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The Hollies
Band Lancashire United Kingdom Formed 1963
The Hollies formed in 1963 in Lancashire, United Kingdom. The Hollies has 45 chart appearances on 43 radio countdowns from 26 stations on RockLists, spanning 1982–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Long Cool Woman”, which appears on 41 lists with a best position of #74. The station that charted The Hollies most often is Q104.3 (New York, NY), with 5 appearances.
The Hollies were one of the great British singles bands of the '60s and '70s, and they did it with a seemingly bottomless supply of hooks. Allan Clarke and Graham Nash started it, with Tony Hicks on lead guitar and Eric Haydock on bass; Bobby Elliott took over the drums in late 1963 and Bernie Calvert replaced Haydock in mid-1966. Clarke, Hicks and Nash wrote most of the early originals between them.
The hits came in a torrent: "Just One Look", "Here I Go Again", "Look Through Any Window" and "I'm Alive", their first number one in Britain. America took until "Bus Stop" in 1966 to catch on, and after that the hits crossed the Atlantic in both directions: "Stop Stop Stop", "On a Carousel", "Carrie Anne", "King Midas in Reverse". Nash left in late 1968 to form Crosby, Stills & Nash, Terry Sylvester stepped in, and the band barely broke stride: "Sorry Suzanne", "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother", "Gasoline Alley Bred". Mikael Rickfors briefly took Clarke's place in the early '70s, a stretch that sits around "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress", a swampy, strutting rocker that sounds like nothing else in their catalog, and "The Air That I Breathe" in 1974 proved the ballad touch was intact.
They charted more than 30 singles in Britain and 22 on the Billboard Hot 100, never broke up, and in 2010 the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame came calling. They finally came off the road in 2026.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by The Hollies on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Long Cool Woman | 41 | #74 | – | – | |
| 2 | Carrie Anne | 1 | #789 | – | – | |
| 3 | Bus Stop | 1 | #611 | – | – | |
| 4 | King Midas in Reverse | 1 | #1164 | – | – | |
| 5 | The Air That I Breathe | 1 | #728 | – | – |
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