On 81-year-old Graham Nash’s new album Now –a title emphasising his existence as a contemporary artist – there is IWatched It All Come
Down, “making music, playing it loud”. And he did.
Blackpool-born Nash, a longtime Angeleno with little trace of an American accent, was in that wave of British Invasion bands in the wake of the Beatles when the Hollies –which he co-founded with Manchester schoolmate and lifelong friend Allan Clarke –swept up the charts with Just One Look, Here I Go Again, I’m Alive, Bus Stop and a string of top-five hits elevated by the band’s three-part harmonies.
But when his songs were rejected for being too complexjust scraped into the British top 20 –he chafed.
