Photo: Pop group Hollies cheering in Stockport. June 1965 © Mirrorpix
Our main pic this week shows Salford band The Hollies jumping for joy at Stockport after learning that their single I’m Alive topped the UK charts. It is June 1965.
The cheering band members from left are guitarist and singer Graham Nash, lead singer Allan Clarke, lead guitarist Tony Hicks, drummer Bobby Elliott and bass guitarist Eric Haydock.
The pop group Hollies in a cheering mood in Stockport. June 1965 © Mirrorpix
The single I’m Alive was written by the American songwriter Clint Ballard Jr.
It spent three weeks at number one in the UK and was a chart topper in Ireland as well.
I’m Alive did less well in the US, reaching # 84 on the Cash Box singles chart in July 1965.
The single was also on the US version of Hollies’ album Hear! Here!
Oddly enough, the Hollies originally rejected the song and gave it to another Manchester band called the Toggery Five. When the Hollies heard their version, they recorded it themselves.
Hollies drummer Bobby Elliott paid a visit to the new GRAMMY Museum exhibition in Liverpool. October 2014 © Mirrorpix
Our modern picture from October 2014 shows drummer Bobby Elliott almost half a century later at the age of 72 at the GRAMMY Museum exhibition in Liverpool.
The event highlighted the invasion of the American music scene in the 1960s by British bands like the Hollies, Beatles, Kinks and the Rolling Stones.
Elliott stands in front of Hollies’ memorabilia that he personally borrowed for the show, including a 1960 Biba shirt, album covers and a Ludwig 400 snare drum that he played on most of the group’s records.
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