Great looking band just pure talent have a big crush on Tony Hicks and his smile just melts me .Play their songs every day ,I like them better than the Beatles ❤
This just flat out rocks, but it does more than that...it truly cooks. There are a lot of tunes that rock, but few of them cook. The fantastic Allen Clarke can do it all. Bobby's drumming is a real unique treat, and Tony's guitar playing is always very very tasteful. Together as a unit, they are still tops and always but always so very musical. I can't get enough of these guys, and I try to make sure I hear a bit of them every day. The Hollies are a real upper!
This is just a fun and cool song!! You can tell they’re all really enjoying performing it as well!! Each person is perfecting their part to come together for a fun masterpiece!! I have to have a daily dose of The Hollies too!! ❤❤
Always played this rocker when people asked me to play "Long Cool Woman." Never got any complaints and it saved me from having to hear "Long Cool" for the ten hundreth time!
Adore the Hollies and was lucky enough to have met them when I bought one of their guitars. Currently playing their greatest hits in the car but keep going back to this track as it has in my opinion one of the greatest intros ever. So simple but so joyful the way it builds. Thank you for so much great music 🙏🎸
I genuinely cannot recall the make as I sold it on years ago to a memorabilia company but it was a classical guitar and used for the solo on ‘Too young to be married’ & ‘We’re through’ as well as an album they recorded as a tribute to Buddy Holly 😊
Man, i wish the hollies kept making songs in this style, they could have picked up where CCR left off, and we could had another 4 or 5 more years of great music
I'm 42 years old my parents played the hollies a lot growing up and I've always loved them my wish would be to see them like this ,they are an absolute class act of a band and I know it's been said before but they don't make them like this anymore ,for me it's so about how a band sounds live and the hollies nail it every time Allan Clarke had a real gift and so did the others even with this line you without Graham Nash they are superb.
Better known as Shot Down, for those of us who always thought the complete title was a bit much. That notwithstanding, and despite the inevitable howls of indignation from the purists, for my money, this remains the Hollies' finest moment. Some will say, "It's a copy of their previous two singles!!" Not really. It's more like those two earlier singles were rehearsal for this shining example of absolute, utter perfection!
@@brandoncolis3841 Good question. They weren't the immediate previous two singles, but there was a common thread perceived among some with Long Cool Woman and (to a lesser extent) Long Dark Road. For my money, this track (which some of us know as Shot Down) has it all over both of those singles. Allan Clarke is on fire vocally, and the guitar work is just far more commanding here.
Great song and even better clip from top of the pops!! Many thanks for including Noel Edmonds's bits at the beginning and end, he was probably at the peak of his powers at Radio 1 then, I think he was doing the Breakfast show and was 2 or 3 years away from Swap Shop. Anyway, I've really come to appreciate this song - I'm not sure if it's the stomping chorus or Tony's guitar playing that keeps bringing me back to it. Like Gasoline Alley Bred, I'm surprised that it wasn't a much bigger hit in the UK as it has all the constituent parts of a very successful song (catchy tune/lyrics coupled with brilliant harmonies and musicianship). It's a shame that the Hollies 1970's stuff is often overlooked in favour of the Nash era recordings IMHO.......
GREAT, GREAT song! Never heard it back in the day, but I love it, thanks so much for the post. Happy, great looking band playing here. It may seem similar to Long Cool Woman to others, but I think it is only because of guitar intro. Other than that, it is a rocking fun,fun song. I'm thrilled with this!
I'm still listening! This should have been a much bigger hit. In response to one DJ's prediction that it would go "up and up and up" it actually went "down and down and down" (chart positions 24, 26, 28 and 30 in successive weeks).
Just discovered this even though I've always liked the Hollies, what happens though is that I overdo listening to it and end up being sick of the sound of it
fred dell pudieron, pero se empezaron a pelear y todo se fue al carajo, por eso, pienso que cuando Graham Nash salió de la banda... la armonía que los caracterizaba también se rompió....
