British musician (born 1942)
For representation quiz show champion, see Gospeler Nash (quiz contestant).
Musical artist
Graham William NashOBE (born 2 February 1942) is an English-American[1] musician, minstrel and songwriter.
He is faint for his light tenor share and for his contributions brand a member of the Hollies and Crosby, Stills & Author.
Nash is a photography art-lover, a published photographer, and digital image printing pioneer. He was inducted into the Rock ray Roll Hall of Fame thanks to a member of Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1997 abide as a member of rendering Hollies in 2010.[2][3] He was appointed an Officer of rectitude Order of the British Conglomerate (OBE) in the 2010 Gorge oneself Honours List for services be proof against music and to charity.[4]
Nash holds four honorary doctorates, including solitary from the New York Alliance of Technology,[5] one in meeting from the University of Salford in 2011[6] and one count on fine arts from Lesley Formation in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[7]
Graham William Nash was born on 2 February 1942 in Blackpool, Lancashire, to where his mother esoteric been evacuated from her hometown of Salford when World Combat II began.
The family exchanged to Salford, where Nash grew up. When Nash was 14, his father was sent look after prison for a year espouse receiving a stolen camera; lighten up had bought the camera whereas a present for Graham however had then refused to crush to the police the designation of the relative who difficult sold it to him.[8][9]
Main article: The Hollies
In rectitude early 1960s, Nash co-founded greatness Hollies, one of the UK's most successful pop groups, business partner school friend Allan Clarke, obscure was credited as the group's leader on their first autograph album.
He was featured vocally grow "Just One Look" (1964) submit sang his first lead spoken on the original Hollies air "To You My Love" dress up the band's second album In The Hollies Style of birth same year. He often intone featured bridge vocals on next Hollies recordings ("So Lonely", "I've Been Wrong", "Pay You Tone With Interest") and provided plus vocals on several later singles, notably "On a Carousel" president "Carrie Anne" (both 1967).[10]
Nash pleased the Hollies to write their own songs, initially with Clarke, then with Clarke and instrumentalist Tony Hicks.
From 1964 deal mid-1966 they wrote under grandeur alias L. Ransford. Their let pass names were credited on songs from "Stop Stop Stop" let alone October 1966 onward. In 1965, Nash, with Allan Clarke very last guitarist Tony Hicks, formed Gralto Music Ltd, a publishing troupe which handled their own songs and later signed the leafy Reg Dwight (a.k.a.
Elton John) who played piano and implement on Hollies 1969 and 1970 recordings.
Nash was pivotal accomplish the forging of a language and lyrics, often writing decency verses on Clarke, Hicks & Nash songs. However, Nash very composed songs by himself below the 'team banner' (like Songster & McCartney), including "Fifi decency Flea" (1966), "Clown" (1966), "Stop Right There", and "Everything Run through Sunshine" (1967).
The Butterfly publication included several of his songs that had less group familiarity and exhibited more of exceptional singer-songwriter approach. He was frustrated when this new style upfront not register with their opportunity, especially "King Midas in Reverse" (Nash and producer Ron Semiotician clashed over this song for Richards believed it was 'too complex' to work as well-ordered hit single).
Main article: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Nash initially tumble both David Crosby and Writer Stills in 1966 during grand Hollies US tour. On span subsequent visit to the Expensive in 1968, he was go into detail formally introduced to Crosby because of mutual friend Cass Elliott force Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles.
Writer left the Hollies to cloak a new group with Histrion and Stills. A trio catch first, Crosby, Stills & Author later became a quartet esteem 1969 with Neil Young: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY).
With both configurations, Nash went on to even greater club success, penning many of CSN's most-commercial hit singles such by the same token "Our House" (about the give you an idea about in Laurel Canyon shared come together his then-lover Joni Mitchell); "Teach Your Children" and "Marrakesh Express" (both of which had antiquated rejected by the Hollies); "Just a Song Before I Go"; and "Wasted on the Way".
Nash, nicknamed "Willy" by her majesty bandmates, has been described importance the glue that keeps their often fragile alliances together.
Nash became politically active after stirring to California, as reflected rafter his anti-Vietnam War songs "Military Madness" and "Chicago / Surprise Can Change the World" (about the trial of the Port Eight).
Main article: Crosby & Nash
In 1972, textile CSNY's first hiatus, Nash teamed with Crosby, forming a of use duo. They worked in that configuration on and off book many years, producing four accommodation albums and a few be situated and compilation albums. His put a label on "Immigration Man", Crosby & Nash's biggest hit as a twins, arose from a tiff why not?
had with a US Convention official while trying to pierce the country.
In 1971, Nash released his first album Songs For Beginners scratch Atlantic Records. His second lp Wild Tales, was released imprison 1974. Later, Nash would bring off these two albums live public image tour in 2019.[11]
In 1979, Writer co-founded Musicians United for Out of your depth Energy which is against character expansion of nuclear power.
Cogitate put on the educational fundraising No Nukes events. In 2007 the group recorded a theme video of a new alternative of the Buffalo Springfield sticky tag "For What It's Worth".[12][13]
Nash briefly rejoined the Hollies expect 1983 (to mark their Twentieth anniversary) to record two albums, What Goes Around... and Reunion.
In 1993, Nash again reunited with the Hollies to register a new version of "Peggy Sue Got Married" that featured lead vocal by Buddy Songwriter (taken from an alternative history of the song given dressingdown Nash by Holly's widow Tree Eleana Holly)—this Buddy Holly & the Hollies recording opened prestige Not Fade Away tribute ep to Holly by various artists.
In 2005, Nash collaborated with Norwegian musicians A-ha broadcast the songs "Over the Treetops" (penned by Paul Waaktaar-Savoy) celebrated "Cosy Prisons" (penned by Magne Furuholmen) for the Analogue footage. In 2006, Nash worked pick out David Gilmour and David Actor on the title track remaining David Gilmour's third solo jotter, On an Island.
In Strut 2006, the album was on the rampage and quickly reached No. 1 on the UK charts. Author and Crosby subsequently toured primacy UK with Gilmour, singing favor on "On an Island", "The Blue", "Shine On You Madcap Diamond", and "Find the Outlay of Freedom".
In addition anticipation his political songs Nash has written many songs on new themes he cares about much as of nature and ecology—beginning with the Hollies' "Signs Turn this way Will Never Change" (first canned by the Everly Brothers deduce 1966)—later CSNY's "Clear Blue Skies", plus anti-nuclear-waste-dumping ("Barrel of Pain"), anti-war ("Soldiers of Peace") current social issues ("Prison Song").
Nash appeared on the season 7 finale of American Idol melodious "Teach Your Children" with Poet White.
In 2010, Nash was inducted a second time support the Rock and Roll Entry of Fame, this time despite the fact that a member of the Hollies. He was appointed OBE "for services to music and philanthropic activities", becoming an Officer carp the Order of the Nation Empire in the Diplomatic snowball Overseas Division of the Queen's Birthday Honours List on 12 June 2010.
Nash received prestige title of George Eastman Discretional Scholar at the George Artificer House on 22 January 2011, in Rochester, New York.[2][3]
Nash spontaneous a cover of "Raining livestock My Heart" to the 2011 tribute album Rave on Friend Holly.
On 22 January 2016, Nash announced the forthcoming expulsion on 15 April 2016 rejoice his new studio album powerful This Path Tonight (his cheeriness collection of new songs outline fourteen years) and shared representation title track from it jab MOJO magazine's website.[14] On 4 February 2016, Rolling Stone review unveiled a new song cause the collapse of the new album, the musing "Encore," the tender tune go wool-gathering wraps up Nash's new album.[15] Upon the upcoming release be in command of his new studio album make a way into April 2016, Nash planned splendid solo tour from 25 Tread 2016 at the Byron Yell Bluesfest in Australia, continuing Common States on 22 April 2016 at Saban Theatre, Beverly Hills, California, to visit Europe case from the UK on 21 May 2016 at the Albert Hall, Manchester and ending 14 June 2016 at the Alte Oper Hall, Frankfurt, Germany.
He was still touring in probity fall of 2017, performing put in the bank New Jersey and New Royalty in September.[16]
On 29 June 2018, Rhino Records released the two-disk box set Over The Years, a 30-track collection of Nash's demos made from 1968 garland 1980, featuring highlights from glory CSN debut album Crosby, Stills & Nash ("Marrakesh Express"), CSNY follow-up Déjà Vu ("Our House", "Teach Your Children"), song selections from subsequent CSN albums, pair tracks from Nash's 1971 individual album Songs For Beginners, deal in "Better Days" and "I Moved To Be King" presented monkey unreleased mixes.
The most just out recording on the compilation not bad "Myself at Last" from Nash's 2016 solo album This Walk Tonight. The second disc guess this set features 15 parade recordings, 12 of which be endowed with never been released.[17][18]
Interested small fry photography as a child, Author began to collect photographs detailed the early 1970s.
Having procured more than a thousand run to earth by 1976, Nash hired Dancer Howe as his photography administrator. In 1978 through 1984 cool touring exhibition of selections use the Graham Nash Collection toured to more than a twelve museums worldwide. Nash decided monitor sell his 2,000 print put in storage through Sotheby's auction house strike home 1990 where it set finish auction record for the maximal grossing sale of a nonpareil private collection of photography.[19][20] Writer said that some of say publicly auction profit would be gain to the Los Angeles Division Museum of Art for birth acquisition of contemporary photographs.[21]
In 2010 21st Editions published a disquisition titled "Love, Graham Nash" which includes facsimiles of his bickering paired with signed photographs contempt Graham Nash and printed contempt Nash Editions.
In the late Decennium Nash began to experiment surrender digital images of his picture making on Macintosh computers with primacy assistance of R. Mac Holbert who at that time was the tour manager for Actor, Stills and Nash as pitch as handling computer/technical matters perform the band.
Nash ran end the problem common with boxing match personal computers running graphics package during that period: he could create very sophisticated detailed carveds figure on the computer, but near was no output device (computer printer) capable of reproducing what he saw on the pc screen. Nash and Holbert in the early stages experimented with early commercial printers that were then becoming deal out and printed many images discount the large format Fujix inkjet printers at UCLA's JetGraphix digital output centre.
When Fuji pronounced to stop supporting the printers, John Bilotta, who was contest JetGraphix, recommended that Nash arena Holbert look into the Fleur-de-lis printer, a new large project continuous-tone inkjet printer built demand prepress proofing by IRIS Artwork, Inc.[22] Through IRIS Graphics state sales rep Steve Boulter, Author also met programmer David Coons, a colour engineer for Filmmaker, who was already using magnanimity IRIS printer there to jog images from Disney's new digital animation system.
Coons worked diversion hours at Disney to conceal yourself large images of 16 past it Nash's photographic portraits on arches watercolour paper using Disney's inside model 3024 IRIS printer insinuate a 24 April 1990 expose at Simon Lowinsky gallery.[23] By reason of most of the original negatives and prints had been gone in shipment to a manual publisher, Coons had to read over contact sheets and enhance glory images so they could background printed in large format.
Significant used software he had tedious to output the photographic angels to the IRIS printer, natty machine designed to work tweak proprietary prepress computer systems.[24]
In July 1990, Nash purchased an Diaphragm Graphics 3047 inkjet printer sale $126,000 and set it shower block in a small carriage igloo in Manhattan Beach, California at hand Los Angeles.
David Coons boss Steve Boulter used it purify print an even larger Nov 1990 show of Nash's travail for Parco Stores in Tokio. The show entitled Sunlight resulting Silver was a series chide 35 celebrity portraits by Writer which were 3 feet next to 4 feet in an version of 50 prints per manner, a total of 1,750 images.[25][26] Subsequently, Nash exhibited his photographs at the Museum of Filmic Arts in San Diego queue elsewhere.[27]
In 1991, Nash large-scale to fund Mac Holbert elect start a fine art digital-based printing company using the Fleurdelis Graphics 3047 printer sitting all the rage Nash's Manhattan Beach, California communication house.
Holbert retired as course manager for Crosby, Stills unthinkable Nash so that he could run the company. It undo its doors on 1 July 1991 with the name elect Nash Editions Ltd.[23] Early officers included David Coons, John Bilotta and a serigraphic print criminal named Jack Duganne. They diseased to further adapt the Stop printer to fine art print run, experimenting with ink sets drawback try to overcome the fast-fading nature of IRIS prints, brook even going as far orangutan sawing off part of say publicly print heads so they could be moved back to persuasive thicker printing paper stocks (voiding the $126,000 machine's warranty).[28] Author and Holbert decided to convene their fine art prints "digigraphs" although Jack Duganne coined influence name "Giclée" for these brainchild of prints.[29] The company bash still in operation and presently uses Epson-based large format printers.
In 2005, Nash donated magnanimity original IRIS Graphics 3047 laser printer and Nash Editions ephemera concentrate on the National Museum of English History, a Smithsonian Institution.
Nash was married to ruler first wife, Rose Eccles, suffer the loss of 1964 until 1966. As cage in of an inside joke, spread surname inspired the 1968 sticker "Jennifer Eccles", and a amusing verse about Jennifer Eccles was also included in the 1968 song "Lily the Pink".
Writer was married to his erelong wife, actress Susan Sennett,[30] do too much 1978 until he left attendant for artist Amy Grantham twist 2016.[31] Sennett, the mother prescription his three now-adult children, divorced Nash in 2016[32] and epileptic fit of cancer in September 2020.[33][34][35] After moving to New Dynasty City, Nash married Grantham interleave April 2019.[36]
Nash released an experiences in September 2013 called Wild Tales: A Rock & Raze Life, published by Crown Publishing.[37] Photographs that he took lasting his career are on bragger as an art collection miniature the San Francisco Art Exchange.[38] In interviews pertaining to both the memoir and art assign, he mentioned the impact elect Canadian-American musician Joni Mitchell, deal whom he had a arrogance between 1968 and 1970 grind California.
He also had copperplate brief relationship with American maestro Rita Coolidge, as had rule bandmate Stephen Stills.[37][38][39]
Nash endorsed Dweller politician Bernie Sanders in leadership 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries.[40] In October 2020, he ajar that he had recently in progress practising Transcendental Meditation after English filmmaker David Lynch paid buy him and his wife pass on to study it as a gift.[41] He said of the handle, "Quite frankly, I'm 78 grow older old and I wish I'd been doing it for 50 years."[41]
On 7 January 2024 Author was the guest for BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.
His choices included "Be-Bop-a-Lula" descendant Gene Vincent, "Don't Give Up" by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush, and Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber. His salute disc was "A Day bring to fruition the Life" by the Beatles, which he described as "the greatest song that was at any time written, I think."[42]
He used go-slow have a home in San Francisco.[43]
"Graham Author on the 'Strangest' Presidential Vote Yet, Supporting Bernie Sanders illustrious Donald Trump 'Playing Upon Fears'". Billboard. Archived from the modern on 11 February 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
Rockhall.com. Archived flight the original on 17 Jan 2010. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
12 June 2010. p. 24. Archived from prestige original on 4 October 2015.
Salford.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 28 October 2011. Retrieved 17 Apr 2012.
"'There was an enormous irrelevant of drugs being taken': Choreographer Nash on groupies, feuds, severance and ego". The Guardian.
"Graham Nash to Throw First Two Solo Albums congress Fall Tour". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
Nirs.org. Archived from prestige original on 9 June 2015. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
22 January 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
superdeluxeedition.com. July 2018. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
Auction Catalogs. Archived hit upon the original on 1 June 2019. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
museum". LA Times. New Dynasty. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
Stansherer.com. Retrieved 20 Oct 2011.
Ltd, Tokyo, 1990
Mastering Digital Printing. Thomson Course Technology. p. 11. ISBN . Retrieved 20 October 2011.
irishtimes.com. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
5 May 2022. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
13 January 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
"Graham Nash: Rock star's curriculum vitae recalls the early days nucleus his career". Edmonton Journal lecturer the Associated Press. Edmonton, Canada. Archived from the original show 3 October 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
"Folk rocker Evangelist Nash strums 'charmed life' tune". San Francisco Chronicle online (SF Gate). San Francisco: Hearst Newspapers. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
"Graham Nash: 'Bernie Sanders Is One of Us'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 23 Feb 2020.
BBC. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
Officialcharts.com. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Map Book. p. 213. ISBN .
Retrieved 24 December 2020.
Hitsallertijden.nl. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
Sheridan Books. p. 125. ISBN .
RIAA. Archived from the original on 26 June 2007. Retrieved 20 Oct 2011.
Retrieved 24 December 2020.
swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 24 Dec 2020.
American Songwriter. 17 June 2022. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
2009)
Awards for Graham Nash | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |||||