38 Facts About Graham Nash

Graham William Nash was born on 2 February 1942 and is an English-American musician, singer and songwriter.

Graham Nash was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2010 Birthday Honours List for services to music and to charity.

Graham William Nash was born on 2 February 1942 in Blackpool, to where his mother had been evacuated from her hometown of Salford when World War II began.

Graham Nash was featured vocally on "Just One Look" and sang his first lead vocal on the original Hollies song "To You My Love" on the band's second album In The Hollies Style of the same year.

Graham Nash often sang featured bridge vocals on later Hollies recordings and provided lead vocals on several later singles, notably "On a Carousel" and "Carrie Anne".

Graham Nash encouraged the Hollies to write their own songs, initially with Clarke, then with Clarke and guitarist Tony Hicks.

Graham Nash was disappointed when this new style did not register with their audience, especially "King Midas in Reverse".

Graham Nash initially met both David Crosby and Stephen Stills in 1966 during a Hollies US tour.

Graham Nash left the Hollies to form a new group with Crosby and Stills.

Graham Nash, nicknamed "Willy" by his bandmates, has been described as the glue that keeps their often fragile alliances together.

In 1972, during CSNY's first hiatus, Graham Nash teamed with Crosby, forming a successful duo.

In 1979, Graham Nash co-founded Musicians United for Safe Energy which is against the expansion of nuclear power.

Graham Nash briefly rejoined the Hollies in 1983 to record two albums, What Goes Around.

In 2005, Graham Nash collaborated with Norwegian musicians A-ha on the songs "Over the Treetops" and "Cosy Prisons" for the Analogue recording.

In 2006, Graham Nash worked with David Gilmour and David Crosby on the title track of David Gilmour's third solo album, On an Island.

Graham Nash appeared on the season 7 finale of American Idol singing "Teach Your Children" with Brooke White.

In 2010, Graham Nash was inducted a second time to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, this time as a member of the Hollies.

Graham Nash received an OBE "for services to music and charitable activities", becoming an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the Diplomatic and Overseas Division of the Queen's Birthday Honours List on 12 June 2010.

Graham Nash received the title of George Eastman Honorary Scholar at the George Eastman House on 22 January 2011, in Rochester, New York.

Graham Nash contributed a cover of "Raining in My Heart" to the 2011 tribute album Rave on Buddy Holly.

On 22 January 2016, Graham Nash announced the forthcoming release on 15 April 2016 of his new studio album entitled This Path Tonight and shared the title track from it through MOJO magazine's website.

Graham Nash was still touring in the fall of 2017, performing in New Jersey and New York in September.

Interested in photography as a child, Graham Nash began to collect photographs in the early 1970s.

In 1978 through 1984 a touring exhibition of selections from the Graham Nash Collection toured to more than a dozen museums worldwide.

Graham Nash decided to sell his 2,000 print collection through Sotheby's auction house in 1990 where it set an auction record for the highest grossing sale of a single private collection of photography.

Graham Nash said that some of the auction profit would be given to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for the acquisition of contemporary photographs.

In 2010 21st Editions published a monograph titled "Love, Graham Nash" which includes facsimiles of his lyrics paired with signed photographs by Graham Nash and printed by Nash Editions.

Graham Nash ran into the problem common with all personal computers running graphics software during that period: he could create very sophisticated detailed images on the computer, but there was no output device capable of reproducing what he saw on the computer screen.

Graham Nash used software he had written to output the photographic images to the IRIS printer, a machine designed to work with proprietary prepress computer systems.

In July 1990, Graham Nash purchased an IRIS Graphics 3047 inkjet printer for $126,000 and set it up in a small carriage house in Manhattan Beach, California near Los Angeles.

Subsequently, Graham Nash exhibited his photographs at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego and elsewhere.

In 1991, Graham Nash agreed to fund Mac Holbert to start a fine art digital-based printing company using the IRIS Graphics 3047 printer sitting in Graham Nash's Manhattan Beach, California carriage house.

Graham Nash is still in operation and currently uses Epson-based large format printers.

In 2005, Graham Nash donated the original IRIS Graphics 3047 printer and Graham Nash Editions ephemera to the National Museum of American History, a Smithsonian Institution.

Graham Nash was married to his first wife, Rose Eccles, from 1964 until 1966.

Graham Nash was married to his second wife, actress Susan Sennett, from 1978 until he left her for artist Amy Grantham in 2016.

Graham Nash had a brief relationship with American musician Rita Coolidge, as had his bandmate Stephen Stills.

Graham Nash endorsed American politician Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries.