Chords for The Hollies Milwaukee Interview 1966 Parts 1 and 2

Is my light on?
Yeah.
_ [Dm] Oh, she's up smart.
[N] Oh, boy. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Staring down.
[Bb] _ _ _ [Eb] The Hollies, a group from [D] Manchester, England,
came into Milwaukee yesterday
and were scheduled to appear at Divine's
bar room here last night.
Well, the appearance didn't [G] go on
as scheduled, and we're going to find out what happened.
Well, this is a [Bb] fault
mainly of our booking agents,
Associated Booking, that didn't clear
the booking with Immigration.
_ _ A guy from Immigration came down
last night [B] and very kindly explained
that they had no notification.
I do.
They had no notification
that [D] the booking was on the schedule.
So they
[Bb] said that the decision was completely up to us
whether we did it or not.
And the thing is, had we done the show, we'd have violated
our status over here and they could have deported us.
They said that they wouldn't
take such drastic action, but we would
have violated our status.
What's going to happen now?
Well, unfortunately, we had to disappoint the fans in Milwaukee last night.
But [Bbm] we came
down here, down to the Immigration office this morning
and spent a couple of hours with the guys.
They were very nice to us and explained [Bb] exactly
in detail what [G] we had to do
to avoid [N] any further complications.
We were rather annoyed with the Immigration
people at first, but seemingly, it's not
so much their fault at all.
They were quite right.
We hadn't given them enough
notice.
Well, I'm saying we hadn't.
All we wanted to do [Bbm] was just play.
But we got into all this trouble.
And seemingly, it's the booking corporation
[Bb] whose fault it was.
It won't happen again.
We've learned_
[Eb] What's the word you say?
Learned our lesson.
We in America [Bb] have heard quite a few things about
immigration problems for the English groups.
Is this [Gb] true?
Are there quite a few problems coming over here?
Yeah, well, as
[F] Graham said, the gentleman
who came to see us last [N] night explained
that when you're coming over to America
to do a job, you have to
have a petition sent to the
Immigration offices and get [Bb] it passed
before you're allowed into the country to [N] do
these jobs.
Well, you know,
somewhere along the way, you know, we've been
mislaid.
That's why we couldn't do the jobs.
[A] We've even been cancelled television
and things like [D] that.
We were due to do a client show,
but unfortunately, because
the associated booking didn't stay on top
of the jobs and got them, you [Bb] know, seen through
right to the end, they've been cancelled out.
These would affect [Db] the sales of
I Can't Let Go quite considerably, I should think.
Which was that?
I [N] Can't Let Go. _ _
Okay. _ _ _ _ _ _
We're talking with four
members of the Hollies today, and we're going to get
their names from them.
I'm Graham.
[D] Tony Hicks.
Alan Clark.
Eric Gator.
[G] How did you fellas get your group started?
Well,
[Bb] actually, that character, that cowboy fellow
on the end there, started the whole thing
back in about, in 19_
what was it?
62?
Yeah.
[Ab] 1962.
Four years.
[N] It was his idea to get the group going,
and all the credit is due to Eric.
It's nice to have him around, yeah?
He's very, very quiet.
He's never speak.
Eric, how did you come up with the name Hollies?
I don't know.
It was just, um_
_ Yeah, it was Christmas,
and we needed a name, and it was just
around at the time, so we picked Hollies, and that was it.
You know.
And how did you come up with
the sound that you have?
It just happened, you know.
We didn't sit
down and build the sound.
It just came
to us as we got together, you know.
[G] We didn't work on it at all.
Tell us about your hometown, Manchester.
Oh, swinging city.
I [Bbm] think, really,
that could be compared with,
[Bb] um, sort of comparing Manchester
with London.
It can be compared
with, sort of, Chicago and New York.
[Gb] Get it?
It's very friendly.
Everyone's very friendly [N] and very helpful there, you know.
And there's a lot of nice clubs that are not
too expensive.
In fact, we've taken several
American [Gb] visitors over to these clubs, and they've been
knocked out with them.
You write some of your own music, [N] too, right?
Well, yeah.
We do all
the B-sides of the numbers on
all our albums.
We've got at least
half of them as we write.
You know, we always go
to write the A-side, but I suppose
I could say, fortunately, we always manage
to get a better number, you know, when we've written.
We mainly wrote Moonlight in Vermont
once, put some of the beaters to it, yeah. That's true.
We wrote the B-side of I Can't Let Go, which is our current record,
which is different from
I Can't Let Go in England.
And let's face it, we always think we could
have written the Beatles number when they've written it,
don't we?
We think we could have done that.
Hard Day's Night we nearly wrote as well.
Yeah.
Until late again.
You fellas from England always have a [Eb] great sense
of humour.
I enjoy it.
Do you [F] have some story,
some [E] favourite story that you might
pass along to our viewers?
[B] I'll tell you one thing.
In our wilder days of,
you know, of [Eb] being like
rockers and that, [Gb] we were doing a show
in [D] Wales, which is, you know,
county in England, well, it's another country, but
it's attached to England, and
Tony was doing a wild bit at the front and [Ab] we
liked to get to
[Bb] contact with fans, you know, consequently
he walked out on the piano, which was
in the pit, and it was [Bb] covered
with a cloth, and unfortunately_
It was [N] glass.
Oh, this is No.
[D] He just walked in.
_ [Bbm] I don't want to be touched.
And [Bb] unfortunately there was no top
on the piano, [D] so Tony slowly sank
right into the piano while he was still playing.
I was playing God Save the Queen.
Also, one night we arrived at a job in the
early days and we were told we had to
build our own [Gb] stage, and we did do.
We had a load of boxes, hammering it,
and we had to build it ourselves.
That was true.
[Bb] Well, at least all of this is
quite lucrative, right?
Well, it's quite true
as [B] well, yes. _
[Bb] Okay, this is Bob Burry talking to the
Hollies. Bye. _ _ _
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