Graham Nash

At 82 years old, Graham Nash has this physical status:

Graham William Nash (born 2 February 1942) is a British-American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

Nash is known for his light tenor voice and songwriting contributions as a member of the English pop/rock band The Hollies and the folk-rock supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash.

Nash became an American citizen on August 14th and has dual citizenship of the United Kingdom and the United States. Nash is both a photographer and photographer.

In the 2010 Birthday Honours List for services to music and charities, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1997 and as a member of the Hollies in 2010.Nash also earned an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the University of Salford.

Personal life

Rose Eccles, Nash's first wife, was married to him from 1964 to 1966. Jennifer Eccles' surname inspired "Jennifer Eccles," a 1968 Hollies single, and Nash's "Live" a 1966 single on which Nash sang backing vocals. Nash was married to his second wife, Susan Sennett, for 38 years until she divorced and he moved to New York in 2016. He has three adult children. In April 2019, Nash married artist Amy Grantham.

In September 2013, Nash published Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll Life. As an art exhibit at the San Francisco Art Exchange, photographs from his lifetime are on display. In interviews about both the memoir and art show, he discusses Joni Mitchell, with whom he had a brief acquaintance in California between 1968 and 1970. Nash had a brief acquaintance with Rita Coolidge, as had Stephen Stills.

In the 2016 Democratic Party primary, Nash endorsed Bernie Sanders.

Nash discovered Transcendental Meditation early in life. "I recently started Transcendental Meditation as a gift from director David Lynch," he said. He paid for me and my wife, Amy, to learn T.M. "I'm 78 years old, and I wish I'd been doing it for 50 years," says the author.

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Early life and early music career

Nash was born in 1942 in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, his mother was evacuated there from the Nashes' home town of Salford, Lancashire, as a result of the Second World War. The family then moved to Salford, where Nash grew up. With school friend Allan Clarke, he co-founded the Hollies, one of the UK's most popular pop groups, in the early 1960s and was named as the group's leader on their first album. On the band's second album In The Hollies Style of the same year, he appeared on "Just One Look" (1964) and performed his first lead vocal on the original Hollies song "To You My Love." He performed featured bridge vocals on later Hollies albums ("So Lonely," "I've Been Wrong"), and "Pay You Back With Interest"), and appeared on several later singles, including "On a Carousel" and "Carrie Anne," both 1967).

Nash encouraged the Hollies to write their own songs, first with Clarke, then with Clarke and guitarist Tony Hicks. They wrote under the name L. Ransford from 1964 to mid-1966. From October 1966 to today, the recipients' names were credited on songs from "Stop Stop Stop Stop Stop Stop Stop Stop Stop Stop Stop Stop" to their own pages.

Nash founded Gralto Music Ltd, a publishing company that specialized in their own songs and later signed the young Reg Dwight (a.k.a. ). 'Elton John' – who performed piano and organ on Hollies' 1969 and 1970 recordings.'

Career

Nash was instrumental in the creation of a sound and lyrics, often writing the verses on Clarke, Hicks & Nash songs. However, Nash performed original songs under the 'team banner' (as Lennon & McCartney), for example, 'Fifi the Flea (1966), 'Everything is Sunshine' (1967). Several of his songs featured less group involvement and more of a singer-songwriter approach on the Butterfly album. This new style left him disappointed, especially "King Midas in Reverse" (Nash and producer Ron Richards argued over this track because Richards felt it was "too complicated" to work as a hit single).

During a Hollies US tour in 1966, Nash first met both David Crosby and Stephen Stills. On a subsequent trip to the United States in 1968, he was more officially introduced to Crosby by a mutual friend Cass Elliott in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles. Nash joined Crosby and Stills in a new group. Crosby, Stills & Nash, a trio at first, became a quartet with Neil Young in 1969: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. CSNY, n.d.

Nash continued to find international success with "Our Home" and "Marrakesh Express" (both of which had been rejected by the Hollies; "Just a Song Before Going" and "Wasted on the Way." Nash, who has been dubbed "Willy" by his bandmates, has been dubbed the glue that holds their often fragile relationships together.

Nash became politically active after moving to California, as shown in his anti-Vietnam War songs "Military Madness" and "Chicago / We Can Change the World" (about the Chicago Eight's trial).

Nash collaborated with Crosby in 1972, forming a fruitful pair during CSNY's first hiatus. They've been in this arrangement on and off ever since, releasing four studio albums and a few live and compilation albums. The song "Immigration Man," Crosby & Nash's biggest hit as a pair, arose from a dispute with a US Customs official when trying to enter the country.

Nash co-founded Musicians United for Safe Energy, which is opposed to nuclear development's expansion. No Nukes events were sponsored by MUSE. In 2007, the group produced a music video of a new Buffalo Springfield tune "For What It's Worth."

In 1983 (to celebrate their 20th anniversary) Nash briefly returned to the Hollies for a short period of time with two albums, What Goes Around... and Reunion. Nash reunited with the Hollies in 1993 to record a new version of "Peggy Sue Got Married" starring lead vocal Buddy Holly (taken from an earlier version of the song by Holly's widow Maria Eleana Holly's widow Maria Eleana Holly)—this Buddy Holly & the Hollies tribute album to Holly was released by a number of artists.

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 collection in 2005. Nash appeared on David Gilmour and David Crosby's third solo album, On an Island, in 2006. The album was first unveiled in March 2006 and has quickly climbed to No. 1 in the United States. On the UK charts, there is one on top. Nash and Crosby performed on "On an Island," "The Blue," "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," and "Find the Cost of Freedom" on Saturday. Gilmour, Keith Nash, a.k.a.

Nash has written many songs on other topics he cares about, such as of nature and ecology (first released by the Everly Brothers in 1966), anti-nuclear-dumping ("Meganism"), and social issues ("Prison Song"), as well as mental health.

Nash appeared on Brooke White's "Teach Your Children" on season 7.

Nash was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the second time in 2010, this time as a member of the Hollies. On the 12th of June 2010, he was awarded an OBE "for services to music and charitable causes" as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the Diplomatic and Overseas Division of the Queen's Birthday Honours List. On January 22, 2011, Nash received the title of George Eastman Honorary Scholar at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York.

To the 2011 tribute album Rave on Buddy Holly, Nash contributed a cover of "Raining in My Heart."

Nash announced the new studio album This Path Tonight (his first series of new songs in ten years) on January 22, 2016, and posted the title track from it on MOJO magazine's website. Rolling Stone magazine unveiled a new song from the new album, the reflective "Encore," the tender song that wraps up Nash's new album on February 4th. Following Nash's debut of his latest studio album in April 2016, the Australian artist planned a solo tour starting in Berlin, California, on April 21, 2016.

In September, he was still touring in New Jersey and New York.

Rhino Records released Over The Years, a 30-track compilation of Nash's demos from 1968 to 1980, including excerpts from the CSN debut album "Under Water" and "I Used To Be King" as unreleased mixes on June 29, 2018. "Myself at Last," Nash's solo album This Path Tonight's most recent recording on the compilation, is the most recent on the series. There are 15 demo recordings on this set, 12 of which have never been released.

Nash began to collect photographs in the early 1970s as a child interested in photography. Nash hired Graham Howe as his photography curator after acquiring more than a thousand prints by 1976. A traveling exhibition of selections from the Graham Nash Collection from 1978 to 1984 toured more than a dozen museums around the world. In 1990, Nash decided to sell his 2,000 print series through Sotheby's auction house, where it set a new auction record for a single private collection of photography. According to Nash, some of the auction proceeds would be donated to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for the acquisition of contemporary photographs.

Graham Nash, a facsimiles of his lyrics paired with signed photographs of Graham Nash and published by Nash Editions in 2010, a monograph titled "Love, Graham Nash" was published in 2010.

Nash began experimenting with digital photos of his photography on Macintosh computers with R. Mac Holbert, the tour guide for Crosby, Stills, and Nash, as well as dealing with computer/technical issues for the band at the time. Nash ran into a problem that plagued all personal computers running graphics applications during this period: he could produce very detailed images on the computer but there was no output device (computer printer) capable of reproducing what he saw on the computer screen. At UCLA's JetGraphix digital output center, Nash and Holbert first experimented with early commercial printers that were then becoming available and printing several photos on the large format Fujix inkjet printers. When Fuji decided not to continue servicing the printers, John Bilotta, who was running JetGraphix, recommended that Nash and Holbert try the Iris printer, a new large format continuous-tone inkjet printer manufactured for prepress proofing by IRIS Graphics, Inc. Nash met programmer David Coons, a Disney color engineer who was also using the IRIS printer to print images from Disney's new digital animation software, thanks to IRIS Graphics national sales rep Steve Boulter.

For a 24 April 1990 show at Simon Lowinsky gallery, the coons worked off hours at Disney to produce large photographs of 16 of Nash's photographic portraits on arches watercolour paper. Since the bulk of the original negatives and prints were lost in shipment to a book publisher, Coons had to scan contact sheets and improve the images so they could be printed in large format. He used software he had written to print the photographic images to the IRIS printer, which was a machine that was supposed to work with proprietary prepress computer systems.

Nash bought an IRIS Graphics 3047 inkjet printer in July 1990 and installed it in a tiny carriage house in Manhattan Beach, California, near Los Angeles. It was used by David Coons and Steve Boulter to produce an even larger print of Nash's work for Parco Stores in Tokyo in November 1990. In a limited edition of 50 prints per image, a total of 1,750 images was included in the exhibit entitled Sunlight on Silver. Nash's photographs were on display at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego and elsewhere.

Nash decided to fund Mac Holbert to start a fine art digital-based printing business using the IRIS Graphics 3047 printer, which is found in Nash's Manhattan Beach, California carriage house. Holbert resigned as the road manager for Crosby, Stills, and Nash so that he could run the company. Nash Editions Ltd. was the company's first client on July 1st, 1991. David Coons, John Bilotta, and Jack Duganne, a serigraphic print manufacturer, were among the early workers. They continued to develop the IRIS printer to fine art printing by experimenting with ink sets to try to escape the fast-fading appearance of IRIS prints, and even going further, seeing off part of the printer heads so they could be moved back to thicker printing paper stocks (voiding the $126,000 machine's warranty). Nash and Holbert decided to call their fine art prints "digigraphs," although Jack Duganne coined the word "Giclée" for these prints. The company is still in operation, and currently uses Epson-based large format printers.

Nash donated the original IRIS Graphics 3047 printer and Nash Editions ephemera in 2005 to the National Museum of American History, a Smithsonian Institution.

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