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Graham Nash

British musician (born )

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Musical artist

Graham William NashOBE (born 2 February ) is an English-American[1] musician, singer and songwriter. He is known for his light tenor voice and for his contributions as a member of the Hollies and Crosby, Stills & Nash.

Nash is a photography collector, a published photographer, and digital image printing pioneer. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Crosby, Stills & Nash in and as a member of the Hollies in [2][3] He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Birthday Honours List for services to music and to charity.[4]

Nash holds four honorary doctorates, including one from the New York Institute of Technology,[5] one in music from the University of Salford in [6] and one in fine arts from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[7]

Early life

Graham William Nash was born on 2 February 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. When Nash was 14, his 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]

Music career

The Hollies

Main article: The Hollies

In the early s, 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" () 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 ).[10]

Nash encouraged the Hollies to write their own songs, initially with Clarke, then with Clarke and guitarist Tony Hicks.

From to mid they wrote under the alias L. Ransford. Their own names were credited on songs from "Stop Stop Stop" from October onward. In , 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 and recordings.

Nash was pivotal in the forging of a sound and lyrics, often writing the verses on Clarke, Hicks & Nash songs.

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However, Nash also composed songs by himself under the 'team banner' (like Lennon & McCartney), including "Fifi the Flea" (), "Clown" (), "Stop Right There", and "Everything Is Sunshine" (). The Butterfly album included several of his songs that had less group participation and exhibited more of a singer-songwriter approach. He was disappointed when this new style did not register with their audience, especially "King Midas in Reverse" (Nash and producer Ron Richards clashed over this song because Richards believed it was 'too complex' to work as a hit single).

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Main article: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Nash initially met both David Crosby and Stephen Stills in during a Hollies US tour. On a subsequent visit to the US in , he was more formally introduced to Crosby by mutual friend Cass Elliott in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles. Nash left the Hollies to form a new group with Crosby and Stills.

A trio at first, Crosby, Stills & Nash later became a quartet in with Neil Young: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY).

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).

Crosby & Nash

Main article: Crosby & Nash

In , 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.

Solo career

In , Nash released his first solo album Songs For Beginners on Atlantic Records.

His second album Wild Tales, was released in Later, Nash would perform these two albums live on tour in [11]

In , Nash co-founded Musicians United for Safe Energy which is against the expansion of nuclear power. MUSE put on the educational fundraising No Nukes events. In the group recorded a music video of a new version of the Buffalo Springfield song "For What It's Worth".[12][13]

Hollies reunion

Nash briefly rejoined the Hollies in (to mark their 20th anniversary) to record two albums, What Goes Around and Reunion.

In , 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.

Later years

In , 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 , Nash worked with David Gilmour and David Crosby on the title track of David Gilmour's third solo album, On an Island.

In March , the album was released and quickly reached No. 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".

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 the Everly Brothers in )—later CSNY's "Clear Blue Skies", plus anti-nuclear-waste-dumping ("Barrel of Pain"), anti-war ("Soldiers of Peace") and social issues ("Prison Song").

Nash appeared on the season 7 finale of American Idol singing "Teach Your Children" with Brooke White.

In , Nash was inducted a second time to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, this time as a member of the Hollies. He was appointed OBE "for services to music and charitable activities", becoming an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the Diplomatic and Overseas Division of the Queen's Birthday Honours List on 12 June Nash received the title of George Eastman Honorary Scholar at the George Eastman House on 22 January , in Rochester, New York.[2][3]

Nash contributed a cover of "Raining in My Heart" to the tribute album Rave on Buddy Holly.

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On 22 January , Nash announced the forthcoming release on 15 April of his new studio album entitled This Path Tonight (his first collection of new songs in fourteen years) and shared the title track from it through MOJO magazine's website.[14] On 4 February , Rolling Stone magazine unveiled a new song from the new album, the reflective "Encore," the tender tune that wraps up Nash's new album.[15] Upon the upcoming release of his new studio album in April , Nash planned a solo tour from 25 March at the Byron Bay Bluesfest in Australia, continuing United States on 22 April at Saban Theatre, Beverly Hills, California, to visit Europe starting from the UK on 21 May at the Albert Hall, Manchester and ending 14 June at the Alte Oper Hall, Frankfurt, Germany.

He was still touring in the fall of , performing in New Jersey and New York in September.[16]

On 29 June , Rhino Records released the two-disk box set Over The Years, a track collection of Nash's demos made from to , featuring highlights from the CSN debut album Crosby, Stills & Nash ("Marrakesh Express"), CSNY follow-up Déjà Vu ("Our House", "Teach Your Children"), song selections from subsequent CSN albums, four tracks from Nash's solo album Songs For Beginners, with "Better Days" and "I Used To Be King" presented as unreleased mixes.

The most recent recording on the compilation is "Myself at Last" from Nash's solo album This Path Tonight. The second disc in this set features 15 demo recordings, 12 of which have never been released.[17][18]

Photography career

Interested in photography as a child, Nash began to collect photographs in the early s.

Having acquired more than a thousand prints by , Nash hired Graham Howe as his photography curator. In through a touring exhibition of selections from the Graham Nash Collection toured to more than a dozen museums worldwide. Nash decided to sell his 2, print collection through Sotheby's auction house in where it set an auction record for the highest grossing sale of a single private collection of photography.[19][20] 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.[21]

In 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 s Nash began to experiment with digital images of his photography on Macintosh computers with the assistance of R. Mac Holbert who at that time was the tour manager for Crosby, Stills and Nash as well as handling computer/technical matters for the band.

Nash ran into the problem common with all personal computers running graphics software during that period: he could create very sophisticated detailed images on the computer, but there was no output device (computer printer) capable of reproducing what he saw on the computer screen. Nash and Holbert initially experimented with early commercial printers that were then becoming available and printed many images on the large format Fujix inkjet printers at UCLA's JetGraphix digital output centre.

When Fuji decided to stop supporting the printers, John Bilotta, who was running JetGraphix, recommended that Nash and Holbert look into the Iris printer, a new large format continuous-tone inkjet printer built for prepress proofing by IRIS Graphics, Inc.[22] Through IRIS Graphics national sales rep Steve Boulter, Nash also met programmer David Coons, a colour engineer for Disney, who was already using the IRIS printer there to print images from Disney's new digital animation system.

Coons worked off hours at Disney to produce large images of 16 of Nash's photographic portraits on arches watercolour paper using Disney's in-house model IRIS printer for a 24 April show at Simon Lowinsky gallery.[23] Since most of the original negatives and prints had been lost in shipment to a book publisher, Coons had to scan contact sheets and enhance the images so they could be printed in large format.

He used software he had written to output the photographic images to the IRIS printer, a machine designed to work with proprietary prepress computer systems.[24]

In July , Nash purchased an IRIS Graphics inkjet printer for $, 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 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, images.[25][26] Subsequently, Nash exhibited his photographs at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego and elsewhere.[27]

Nash Editions

In , Nash agreed to fund Mac Holbert to start a fine art digital-based printing company using the IRIS Graphics printer sitting in Nash's Manhattan Beach, California carriage house.

Holbert retired as road manager for Crosby, Stills and Nash so that he could run the company. It opened its doors on 1 July with the name of Nash Editions Ltd.[23] Early employees included David Coons, John Bilotta and a serigraphic print maker named Jack Duganne. They worked to further adapt the IRIS printer to fine art printing, experimenting with ink sets to try to overcome the fast-fading nature of IRIS prints, and even going as far as sawing off part of the print heads so they could be moved back to clear thicker printing paper stocks (voiding the $, machine's warranty).[28] Nash and Holbert decided to call their fine art prints "digigraphs" although Jack Duganne coined the name "Giclée" for these type of prints.[29] The company is still in operation and currently uses Epson-based large format printers.

In , Nash donated the original IRIS Graphics 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 until As part of an inside joke, her surname inspired the song "Jennifer Eccles", and a jocular verse about Jennifer Eccles was also included in the song "Lily the Pink".

Nash was married to his second wife, actress Susan Sennett,[30] from until he left her for artist Amy Grantham in [31] Sennett, the mother of his three now-adult children, divorced Nash in [32] and died of cancer in September [33][34][35] After moving to New York City, Nash married Grantham in April [36]

Nash released an autobiography in September called Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll Life, published by Crown Publishing.[37] Photographs that he took during his career are on display as an art collection at the San Francisco Art Exchange.[38] In interviews pertaining to both the memoir and art exhibit, he mentioned the impact of Canadian-American musician Joni Mitchell, with whom he had a relationship between and in California.

He also had a brief relationship with American musician Rita Coolidge, as had his bandmate Stephen Stills.[37][38][39]

Nash has been a naturalized citizen of the United States since the late s.[1] He endorsed Bernie Sanders in the Democratic Party presidential primaries.[40] In October , 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.[41] He said of the practice, "Quite frankly, I'm 78 years old and I wish I'd been doing it for 50 years."[41]

On 7 January 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."[42]

He used to have a home in San Francisco.[43]

Discography

See also discographies for Crosby Stills Nash & Young, The Hollies and Crosby & Nash.

With The Hollies

Albums

Singles

EPs

Solo

Studio albums

Live

Compilations

Singles

Other appearances

Studio

Live

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External links

Awards for Graham Nash

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – Class of

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