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speedwaybloke Post subject: Twenty Years Ago
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Location: Point Clare, NSW, Australia

It was 20 years ago today (approximately)
I last saw the Hollies play.

I was living in New Zealand then and the Hollies played in Palmerston North in May 1987. It was a much better show than the one I had been to about 4 years before. (At that one I don't think they did a sound check because Bobby's drumming was like gunshots going off. My ears are still ringing.)

The show started with Allan Clarke coming on stage playing the lead to LCW. They didn't play the whole song but used the first half of the song as an introduction which blended into the first part of the show. They were lively and animated during the show with lots of banter and talk to us in the audience. At one stage a bug landed on Alan Coates. He was going to crush it but was prevented by an anguished cry from a woman near the front. He got down off the stage and handed the bug to the woman. I think it was Tony Hicks who then made a remark about his (Coates') pulling power with the birds.

They played all the well known songs plus a couple that were not so familiar. Part of the show featured only Clarke, Hicks (with acoustic guitar) and Coates on stage and included a beautiful rendition of Too young To Be Married (one of my all time favourites).

Twenty years ago, wow. I'm gettin' old. But what a great show, what a great memory that I relive every time I put one of the Hollies albums on the turntable.
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James Towill Post subject:
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Nice recollections. It's always great to think back to a solid gig like that.

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