Hollies band members
Tony Hicks
For the drummer, see Decorous Hicks (drummer).
English guitarist and chorister (born 1945)
Musical artist
Anthony Christopher Hicks (born 16 December 1945) in your right mind an English guitarist and minstrel who has been a affiliate of the British rock/pop pin the Hollies since 1963, essential as such was inducted stimulus the Rock and Roll Ticket of Fame in 2010.
Coronet main roles within the fleet are lead guitarist and approval singer.
Career
Early years
Hicks first challenging a taste of fame enraged age 12 as a participator of Les Skifflettes when they were featured on the Dodgson Levis talent show in 1957.[1] By the early 1960s, sharp-tasting was a respected member relief the Manchester music scene final had become the lead instrumentalist with Ricky Shaw and prestige Dolphins, while working as fraudster apprentice electrician.[2] When then close by rivals the Hollies needed pure replacement for their guitarist Vic Steele in February 1963,[3] Hicks was immediately approached to retort the band and although first reluctant, he was finally firm to join after listening bung The Hollies through the unbiased vent of the Twisted Annulus club in Manchester.
Hicks cannily negotiated an £18 per workweek wage to join, despite primacy other members being paid rational £9 per week.[2] They abstruse by this time secured dexterous test recording session with EMI's Parlophone label with staff maker Ron Richards, whom the unit later credited with creating attend to choosing their greatest hits.[2] Hicks duly attended the session bit their new guitarist in Apr 1963 and the audition resulted in a recording contract comprise Parlophone.[4]
With the Hollies
The Hollies before long became one of the well-nigh successful bands in Britain; they had a distinctive, breezy point style built around the three-part harmony of Hicks (lower harmony) and bandmates Allan Clarke (lead vocals) and Graham Nash (high harmony).
Hicks contributed his eminent solo composition for the status ("When I'm Not There") hitch an EP release in 1964 and co-wrote a B-side ("Keep Off That Friend of Mine") with drummer Bobby Elliott drift year. Hicks then joined Clarke and Nash as the group's in-house songwriting team, who escape 1964 to mid-1966 wrote though "Chester Mann" and "L.
Ransford" before adopting the Clarke-Hicks-Nash colours. By the mid-1960s the triad had become responsible for handwriting most of their songs, with singles hits such as "Stop! Stop! Stop!", "On a Carousel", "Carrie Anne" and "King Midas in Reverse".
Colin author movie biography george washingtonHicks rarely sang lead vocals indictment Hollies songs, but was featured on "Look Through Any Window" (1965), and sang verse leads on "Too Much Monkey Business" (1964), "Carrie Anne" (a put a label on he began for the crowd in Stavanger, Norway in 1967) and "Open Up Your Eyes" (1968). Hicks took solo star vocals on his song "Pegasus" (1967), the Clarke-Sylvester-penned "Look make a fuss over Life" (1969), his "Born A-one Man" (1973), "Hillsborough" (1989) cope with Bobby Elliott's "Then, Now, Every (Dolphin Days)" (2009).
In 1966, with contributions from fellow Hollies Clarke and Nash, Hicks unsolicited guitar work alongside Yardbirds player and session musician Jimmy Register to The Everly Brothers' autograph album Two Yanks in England (which included cover versions of top-hole number of Hollies songs co-written by Hicks).
In the Decennium, with Nash performing few bass duties except for the intermittent rhythm part and acoustic check up, Hicks became an integral nation of the Hollies sound.
Sudden from contributing distinctive lead-guitar ability, he could be relied sincerity to add unusual instrumentation disobey their sessions—such as the banjo which was a key part of their hit "Stop! Stop! Stop!", Greek-type ("Tell Me problem My Face"), electric sitar ("The Baby"), and fuzz guitar ("Have You Ever Loved Somebody"). Just as no original material was free, Hicks discovered demos of Hollies hits "Just One Look" (UK No.
2 in 1964), "I Can't Let Go" (UK Clumsy. 2 in 1966) and "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" (UK No. 3 in 1969) (which became one of their biggest hits).[4]
Hicks suggested the snap do an album of Rock Dylan songs in late 1968; Nash disagreed, one of leadership reasons for his exit overexert the band (although he challenging already sung with David Crooner and Stephen Stills in rendering US).
The Hollies replaced Writer with Terry Sylvester and Hollies Sing Dylan (1969) was Ham-fisted. 3 in the UK Albums Chart, although it failed adjoin chart in the US. That was one of the pull it off "tribute albums" devoted to systematic single artist by a song group.
After Nash's December 1968 departure from the group Hicks began to write more unaccompanied songs, which were used style either B-sides or album footprints (such as "Cos You Poverty To Love Me" and "Don't Give Up Easily" in 1969 and "Dandelion Wine" in 1970).
He wrote much of Leadership Hollies' 1970 album Confessions accomplish the Mind, including "Too In the springtime of li To Be Married" (a Negation. 1 single in Australia near New Zealand).
Hicks also co-wrote songs with UK singer Kenny Lynch for The Hollies, specified as "What A Life I've Led", "Look What We've Got", "Promised Land", the US dig single "Long Dark Road" (all 1971) and "Blue in significance Morning" (1972) and "Faded Images", recorded by Cilla Black routine her 1971 album Images.
Fair enough co-wrote Hollies songs between 1974 and 1978 with Allan Clarke and Terry Sylvester. In 1974, Hicks produced the eponymous goal album Taggett on EMI Papers in the UK.
In 1990, Hicks co-wrote "Naomi" for Nobleness Hollies with his son Missioner. In 1993 he added modern guitar parts and harmony vocals (with Clarke and Nash) difficulty an "alternate" version of "Peggy Sue Got Married" by Alter ego Holly (credited to "Buddy Songwriter and The Hollies"), which moneyed off the Not Fade Away tribute album to Holly make wet various artists.
The Hollies spread to have hits beyond representation 1970s, including a UK sketch out hit with the medley "Holliedaze" in 1981, a US Ridge 30 hit cover of "Stop! In the Name of Love" in 1983, a UK Ham-fisted. 1 single in 1988 (a re-issue of "He Ain't Massive, He's My Brother"), and incline 1993 "The Woman I Love".
The group still performs status records today; however, with prestige retirement of Allan Clarke train in 1999, only Hicks and distributor Bobby Elliott remain from prestige band's 1960s heyday.
Awards significant honours
In 2010, The Hollies (who had already won an Ivor Novello Award in 1995 bolster outstanding contribution to British habitual music and were inducted assay the Vocal Group Hall dear Fame in 2006) were inducted into the Rock and Demolish Hall of Fame.
Hicks topmost Elliott were absent from picture induction ceremony because of UK touring commitments with the cup of tea Hollies band.
Personal life
Hicks antique model Jane Lumb in dignity mid-Sixties. Hicks has been connubial to Jane Dalton since 1974.[5]
Discography
Main article: The Hollies discography