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Graham William Nash,  (born 2 February 1942) is  known for his light tenor voice and for his songwriting contributions with the British pop group The Hollies, and with the super group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Nash is also a photography collector and a published photographer. Nash was inducted to 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. Happy Birthday!

Graham Nash Talks Music, great in-depth interview:

Feb 02: Graham Nash was born in 1942

In the early 1960s he was co-founder with school friend Allan Clarke of The Hollies. Nash was a leading ‘group figurehead’ member of The Hollies, one of the UK’s most successful pop and “British Invasion” groups.  Nash wrote or co-wrote many of the band’s original songs, most often early on in collaboration with Allan Clarke and then together with Tony Hicks up to Nash’s departure from the band in December 1968.

Teach your Children:

Nash initially met both David Crosby and Stephen Stills in 1966 among a group of American musician friends during a Hollies USA tour. In 1968, after a further visit to the US during which he met David Crosby in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, California, Nash left The Hollies to form a new group with Crosby and Stephen Stills. A threesome at first, Crosby, Stills & Nash later became a foursome with Neil Young: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY). With them, Nash went on to even greater worldwide success.

Simple Man (Sep, 2013):

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young lasted long enough as a performing unit for one major national tour and a live follow-up album before the members went their separate ways. Nash emerged from the chaos of the quartet’s demise as a star in his own right and found a major audience for his music. There have been quite a few reunions.

The album of the day is his solo debut, Songs for beginners from 1971:

Other 2 February:

Stanley Getz (February 2, 1927 – June 6, 1991) was an American jazz saxophone player. Getz was known as “The Sound” because of his warm, lyrical tone, his prime influence being the wispy, mellow timbre of his idol, Lester Young. Coming to prominence in the late 1940s with Woody Herman’s big band, Getz is described by critic Scott Yanow as “one of the all-time great tenor saxophonists”. Getz went on to perform in bebop, cool jazz and third stream, but is perhaps best known for popularizing bossa nova, as in the worldwide hit single “The Girl from Ipanema” (1964).

 

Leonard Cohen released the album, I’m your Man in 1988.

I’m Your Man is the eighth studio album by Leonard Cohen,^[4] released in 1988. The album marked Cohen’s further move to a more modern sound, with many songs having a synth pop production.

“First We Take Manhattan” had been released the previous year by Jennifer Warnes on her album of Cohen songs, Famous Blue Raincoat. The song “Everybody Knows” was one of Cohen’s first writing collaborations with Sharon Robinson, who would become a frequent collaborator in the future. Most notably, Robinson co-wrote every song on Cohen’s 2001 outing Ten New Songs. In “Tower of Song”, Cohen discusses songwriting and acknowledges the influence of Hank Williams (“a hundred floors above me”).

 

– Hallgeir

(Sources: Wikipedia, Allmusic.com)