Graham Nash, musician

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Graham William Nash is a musician, singer, songwriter and photographer. He had his first musical success as a member of the UK band The Hollies before his move to America when he sang as part of Crosby, Stills and Nash.

Graham was born in 1942 and grew up in Salford. He found his singing voice at the age of six when he realised that not only could he sing, but he had the ability to harmonise any melody.

He is a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee. Over the years, Graham has written many hit songs for The Hollies and Crosby, Stills and Nash including Our House and Marrakesh Express. Alongside his critically acclaimed musical career, Graham is also a successful photographer. His photos have been on show in galleries and museums around the world.

He lives in New York with his third wife.

DISC ONE: Be-bop-a-Lula - Gene Vincent DISC TWO: Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis DISC THREE: Maybe Baby - Buddy Holly and the Crickets DISC FOUR: Bye Bye Love - The Everly Brothers DISC FIVE: God Only Knows - The Beach Boys DISC SIX: Adagio for Strings, composed by Samuel Barber and performed by City of London Sinfonia conducted, by Richard Hickox DISC SEVEN: Don't Give Up - Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush DISC EIGHT: A Day In The Life - The Beatles

BOOK CHOICE: The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto LUXURY ITEM: A sleeping bag CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: A Day In The Life - The Beatles

Presenter Lauren Laverne Producer Sarah Taylor

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I love you and would kill before I would see you taken from me.
0:06.0	Lady Killers is back.
0:08.0	Join me Lucy Worsley to investigate infamous female criminals from the past.
0:13.2	It's really important that we listen to these voices about the society in which they lived.
0:18.0	We're seeking to understand these women from the perspective of 21st century feminists.
0:23.0	We cannot put women into history on the basis of likeability.
0:26.0	Put all the women back, the sinners and the saints.
0:29.0	Lady Killers, listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:33.0	BBC Sounds.
0:34.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts.
0:38.0	Hello I'm Laura Levine and this is the Desert Island Discs podcast.
0:41.0	Every week I ask my guest to choose the 8 tracks, book and
0:45.1	luxury they'd want to take with them if they were cast away to a desert island.
0:49.8	And for rights reasons, the music is shorter than the original broadcast.
0:54.3	I hope you enjoy listening. The My castaway this week is the singer-songwriter Graham Nash. He was a
1:20.0	sulfur teenager when he formed the Hollies with a childhood friend. They were spotted at the
1:24.7	Cavern Club in January 1963, shortly after another Mersey Beat combo had made the venue famous.
1:30.8	Their foot stomping sound took them to the top of the British charts, then to America, where his next adventure began. In Los Angeles, he was introduced to David Crosby of the Birds and Stephen Stills from Buffalo Springfield.
1:43.9	In the course of one life-changing, mind-altering evening, they formed Crosby, Stills and Nash.
1:49.5	Their debut album spent over a hundred weeks on the US top 40 and their crystalline harmonies
1:54.7	defined L.A.'s Laurel Canyon sound in the late 1960s and early 70s.
1:59.7	Though many of their biggest hits, including Our House and Marrakesh Express were written by the
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.