Hollies Live Hits (stylized as Hollies. Live Hits.) is the first live album by the Hollies, released in 1977. It reached number four on the UK Album Chart.

Hollies Live Hits
Live album by
ReleasedMarch 1977
Recorded24 January 1976–28 January 1976
VenueChristchurch Town Hall, New Zealand
GenreRock, pop
LabelPolydor Records
ProducerThe Hollies
The Hollies chronology
Russian Roulette
(1976)
Hollies Live Hits
(1977)
A Crazy Steal
(1978)
German alternative cover
Hollies Live (1976)
Hollies Live (1976)

Overview and recording

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The Hollies had already planned to release a live album with Graham Nash in 1968, but the idea was not realised at the time.[1] The recording of the show for the Hollies Live Hits album was made during a number of shows in New Zealand in January 1976. In addition to many of the band's hits from the 1960s ("Just One Look", "I Can't Let Go", "Bus Stop", "Carrie Anne" and "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"), the LP also included songs from more recent Hollies albums such as Hollies (1974), Another Night (1975) and Write On (1976). Two recorded songs from the show were not used for the LP ("Boulder to Birmingham" and "Amazing Grace").

Reception

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The album was advertised on British television and the original UK album cover art referred directly to the advertisement.[2] In other countries, however, the album had a completely different cover, featuring a photo of the Hollies on stage. The album reached the top five in the UK Album chart, stayed there for 12 weeks and the Hollies were awarded a silver disc for this album.[3][4]

Track listing

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Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I Can't Let Go"Chip Taylor, Al Gorgoni3:08
2."Just One Look"Gregory Carroll, Doris Payne2:51
3."I Can't Tell the Bottom from the Top"Guy Fletcher, Doug Flett3:31
4."Bus Stop"Graham Gouldman3:27
5."Another Night"Allan Clarke, Tony Hicks, Terry Sylvester3:40
6."4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)"Bruce Springsteen4:17
7."Star"Clarke, Hicks, Sylvester3:59
8."My Island"Clarke, Hicks, Sylvester4:27
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I'm Down"Clarke, Hicks, Sylvester4:16
2."Stop Stop Stop"Clarke, Hicks, Graham Nash3:09
3."Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress"Clarke, Roger Cook, Roger Greenaway4:04
4."Carrie Anne"Clarke, Hicks, Nash3:05
5."The Air That I Breathe"Albert Hammond, Mike Hazlewood4:46
6."Too Young to Be Married"Tony Hicks5:20
7."He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"Bobby Scott, Bob Russell4:56

Personnel

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The Hollies

Additional personnel

References

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  1. ^ Malcolm C. Searles (2021). Riding the Carousel. Troubador Publishing Limited. p. 422. ISBN 9781800463493.
  2. ^ Bobby Elliott (2020). It's Ain't Heavy, It's My Story. Omnibus Press. p. 261. ISBN 9781913172206.
  3. ^ Peter Doggett, The Long Road Home (CD box liner notes), EMI Records Ltd, 2003.
  4. ^ "Hollies: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 20 November 2021.