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Hollies - Hollies Greatest Hits

by: The Hollies

Release Date March 26, 2002
Before they became The Hollies, lead vocalist Allan Clarke and guitarist Graham Nash, both from Manchester, England, had performed as a duo calling themselves The Guytones. Then, with the addition of two more they changed briefly to The Fourtones, then The Deltas and, in 1962, The Hollies, with bassists Eric Haycock and drummer Don Rathbone. A year later they got a contract with the famed British label, Parlophone (part of EMI) and a fifth member, guitarist Tony Hicks.

In May that year they had their first U.K. hit, a cover of The Coaster's Ain't That Just Like Me which, b/w Hey, What's Wrong With Me, reached # 25 on the British charts, and in August followed that with another Coasters cover, Searchin' which hit # 12 b/w The Whole ... Read More: