I hope you aren't saying that you never heard CSN or CSNY before. Here's one of Graham's songs from the first album he and Crosby did as a duo. We have Dave Mason on electric lead guitar here.
Hi Doug, Yes I was aware of CSN but I suppose I was mistakenly mad at Graham for leaving the Hollies. They were a local group and I saw them a lot in the clubs around Manchester. I thought they would become as big as the Beatles.
I love Graham, and I think it's too bad that he is overshadowed by the other three. CSN (and CSNY) would NOT have been the same without his high harmonies, and he's a very good songwriter too. I love his first solo album from the early 70s, Songs For Beginners. I just Googled why he left the Hollies, and apparently he wanted to do more intellectual and topical songs than the pop music that the Hollies made, and, when he met Stills and Crosby when on tour with the Hollies in '68, at Joni Mitchell's house in Laurel Canyon, that was it. He was smitten by them, and by Joni, who he had a romantic relationship with. He said he hated leaving his friends, and it damaged his friendship with Allan Clarke for many years, but they recently recorded a new album together, which I'll have to look for on YT.
