HEAR! HEAR! THE HOLLIES 20 YEARS ON: Unfinished Business
“I don’t know what to say about the whole 20 years. After the first year, after the first record, people would say, ‘Well you’re doing fine now, but how long do you think it’s gonna last?’ People are still asking me that and every tomorrow is a bonus as far as I’m concerned.
HEAR! HEAR! THE HOLLIES 20 YEARS ON: Unfinished Business
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“I don’t know what to say about the whole 20 years. After the first year, after the first record, people would say, ‘Well you’re doing fine now, but how long do you think it’s gonna last?’ People are still asking me that and every tomorrow is a bonus as far as I’m concerned. We started off doing a hobby and getting paid for it, which is incredible. We’re very lucky guys! It’s luck and fate. We’ve been lucky so many bloody times and we seem to just get luckier.”
The thankful, modest speaker is Bobby Elliott, drummer on nearly 30 hits over two decades. Sitting with him in a comfortable
New York hotel suite are his exuberant Manchester mates Allan Clarke, Graham “Willie” Nash and Tony Hicks—the reunited, original Hollies (minus bass players Eric Haydock and Bernie Calvert). They pace, jump about, gesticulate vividly and interrupt each other with abandon. They are—very clearly—happy to be together again, happy to have recorded together again and proud of the fruit of those labors, What Goes Around..., happy to be going on the road together again. Happy.