Rather than create our own Hollies page, we thought you might prefer to visit some of the many Hollies sites!
 The Hollies Official UK Page - the main Hollies site. Lots of good info, see whats happening with the band now as well as in the 60s.
On-line Hollies Club - this is a Yahoo message board
Not a Hollies site but may be of interest. German pop project ET CETERA teamed up with ALLAN CLARKE
Manchester memories of the Hollies
I worked for about a year at a "cash/credit" store called Washington's on Deansgate, with the entrance on Queen St in 1965.
Graham Nash and Alan Clarke both met and worked there in the early 60s and left just before I started.
Their first record was called "Just like me". I bought a copy from Bakers & Sons TV and Record shop on Ashton New Rd in 1964. That record was the worst record I ever bought. Probably why it's never mentioned anywhere.
Alan Clarke's "mam", worked at Washington's as the tea lady. Big urn of tea very sugary and I remember, for the 10-10.30am break and the 3-3.30pm break. She always had a fag on, with the ash bending at the end and at least once I caught it falling gently into the tea she was stirring up.
I remember Alan Clarke and his sister coming into the store after he had just got back from a successful tour of America, sometime in 1965. I asked him for his autograph, but I lost it the same day.
Mike Barlow
Allan Clarke and Graham Nash's first band was The Two Teens (1955): Allan Clarke vocals; Graham Nash guitar, vocals.
The Guytones (1956): Allan Clark vocals; Graham Nash guitar, vocals.
Tony Hicks's first band was Les Skiflettes (1956): Tony Hicks guitar; Patrick Belshaw vocals; Harold Russell + four others. Then Hicks and Belshaw went to Ricky Shaw and the Dalphins.
The Two Tones (1959): Allan Clarke vocals; Graham Nash guitar, vocals.
The Sidekicks (1956): Butch Mepham vocals, guitar; Derek Crew vocals, guitar; Derek Peirce tea-chest bass; Derek Bentley washboard.
The Meteors Skiffle Group (1956 - earl 1958): Butch Mepham vocals, guitar; George Owen guitar; Tom Mangan tea-chest bass; Brian Lowe snare drums.
Johnny Peters and the Jets (formed early 1958): Butch Mepham bass (Hofner President); Derek Quinn lead guitar; Joe Abrahams drums (earl 1958 - c late 1959); Pete Bocking guitar (earl 1958 - c late 1959); Johnny Peters vocals, lead guitar (born Barry James).
The Fourtones (Ricky Young and the Fourtones) (c late 1959): Allan Clarke (Ricky Young) vocals; Graham Nash guitar, vocals; Butch Mepham bass (born John Mepham, 27.7.1941, in Manchester, Lancashire); Joe Abrahams drums; Pete Bocking guitar; Derek Quinn lead guitar (born 24.5.1942, in Manchester, Lancashire) (later in Freddie and the Dreamers); Keith Bates drums; Terry Morton lead guitar.
Bobby Elliott's first band was Gerry Storm and the Falcons (1959): Bobby Elliott drums; Gerry Storm vocals; Ronnie Bullock guitar; Tony Beharrel bass; Kevin Foster guitar. Then Elliott and the rest of the band except Storm went to Eddie Morton and the Falcons.
Eddie Morton and the Falcons (1960): Bobby Elliott drums; Eddie Morton vocals; Ronnie Bullock guitar; Tony Beharrel bass; Kevin Foster guitar.
The Bob Price Quartet (1960 - 1962): Bobby Elliott drums; Bob Price trumpet; Jimmy Holt alto sax; Alan Thacker piano; Alan Cooper double bass.It seems Elliott was in this band the same time as he was in Gerry Storm / Eddie Morton and the Falcons.
Bernie Calvert's first band was Ricky Shaw and the Dolphins (1958 - 1960, 1961): Tony Hicks lead guitar (1958 - 1960, 1961); Patrick Belshaw vocals (1958 1960, 1961); Bernie Calvert bass (1958 - 1960, 1961); Alan Buck drums (1958 - 1960) (born 7.4.1943, in Brierfield, Lancashire) (later in Joe Brown and the Bruvvers, Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, The Lionel Morton Four, The Four Pennies); John Robert Shaw rhythm guitar (1961); Bobby Elliott drums (1961).
Don Rathbone's first band was The Electrons (1960 - 1962): Don Rathbone drums plus remaining personnel unknown.
Shane Fenton and the Fentones: Shane Fenton vocals; Shane Fenton vocals; Mickey Aire rhythm guitar; Bonny bass; Jerry Wilcox lead guitar; Bobby Elliott drums (1962).
The Dolphins (1962): Tony Hicks lead guitar; Bernie Calvet lead guitar; Bobby Elliott drums; Patrick Belshaw vocals.
Ricky and Dane Young (1960): Ricky Young (Allan Clarke) vocals; Dane Young (Graham Nash) vocals, guitar.
Kirk Daniels and the Deltas (1960): Allan Clarke (Ricky) vocals; Graham Nash (Dane) guitar, vocals; Eric Haydock bass; Kirk Daniels vocals;
The Dominators of Rhythm (1962): Graham Nash guitar, vocals; Allan Clark vocals; Eric Haydock bass; Don Rathbone drums; Vic Farrell lead guitar.
The Hollies (formed Dec 1962, in Manchester, Lancashire): Bobby Elliott (born Robert Hartley Elliott, 8.12.1941, at 13 Chilton Avenue, Bolton, Lancashire); Graham Nash (born Graham William Nash, 2.2.1942, in Blackpool, Lancashire); Allan Clarke (born Harold Allan Clarke, 5.4.1942, in Salford, Lancashire); Bernard Calvert (born Bernard Bamford Calvert, 16.9.1942, in Brierield, Lancashire); Don Rathbone (born Donald Rathbone, 10.1942, in Wilmslow, Cheshire); Eric Haydock (born 3.2.1943, in Burnley, Lancashire); Tony Hicks (born Anthony Christopher Hicks, 16.12.1943, in Nelson, Lancashire).
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