Graham Nash

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Graham Nash at the Rudolstadt Festival , 2018

Graham William Nash , OBE (born February 2, 1942 in Blackpool , England ) is an English musician and songwriter who has been successful since the 1960s with the bands The Hollies and Crosby, Stills, Nash (& Young) and as a solo artist.

Career

Graham Nash, 1976

Childhood and youth

Graham Nash grew up in Manchester . At school, at the age of five, he met Allan Clarke , who quickly became his best friend. They sang together in the school choir and formed a skiffle duo called Two Teens in the 1950s, later renamed The Levins and then The Guytones. At that time, both of them had bought Guyatone guitars. In the early days of rock 'n' roll they called themselves Ricky and Dane Young. A merger of the bands Fourtones, in which the two played at the time, and The Deltas became the Hollies' first line-up in 1962.

The Hollies

Main article: The Hollies

Nash switched from rhythm guitar to vocals with the Hollies and quickly became one of the group's main songwriters .

Crosby, Stills and Nash (and Young)

Main articles: Crosby, Stills and Nash (and Young)

In 1968, after a visit to the United States , where he David Crosby in Laurel Canyon had met, Nash left the Hollies at the peak of their success to come up with Crosby and Stephen Stills , the band Crosby, Stills and Nash to start. Graham Nash is responsible for some of the band's most successful and iconic tracks: Teach Your Children (1969), Just a Song Before I Go (1977) and Wasted on the Way (1982). The latter two titles are also the only top ten hits that CSN (Y) were able to record in the single charts.

Solo career

Graham Nash, 1983

In 1971 his first solo album, Songs for Beginners, was released . In 1972 he sang the LP Graham Nash / David Crosby with David Crosby , which rose to number four on the US Billboard charts. With Neil Young he sang the single War Song .

Nash's second solo album Wild Tales was released in 1974. With Crosby he continued to work as a duo after the temporary end of Crosby, Stills & Nash . Crosby & Nash released three studio albums and one live LP in the 1970s. In between there were individual concerts by Crosby, Stills & Nash or Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young .

In the late 1970s, Nash separated from David Crosby, who was suffering from massive drug problems at the time. The last planned album eventually became Nash's third solo album Earth & Sky (1980).

In the early 1980s he took part in a few reunion shows with Stills and Crosby. Stills and Nash had written and recorded the accompanying album, Daylight Again , almost single-handedly and only brought the heavily drug addict Crosby into the studio and on tour because the record company Atlantic Records had insisted on it. Nash also played a show with the Hollies, which led to another album called What Goes Around . In 1986 his solo album Innocent Eyes was released , but it flopped.

Since then, Nash continued to tour with Crosby and Stills, supported from time to time by Neil Young. His fifth solo album, Songs for Survivors , was released in 2002, followed by another album with David Crosby two years later: the double album Crosby-Nash . In 2005 he recorded two songs with the Norwegian band a-ha for their Analogue album. In 2006 he worked on David Gilmour's solo album On an Island , in which David Crosby was also involved. They also went on tour with Gilmour.

In 2016 he released his last studio album to date, This Path Tonight .

Political commitment

At an Occupy Wall Street event , 2011

Nash has been campaigning against nuclear energy since the 1970s . In 1979 he organized a series of concerts against nuclear technology with other rock stars ( Jackson Browne , Bonnie Raitt , Bruce Springsteen ) under the name Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE), of which a live recording ( No Nukes ) is also available. In 2007, he, Raitt, and Browne recorded a music video for a re-recorded version of Buffalo Springfield's For What It's Worth . This new edition of MUSE operates under the name No Nukes group . They are loosely linked to the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS).

Honors

Although Nash is now a US citizen, he was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2010 for his services in the Queen's Birthday Honors . He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice: in 1999 as a member of Crosby, Stills & Nash and in 2010 as a member of the Hollies . He was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2009 .

Nash Editions

Graham Nash has been collecting photographs since the 1970s and has been a photographer from an early age. In 1990 he sold parts of his collection at Sotheby’s . In 1989, together with Marc Holbert Nash Editions, he founded a company that specializes in scanning and printing photographs. The company invented a new process, the so-called "digital fine-arts printmaking". Because of their merits, Nash and Holbert were awarded the PMDA Visionaries Prize. The company "is today one of the leading fine art print studios in the world".

Nash and Holbert are also involved in museum work and donated several pictures from Nash's private collection as well as specially made printers and scanners to museums and schools.

Discography

Solo albums

  • 1971: Songs for Beginners
  • 1973: Wild Tales
  • 1980: Earth & Sky
  • 1986: Innocent Eyes
  • 2002: Songs for Survivors
  • 2009: Reflections (3 CDs; compilation of his works from 1962 to 2009)
  • 2016: This Path Tonight

Crosby & Nash

  • 1972: Graham Nash / David Crosby
  • 1975: Wind on the Water
  • 1976: Whistling Down the Wire
  • 1977: Live
  • 1997: Another Stoney Evening (Live 1971)
  • 2004: Crosby-Nash

Crosby, Stills and Nash

  • 1969: Crosby, Stills & Nash
  • 1977: CSN
  • 1982: Daylight Again
  • 1983: Allies
  • 1990: Live It Up
  • 1991: CSN (box)
  • 1994: After the Storm
  • 2005: Greatest Hits
  • 2007: Live in LA (recordings from 1982)
  • 2009: Demos
  • 2012: CSN 2012

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

Chart successes

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE CH CH UK UK US US
1971 Songs for Beginners - - UK13 (8 weeks)
UK 		US15th
gold
gold

(24 weeks)US
First published: June 1971
Sales: + 500,000
1972 Graham Nash / David Crosby - - UK13 (5 weeks)
UK 		US4th
gold
gold

(26 weeks)US
First published: April 5, 1972
with David Crosby ; Sales: + 500,000
1973 Wild Tales - - - US34 (14 weeks)
US
First published: December 1973
1975 Wind on the water - - - US6th
gold
gold

(31 weeks)US
First published: September 15, 1975
with David Crosby; Sales: + 500,000
1976 Whistling down the wire - - - US26th
gold
gold

(15 weeks)US
First published: July 1976
with David Crosby; Sales: + 500,000
Out of the Darkness - - - US89 (3 weeks)
US
First published: August 1976
with David Crosby
1980 Earth + Sky - - - US117 (5 weeks)
US
First published: February 1980
1986 Innocent Eyes - - - US136 (7 weeks)
US
First published: March 27, 1986
2004 Crosby & Nash DE98 (1 week)
DE 		- UK78 (1 week)
UK 		US142 (1 week)
US
First published: August 10, 2004
with David Crosby
2016 This Path Tonight DE48 (1 week)
DE 		CH57 (1 week)
CH 		UK41 (1 week)
UK 		US93 (1 week)
US
First published: April 15, 2016
2018 Over the years - - UK27 (1 week)
UK 		-
First published: June 29, 2018

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Live albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE CH CH UK UK US US
1977 Crosby / Nash - Live - - - US52 (8 weeks)
US
First published: November 1977
with David Crosby

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Compilations

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE CH CH UK UK US US
1978 The Best Of Crosby / Nash - - - US150 (4 weeks)
US
First published: October 1978
with David Crosby

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE CH CH UK UK US US
1971 Chicago
Songs for Beginners 		DE45 (3 weeks)
DE 		- - US35 (11 weeks)
US
First published: May 1971
Military Madness
Songs for Beginners 		- - - US73 (6 weeks)
US
First published: August 1971
1972 Immigration Man
Graham Nash / David Crosby 		- - - US36 (9 weeks)
US
First published: April 1972
with David Crosby
Was song
 - - - US61 (6 weeks)
US
First published: June 24, 1972
with Neil Young
Southbound Train
Graham Nash / David Crosby 		- - - US99 (2 weeks)
US
First published: June 30, 1972
with David Crosby
1975 Carry Me
Wind on the Water 		- - - US52 (6 weeks)
US
First published: November 1975
with David Crosby
1986 Innocent Eyes
Innocent Eyes 		- - - US84 (7 weeks)
US
First published: April 1986

Books

Web links

Commons : Graham Nash  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rock icon Graham Nash and blues / soul queen Bettye LaVette play Sunset Center this week
  2. ↑ Report on No Nukes group
  3. ↑ Homepage of NIRS ( Memento of the original from June 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nirs.org
  4. ↑ A brief overview of all 2010 honorees can be found at www.foxnews.com Catherine Zeta-Jones, rocker Graham Nash among Britons honored by Queen Elizabeth II
  5. ↑ List of all members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1]
  6. ↑ List of all members of the Songwriters Hall of Fame Songwriters Hall of Fame - Inductee Exhibits by Year of Induction ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.songwritershalloffame.org
  7. ↑ News on Photoscala.de
  8. ↑ Graham Nash's biography as a photographer
  9. ↑ a b c d Chart sources: DE CH UK US1 US2 US3 US4
  10. ↑ a b c d Awards: US
personal data
SURNAME Nash, Graham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nash, Graham William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British singer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Blackpool , England