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" cashbox insight&sound Sparks: Coffee Shop Rock The Hollies — Not Just A Bunch of Pretty Faces For Ron Mael. the Chaplinesque keyboard player of Sparks, it had been a lonq morn- "I'd have to describe our music as middle of the road rock," said Bernie Calvert ing. bassist for the Hollies, as he explained why, after eleven years in the business, the First there was the trading off of stares with a Hyatt House hanger on, followed by Hollies are still around while many groups seem to have vanished off the face of the the frantic checking of a rumor that Robert Plant was in town and had taken a room earth to his like I next ("craziness that don't need"). Fortunately for Ron the rumor proved The Hollies came out of Manchester. England when the British boom first hit the false. shores of America The Beatles led the way along with the Stones. The Dave Clark These distractions out of the way, Ron, along with sibling counterpart Russell, set- Five, The Animals. Gerry and the Pacemakers, Herman's Hermits, Freddy and the tled down with Cash Box to talk about various aspects of their musical career. (A Dreamers, Billy J Kramer, the Searchers, the Bachelors and many more The Hollies career on the rise thanks to the success of “This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both survived the Mersey Beat boom, Peter Paul & Mary and the American folk craze, Of Us" and "Achoo ') Peter Fonda and the psychedelia, "Yummy, Yummy I've Got Bubblegum In My Tum- "The best way to describe our music is to call it coffee shop rock,” laughed Ron my, "and even today's loud electronic
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