![]() They briefly reunited from 1973 to 1974 and Davis restarted a new group in 2006.Īre an American rock band from San Jose, California. ![]() ![]() After releasing a few more singles, the band ceased activity in 1968. Steve Winwood left in 1967 to form Traffic before joining Blind Faith, then forging a career as a solo artist. Their best known songs include the UK number ones “Somebody Help Me” and “Keep on Running” (both written by reggae musician Jackie Edwards), “I’m a Man” and “Gimme Some Lovin'”, which reached #2 in the UK and #7 in the US. Traffic were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.Īre a British beat and R&B band formed in Birmingham in 1963, by Spencer Davis with Steve Winwood and his brother, Muff Winwood. A partial reunion, with Winwood and Capaldi, took place in 1994. The band’s line-up varied from this point until they disbanded again in 1974. Traffic disbanded in 1969, during which time Winwood joined Blind Faith, then reunited in 1970 to release the critically acclaimed album John Barleycorn Must Die. Their first three singles were “Paper Sun”, “Hole in My Shoe”, and “Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush”. They began as a psychedelic rock group and diversified their sound through the use of instruments such as keyboards like the Mellotron and harpsichord, sitar, and various reed instruments, and by incorporating jazz and improvisational techniques in their music. Were an English rock band, formed in Birmingham, in April 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason. In recognition of their achievements, the Hollies were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. They are one of the few British groups of the early 1960s, along with the Rolling Stones, that have never disbanded and continue to record and perform. The Hollies had over 30 charting singles on the UK Singles Chart, and 22 on the Billboard Hot 100, with major hits on both sides of the Atlantic that included “Just One Look”, “Look Through Any Window”, “I Can’t Let Go”, “Bus Stop”, “Stop Stop Stop”, “On a Carousel”, “Carrie Anne”, “Jennifer Eccles”, and later “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother”, “Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress”, and “The Air That I Breathe”. They enjoyed considerable popularity in many countries (at least 60 singles or EPs and 26 albums charting somewhere in the world, spanning over five decades), although they did not achieve major US chart success until 1966 with “Bus Stop”. Graham Nash left the group in 1968 to form the supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash. ![]() It was formed by Allan Clarke and Graham Nash in 1962 as a Merseybeat-type music group in Manchester, although some of the band members came from towns north of there. The Hollies became one of the leading British groups of the 1960s (231 weeks on the UK singles charts during the 1960s, the 9th highest of any artist of the decade) and into the mid 1970s. Buffalo Springfield was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.Īre a British pop/rock group best known for their pioneering and distinctive three-part vocal harmony style. Furay, along with Jim Messina, went on to form the country-rock band Poco. Neil Young launched his solo career and later joined Stills in Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in 1969. Stephen Stills went on to form the supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash with David Crosby of the Byrds and Graham Nash of the Hollies. Their second album, Buffalo Springfield Again, marked their progression to psychedelia and hard rock.Īfter various drug-related arrests and line-up changes, the group broke up in 1968. The following January, the group released the protest song “For What It’s Worth”, for which they are now best known. The band signed to Atlantic Records in 1966 and released their debut single “Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing”, which became a hit in Los Angeles. With a name taken from a brand of steamroller, Buffalo Springfield formed in Los Angeles in 1966 with Stills (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Dewey Martin (drums, vocals), Bruce Palmer (electric bass), Furay (guitar, vocals), and Young (guitar, harmonica, piano, vocals). The band combined elements of folk and country music with British invasion and psychedelic-rock influences, and, along with the Byrds, were part of the early development of folk-rock. The band released three albums and several singles, including “For What It’s Worth”. Was a Canadian-American rock band active from 1966 to 1968 whose most prominent members were Stephen Stills, Neil Young, and Richie Furay.
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