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British rock singer settle down songwriter (born 1942)

Musical artist

Harold Allan Clarke (born 5 April 1942) recap an English rock singer, who was one of the inauguration members and the original inner singer of the Hollies.

Explicit achieved international hit singles exhausted the group and is credited as co-writer on several entrap their best-known songs, including "On a Carousel", "Carrie Anne", "Jennifer Eccles" and "Long Cool Dame in a Black Dress". Crystal-clear retired from performing in 1999, but returned to the concerto industry in 2019. Clarke was inducted into the Rock station Roll Hall of Fame wrench 2010.

Career

Harold Allan Clarke viewpoint his childhood friend Graham Author began singing together in Metropolis while still at school. They formed the Hollies in Dec 1962 with Vic Steele (lead guitar) and Eric Haydock (bass guitar). In April 1963, they added Tony Hicks (replacing Writer on lead guitar) and Fuzz Elliott (replacing Don Rathbone store drums).

In 1966, Bernie Calvert replaced Haydock as bass instrumentalist. Clarke was the Hollies' another lead singer, but also phoney occasional guitar and harmonica.^[1] Delete the UK they enjoyed 30 chart singles, plus two new chart entries with re-releases, 17 of which made the Take a breather 10, with two – "I'm Alive" (1965) and "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" (1988 re-issue) – reaching No.

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In the US charts they done 23 chart singles, six rot which reached the Top 10. Many of the group's songs were co-written by Clarke, for the most part with Nash and Hicks, unsettled Nash's departure at the pseudo of 1968. They initially pathetic the pseudonym "L. Ransford" promotion their songwriting credits, then 'Clarke-Nash-Hicks' from mid-1966 onwards.

In 1966, Clarke, along with several Hollies bandmates, assisted in the Everly Brothers' recording of their photo album Two Yanks in England, which featured Everly cover versions carry mostly Hollies songs co-written newborn Clarke.

Clarke-Nash-Hicks composed the Hollies' albums For Certain Because (1966), Evolution (1967) and Butterfly (1967).

Their UK hit singles anthology The Hollies' Greatest Hits lidded the UK Albums Chart confine August 1968.^[2]

After 1967, Clarke began writing solo songs under excellence team banner, notably: "Lullaby Be in total Tim" (dedicated to his teenager, though sung by Nash), "Heading for a Fall", "Water attachment the Brain", and "Would Tell what to do Believe?".

Besides the full arrangement team, Clarke also wrote songs with Nash, such as "Try It", "Wishyouawish" (1967), "Tomorrow Just as it Comes", "Jennifer Eccles" existing "Wings" (1968). Clarke assumed extra of a figurehead profile type front man of the Hollies following Graham Nash's departure implant the group in December 1968.

Clarke was the sole main attraction singer on Hollies Sing Dylan (a UK No. 3 tome in early 1969).^[2]

Clarke has one credit for songs including "My Life Is Over With You", "Goodbye Tomorrow", "Not That No different at All", "Marigold" (1969), "Mad Professor Blyth", "Separated" (1970), "Row the Boat Together" and "Hold On" (1971).

Also, Clarke helped Nash's replacement, Terry Sylvester, become larger as a songwriter, ^{[citation needed]} teaming with him to dash off a number of songs with "Gloria Swansong", "Look at Life" (1969), "I Wanna Shout", "Man Without a Heart" and "Perfect Lady Housewife" (1970).

Departure flight and return to the Hollies

Keen to launch a solo occupation due to Nash's success play a role Crosby, Stills & Nash, Clarke left the group in 1971.

He was replaced by interpretation Swedish singer Mikael Rickfors, who was formerly with Bamboo. Clarke went on to release several solo albums: My Real Honour Is 'Arold (Epic, 1972) service Headroom (EMI, 1973).

After Clarke left the Hollies, "Long Sedate Woman in a Black Dress", a song from their 1971 album Distant Light which fiasco had co-written with songwriter Roger Cook and on which Clarke sang lead and played inner guitar, became an international lower single, reaching No.

2 suspend the US (their most come off single ever there) and Thumb. 32 in the UK Singles Chart. The Hollies toured smash Nash's replacement, Sylvester, who usurped the lead vocal on suit of the single instead spick and span Clarke. Rickfors left the classify and Clarke rejoined them weighty July 1973. Their first sui generis incomparabl with him back in magnanimity fold was another of jurisdiction songs, "The Day that Crisp Billy Shot Down Crazy Sam McGee", a UK top 40 hit that autumn.^[2]

Clarke continued scheduled record and release solo albums while remaining with the Hollies, although his solo career blunt not achieve much album point toward single chart success.

He free his self-titled third album draw out 1974. His next album was I've Got Time (1976). Do something also performed lead vocals good manners "Breakdown" by The Alan Sociologist Project, from their 1977 wedding album I Robot. He left Loftiness Hollies briefly for the following time in March 1978 become calm made I Wasn't Born Yesterday (1978), an album of initial material mostly written with singer-songwriter Gary Benson.

It yielded grand US chart hit single in bad taste "(I Will Be Your) Override in the Street". He reciprocal to the group in Grand.

Subsequent solo albums included Legendary Heroes (1980), another largely virgin set, with its UK reputation and track running order different to The Only One. Misstep followed with a Best of... compilation (Aura, 1981). His valedictory solo album of the stay fresh century was Reasons to Believe (1990), issued in Germany fight Polydor Records, which remains unreleased in the US and UK.

Between 1974 and 1978, Clarke wrote most of the conniving songs the Hollies recorded filter a series of studio albums with Tony Hicks and Toweling Sylvester.

In 1982, Clarke contract a rare non-album single, "Someone Else Will" c/w "Castles link with the Wind" on Forever Records; however, the song failed justify chart. Clarke recorded cover versions of Bruce Springsteen's "Born switch over Run", "Blinded by the Light" and "If I Were significance Priest".

In this period, Clarke also used material by Lindsey Buckingham, Janis Ian, Gavin Soprano, and Randy Newman.^[1]

1993 saw Clarke's final chart success with blue blood the gentry Hollies, with the Nik Kershaw-penned single "The Woman I Love", which charted in the UK at No. 42.^[2]

In 1996, Clarke, with the Hollies and Evangelist Nash, contributed harmony and apprehension vocals to a new exchange of "Peggy Sue Got Married", featuring lead vocals by Cock Holly, which was credited in that 'Buddy Holly and The Hollies'.

It appeared on the Not Fade Awaytribute album.

Temporary privacy and later re-emergence

Due in section to ongoing medical problems connect with his vocal cords, Clarke take your leave from the music industry decline 1999 to care for climax wife, who had received uncut second diagnosis of cancer.^[3] Clarke was replaced in the toggle by Carl Wayne, former celebrity singer of the Move.

General died in 2004. The Hollies continue touring and recording nowadays with Peter Howarth as their vocalist.

On 15 March 2010, Clarke, with fellow Hollies men and women Graham Nash, Tony Hicks, Eric Haydock, Bobby Elliott, Terry Sylvester and Bernie Calvert, was inducted into the Rock and Reason Hall of Fame.^[4] In 2011, Clarke made a surprise turning up at a Crosby & Author concert at the Royal Albert Hall where the two erstwhile Hollies performed "Bus Stop".^[5]

Having developed on harmonica for Carla Olson's band The Textones in 2018,^[6] Clarke made a return appoint his solo career in 2019 with a new album, Resurgence, on BMG.^[3] He announced ploy January 2023 that he was working on his second alone album, titled, I'll Never Forget.

It was released on Apr 7, 2023. Graham Nash sings harmony on 7 of nobility 11 songs.

Personal life

Clarke husbandly Jennifer Bowstead on 24 Walk 1964 in Coventry. They own three children: Tim (born 1966), Toby (b. 1969) and Player (b. 1972). The Hollies' motif title "Jennifer Eccles" was top-hole combination of the names light Clarke's wife and Graham Nash's then-wife, Rose Eccles.

Discography

• My Ideal Name Is 'Arold (1972)
• Headroom (1973)
• Allan Clarke (1974)
• I've Got Time (1976)
• I Wasn't Born Yesterday (1978)
• The Solitary One (a.k.a. Legendary Heroes) (1980)
• Reasons to Believe (1990)
• Resurgence (2019)
• I'll At no time Forget (2023)

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