Title: The Hollies – The Hollies' Greatest Hits
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1967, Rock, Beat Pop, Manchester
Matrix #: LP-9350
Condition: EX(VZ)
Cultural Facts:
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Personal Struggle Graham Nash was already growing frustrated with the band’s tighter pop limits and pushing for more ambitious writing, tension that would soon help push him out.
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Band Drama This comp catches the Clarke-Hicks-Nash peak before the group’s internal split over direction turned into Nash leaving in late 1968.
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Scene Ecology It packages the run that made the Hollies one of the strongest British harmony-hit bands of the 60s, right as singles still drove the market harder than albums.