• The Hollies appeared on the BBC’s very first ‘Top of the Pops’ on New Years Day 1964, with The Stones, Dusty Springfield and The Beatles.

• The Hollies pioneered the use of the three-way vocal harmony in Pop Music.

• The Hollies were innovators. Unusual instrumentation was often used during the production of their records at Abbey Road - including banjo, tubular bells, celesta, glockenspiel and bagpipes.

• Carrie Anne is the first hit record to feature real steel drums.

• ‘Hollies - More hits than any other British group’. The 1978 Guinness Book of British Hit Singles.

• Friend and colleague Graham Nash left The Hollies in December 1968 to form super group ‘Crosby Stills and Nash’ in Los Angeles.

• Elton John played piano on several Hollies recordings, including ‘He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother’  in 1969.

• In 1988 ‘He Ain't Heavy’ was re-released, and went straight to #1 in the UK.

• 1993 and The Hollies were presented with The Ivor Novello Award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to British Music’

• The Hollies were inducted into American Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame in March 2010,  for their 'Impact on the Evolution, Development and Perpetuation of Rock and Roll'.

The Justice Collective.
Tony Hicks and Bobby Elliott were proud to be present at the making of the charity fund raising music video in aid of the Liverpool families who lost loved ones in the Hillsborough football disaster. The 2012 Christmas Charts, and Hollies anthem - ‘He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother’ - featuring, amongst others, Robbie Williams and Paul McCartney, is Top of the Pops yet again.

THE HOLLIES

Tony Hicks, Ray Stiles, Peter Howarth, Steve Lauri, Ian Parker and Bobby Elliott