Hollies (1974 album)

Hollies is a 1974 album by the English pop-rock band The Hollies. The centerpiece is the band's classic cover of Albert Hammond's ballad "The Air That I Breathe," a major worldwide hit that year.

Track listing

Side 1

1. "Falling Calling" (Allan Clarke, [[Terry Sylvester)
2. "It's a Shame, It's a Game" (Tony Hicks, Colin Horton-Jennings)
3. "Don't Let Me Down" (Allan Clarke)
4. "Out on the Road" (Tony Hicks, Kenny Lynch)
5. "The Air That I Breathe" (Albert Hammond, Mike Hazelwood)

Side 2

1. "Rubber Lucy" (Allan Clarke)
2. "Transatlantic West Bound Jet" (Bobby Elliot, Terry Sylvester)
3. "Pick Up the Pieces Again" (Terry Sylvester)
4. "Down on the Run" (Tony Hicks, Colin Horton-Jennings)
5. "Love Makes the World Go Round" (Allan Clarke, Terry Sylvester)
6. "The Day That Curly Billy Shot Down Crazy Sam McGee" (Allan Clarke)

Singles

"The Air That I Breathe" was a worldwide hit which was received very well.

Another single from the album, The Day That Curly Billy Shot Down Crazy Sam McGee, was a top 30 British hit that revived the guitar driven rock of "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress".

Trivia

Hollies was the first Hollies album to feature Allan Clarke on lead vocals since 1971's Distant Light.

The tracks Out on the Road, Pick Up The Pieces Again, and Transatlantic West Bound Jet, were released a year earlier on the German only release Out on the Road (Hansa 87119IT) but featured Swedish vocalist Mikael Rickfors who had replaced Clarke for two albums, Romany and Out on the Road.

This song also appears on "the Virgin Suicides"a film by Sofia Coppola in the Movie The Album featured Alan Parsons as engineer.