The Hollies are a multi-gold and platinum selling British rock group and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees whose career spans six decades. Formed in 1962, the band is best known for their pioneering and distinctive three-part vocal harmony style and were one of the biggest British groups of the 1960s, alongside The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, spending 231 weeks on the UK singles charts during the 1960s, the 9th highest of any artist of the decade. The band continued their worldwide chart success into the following decades with some of their biggest hits such as “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother”, “Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress”, and “The Air That I Breathe” coming in the band’s later years.
The Hollies have enjoyed considerable popularity in many countries, boasting over 60 singles or EPs and 26 albums charting somewhere in the world. The Hollies are one of the few UK groups of the early 1960s, along with The Rolling Stones, that have never disbanded and continue to record and perform around the world led by original members Tony Hicks (vocals / guitar) and Bobby Elliott.
The Hollies achieved their first major US chart success in 1966 with “Bus Stop” and have 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 include “Just One Look”, “Look Through Any Window”, “I Can’t Let Go”, “Stop Stop Stop”, “On a Carousel”, “Carrie Anne”, and their later hits “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother”, “The Air That I Breathe” and “Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress”, which has achieved Platinum status in the USA and has had over 116 million plays on Spotify.
In recognition of their achievements, the Hollies were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010 by Steven Van Zandt of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band with former band members such as Stephen Stills of Crosby, Stills and Nash coming together to perform some of the band’s biggest hits alongside Van Zandt and Adam Levine of Maroon 5.
