33 1/3 minutes with... Allan Clarke
Record Collector|June 2023
Allan Clarke co-founded The Hollies with school friend Graham Nash. Between 1963, the year they started, and 1968 when Nash left to form Crosby, Stills & Nash, they notched up nine Top 5 singles including Just One Look, Here I Go Again and I’m Alive, their first of two No 1s.
By Lois Wilson
33 1/3 minutes with... Allan Clarke

Their post-Nash successes, meanwhile, included 1969’s Sorry Suzanne and He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother (their second No 1 when reissued in 1988) and 1974’s The Air I Breathe. By then, Clarke was also recording as a solo artist with 1978’s (I Will Be Your) Shadow In The Street making waves in the US. In 1999, he retired but returned in 2019 with his album Resurgence. Its follow-up, I’ll Never Forget, reunites him with Nash. “We’ve come full circle,” he says. “It’s good to be back.”

How did you and Graham Nash get back together?

I gave Graham a lifetime achievement award [at the 2019 UK Americana Awards] at Hackney Empire and that was very emotional. He didn’t know I was going to present him with it. We both said really nice things about each other and after that we said we really should do something together again. I played him Resurgence, which he liked, and we said it again, and then I wrote I’ll Never Forget about me and him, about the “will we or won’t we?” I sent it to him, he loved it. Fast forward, we finally did, and I’ve got an album of songs with us singing harmonies together. Our voices blend nicely.

Buddy’s Back is the single.

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