See Graham Nash (Countdown) for
the contestant on long-running British television show Countdown.
| Graham Nash |
Graham
Nash on the cover of his album Wild Tales in 1973
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| Background information |
| Birth name |
Graham William Nash |
| Born |
February 2, 1942 |
| Origin |
 Blackpool,
England |
| Genre(s) |
Pop music |
| Instrument(s) |
guitar, vocal
harmonies |
| Years active |
1960s- present |
Associated
acts |
The Hollies, Crosby, Stills,
Nash & Young, Crosby & Nash |
| Website |
grahamnash.com |
Graham William Nash (born February
2, 1942) is
an English-born 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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Contents
- 1 Music
career
- 2 Photography
career
- 3 Discography
- 4 Bibliography
- 5 External
links
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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
Sotheby's
catalog of Graham Nash's photography collection
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 1980's 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 art 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.
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
Cover of Graham Nash's photography book, Eye to Eye,
2004
- Eye to Eye: Photographs by Graham Nash
by Nash and Garrett White (2004)
- Off The Record: Songwriters on Songwriting
(2002)
External links
| v • d • e Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young |
David
Crosby | Stephen Stills | Graham Nash | Neil Young
|
| Discography |
Crosby, Stills
& Nash | Déjà
Vu | Four
Way Street | So
Far | CSN
| Replay | Daylight
Again | Allies
|
American Dream
| Live It Up
| CSN (box set)
| After the Storm
| Carry On
| Looking Forward
| Greatest Hits |
| Songs |
"Suite:
Judy Blue Eyes" | "Marrakesh Express" | "Wooden
Ships" | "Woodstock" | "Helpless"
| "Ohio" |
"Just a Song Before I Go" | "Southern
Cross" |
| Other
related bands |
| The Byrds | Buffalo
Springfield | The Hollies | CPR | Crosby
& Nash | The Stills-Young Band | Manassas
| Crazy Horse |
| Other
related people |
| Joni
Mitchell | Judy Collins | Chris
Hillman | Cass
Elliot | Timothy B. Schmit |
| v • d • e Graham
Nash |
| Studio
albums |
| Songs for Beginners
| Wild
Tales | Earth
& Sky | Innocent Eyes
| Songs for Survivors |
| Related
articles |
| The Hollies | Crosby
& Nash | Crosby, Stills,
Nash & Young |
| v • d • e Crosby & Nash |
| David Crosby | Graham Nash |
| Studio
albums |
| Graham Nash David Crosby
| Wind on the Water
| Whistling Down the Wire
| Crosby & Nash
| Crosby & Nash:
Highlights |
| Compilations |
| The Best of Crosby
& Nash | The Best of
Crosby & Nash: The ABC Years |
| Live
albums |
| Crosby-Nash Live
| Another Stoney Evening |
| Related
articles |
| The Byrds | The
Hollies | CPR
| Crosby, Stills,
Nash & Young | The Section | Russ
Kunkel | Tim Drummond | Craig
Doerge | Danny Kortchmar | David Lindley | Leland
Sklar |
