“I realized that if you could pick up a guitar and play two-to-three chords-first of all, you were one of the popular members of the party that was going on,” the 80-year-old Blackpool, England-born Nash tells American Songwriter. And Nash is celebrating many of the best tunes on his new live album, Graham Nash: Live, which is set to release on Friday (May 6). He’s created his own hits throughout the years in various bands like the Hollies and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
Now, seven decades later, Nash is still wielding a six-string and still writing music. This, of course, spurred the desire to play the guitar. But through Radio Luxembourg, Nash could hear the songs of Buddy Holly, the Everly Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, and Fats Domino fill his room. Nash had started taking his first images around 11. He was about 13 years old and had already enjoyed work as an aspiring photographer when he began to take notice. rain had subsided, young Graham Nash could listen to American Top-40 radio on Sunday nights in his bedroom.
When the clouds had parted and the drizzly U.K.
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