began to collect photographs in the early 1970s. Having acquired more than a thousand prints by 1976, Nash hired Graham Howe as his photography curator. In 1978 through 1984 a touring exhibition of selections from the Graham Nash Collection toured to more than a dozen museums worldwide. Nash decided to sell his 2,000 print collection through Sotheby's auction house in 1990 where it set an auction record for the highest grossing sale of a single private collection of photography.[18][19] Nash said that some of the auction profit would be given to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for the acquisition of contemporary photographs.[20]
In 2010 21st Editions published a monograph titled "Love, Graham Nash" which includes facsimiles of his lyrics paired with signed photographs by Graham Nash and printed by Nash Editions.
Early digital fine art printing
Experimenting
In the late 1980s Nash began to experiment with digital images of his photography on
Coons worked off hours at Disney to produce large images of 16 of Nash's photographic portraits on
In July 1990, Nash purchased an IRIS Graphics 3047 inkjet printer for $126,000 and set it up in a small carriage house in Manhattan Beach, California near Los Angeles. David Coons and Steve Boulter used it to print an even larger November 1990 show of Nash's work for Parco Stores in Tokyo. The show entitled Sunlight on Silver was a series of 35 celebrity portraits by Nash which were 3 feet by 4 feet in an edition of 50 prints per image, a total of 1,750 images.[24][25] Subsequently, Nash exhibited his photographs at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego and elsewhere.[26]
Nash Editions
In 1991, Nash agreed to fund Mac Holbert to start a fine art digital-based printing company using the
In 2005, Nash donated the original IRIS Graphics 3047 printer and Nash Editions ephemera to the National Museum of American History, a Smithsonian Institution.
Personal life
Nash was married to his first wife, Rose Eccles, from 1964 until 1966. As part of an inside joke, her surname inspired the 1968 song "Jennifer Eccles", and a jocular verse about Jennifer Eccles was also included in the 1968 song "Lily the Pink". Nash was married to his second wife, actress Susan Sennett,[29] from 1978 until he left her for artist Amy Grantham in 2016.[30] Sennett, the mother of his three now-adult children, divorced Nash in 2016[31] and died of cancer in September 2020.[32][33][34] After moving to New York City, Nash married Grantham in April 2019.[35]
Nash released an autobiography in September 2013 called Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll Life, published by
Nash endorsed American politician Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries.[39] In October 2020, he revealed that he had recently started practising Transcendental Meditation after American filmmaker David Lynch paid for him and his wife to study it as a gift.[40] He said of the practice, "Quite frankly, I'm 78 years old and I wish I'd been doing it for 50 years."[40]
On 7 January 2024 Nash was the guest for BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. His choices included "Be-Bop-a-Lula" by Gene Vincent, "Don't Give Up" by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush, and Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber. His favourite disc was "A Day in the Life" by the Beatles, which he described as "the greatest song that was ever written, I think."[41]
Discography
- See also discographies for Crosby Stills Nash & Young, The Hollies and Crosby & Nash.
With The Hollies
Albums
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Stay with The Hollies |
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In The Hollies Style
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Hollies |
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Would You Believe?
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Bus Stop
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For Certain Because |
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Evolution
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Butterfly
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What Goes Around... |
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Singles
Title | Year |
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"(Ain't That) Just Like Me" | 1963 |
"Searchin'" | |
"Stay" | |
"Just One Look" | 1964 |
"Here I Go Again" | |
"Lucille" | |
"We're Through" | |
"Yes I Will" | 1965 |
"I'm Alive" | |
"Look Through Any Window" | |
"If I Needed Someone" | |
"I Can't Let Go" | 1966 |
"Very Last Day" | |
"Bus Stop" | |
"After the Fox" (with Peter Sellers) | |
"Stop Stop Stop" | |
"What's Wrong with the Way I Live" | |
"On a Carousel" | 1967 |
"Pay You Back with Interest" | |
"Carrie Anne" | |
"Peculiar Situation" | |
"Kill Me Quick" | |
"That's My Desire" | |
"King Midas in Reverse" | |
"Just One Look" (re-release) | |
"Dear Eloise" | |
"Jennifer Eccles" | 1968 |
"Step Inside" | |
"Do the Best You Can" | |
" Listen to Me "
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"Holliedaze" | 1981 |
"Take My Love and Run" | |
"Stop in the Name of Love" | 1983 |
"If the Lights Go Out" |
EPs
Title | EP details |
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The Hollies |
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Just One Look |
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Here I Go Again |
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We're Through |
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In The Hollies Style |
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I'm Alive
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I Can't Let Go |
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Solo
Studio albums
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications /Sales
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UK [42] |
AUS [43][44] |
CAN [45] |
GER
[46] |
NLD [47] |
NOR [48] |
SWE [49][50] |
US CB [51] |
US RW [52] |
US [53] | ||||
Songs for Beginners |
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13 | 11 | 11 | — | 4 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 15 |
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Wild Tales |
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— | — | 62 | — | — | — | — | 22 | 24 | 34 |
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Earth & Sky |
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | 106 | 104 | 117 | ||
Innocent Eyes |
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— | 91 | — | — | — | — | — | 123 | — | 136 | ||
Songs for Survivors |
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
This Path Tonight |
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41 | — | — | 48 | 22 | 27 | 58 | — | — | 93 | ||
Now |
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97 | — | — | 28 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
"—" denotes items that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |
Live
Title | Album details |
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Graham Nash: Live – Songs for Beginners / Wild Tales |
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Compilations
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||
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UK [42] |
BEL [56] |
NLD [47] |
SPA
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Reflections |
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— | — | — | — |
Over the Years
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27 | 55 | 78 | 94 |
"—" denotes items that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |
Singles
Year | Title[58] | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||||
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US [51] |
US CB [51] |
US RW [52] |
AUS [59] |
CAN
[45] |
GER [60] |
BEL [60] | |||
1971 | "Chicago" | 35 | 29 | 29 | 32 | 19 | 45 | 29 | Songs for Beginners |
"Military Madness" | 73 | 66 | 73 | 20 | 57 | — | — | ||
"I Used to Be a King" | 111 | — | 117 | — | — | — | — | ||
1972 | "War Song" (with Neil Young & the Stray Gators) | 61 | 52 | — | — | 40 | — | — | non-album single |
1973 | "Prison Song" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Wild Tales |
1974 | "On the Line" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
"Grave Concern" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1979 | "In the 80's" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Earth & Sky |
1980 | "Magical Child" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
"Out of the Island" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1986 | "Innocent Eyes" | 84 | 85 | — | 96 | — | — | — | Innocent Eyes |
"Chippin' Away" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
2002 | "I'll Be There for You" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Songs for Survivors |
"Lost Another One" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
2011 | "Almost Gone" (with James Raymond) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | non-album single |
2016 | "Another Broken Heart" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | This Path Tonight |
"This Path Tonight" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
"Myself at Last" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
2020 | "Vote" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | non-album single[61] |
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart. "Innocent Eyes" also reached number 14 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. |
Other appearances
Studio
Year | Song | Album |
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1982 | "Love Is the Reason" | Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
1986 | "Wings to Fly" | American Anthem |
Live
Year | Song | Type | Album |
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2019 | "Our House" | album | Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration |
2022 | "So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)" (with Chris Stills) | video | Hey Doll Baby[62] |
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Bibliography
- Eye to Eye: Photographs by Graham Nash by Nash and Garrett White (2004) Steidl, ISBN 978-3882439601
- Off the Record: Songwriters on Songwriting by Graham Nash (2002) Andrews McMeel Publishing, ISBN 978-0740726781
- Love, Graham Nash (2 vols. 2009)
- Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll Life by Graham Nash (17 September 2013), Penguin, ISBN 978-0241968048
External links
- Graham Nash official website
- Nash Editions official website
- Crosby-Nash official website Archived 19 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- CSN official website Archived 11 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine
- CSNY official website
- Graham Nash discography at Discogs
- Graham Nash Interview at NAMM Oral History Collection (2016, 2017)
- Graham Nash Interview July 2022 in Portland Magazine