Hollies (1974 album)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hollies
Studio album by The Hollies
Released	March 1974
Genre	Rock/Pop
Length	41:42
Label	Polydor, Epic
The Hollies chronology
Out on the Road (1973) Hollies (1974) Another Night (1975)

Hollies is a 1974 album by the English pop-rock band The Hollies. The centerpiece is the band's classic cover of Albert Hammond's ballad "The Air That I Breathe," a major worldwide hit that year.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Side 1 1.2 Side 2 2 Singles 3 Trivia

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side 1

1. "Falling Calling" (Clarke/Sylvester)
2. "It's a Shame, It's a Game" (Hicks/Horton-Jennings)
3. "Don't Let Me Down" (Clarke)
4. "Out on the Road" (Hicks/Lynch)
5. "The Air That I Breathe" (Hammond/Hazlewood)

[edit] Side 2

1. "Rubber Lucy" (Clarke)
2. "Transatlantic West Bound Jet" (Elliot/Sylvester)
3. "Pick Up the Pieces Again" (Sylvester)
4. "Down on the Run" (Hicks/Horton-Jennings)
5. "Love Makes the World Go Round" (Clarke/Sylvester)
6. "The Day That Curly Billy Shot Down Crazy Sam McGee" (Clarke)

[edit] Singles

"The Air That I Breathe" was a worldwide hit which was received very well.

Another single from the album, The Day That Curly Billy Shot Down Crazy Sam McGee, was a top 30 British hit that revived the guitar driven rock of "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress".

[edit] Trivia

Hollies was the first Hollies album to feature Allan Clarke on lead vocals since 1971's Distant Light.

The tracks Out on the Road, Pick Up The Pieces Again, and Transatlantic West Bound Jet, were released a year earlier on the German only release Out on the Road (Hansa 87119IT) but featured Swedish vocalist Mikael Rickfors who had replaced Clarke for two albums, Romany and Out on the Road.

This song also apears on "the Virgin Suicides"a film by Sofia Coppola in the Movie The Album featured Alan Parsons as engineer.