Happy belated 71st birthday to Graham Gouldman.

I got the earworm for The Hollies' "Look Through Any Window" yesterday morning. I've liked that song since it came out. Wikipedia has informed me that it was written by Graham Gouldman:

1963-1968

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Finally, The Hollies broke through in North America with an original song that they requested from Manchester's Graham Gouldman. "Look Through Any Window" (Sept. 1965, UK No.4) broke the Hollies into the US Top 40 (No.32, Jan. 1966) and into the Canadian top 10 (No. 3, Jan. 1966), both for the first time. However, their follow-up single, an original recording of George Harrison's "If I Needed Someone" (Dec. 1965), was undercut when the Beatles decided to release their own version on Rubber Soul; it only reached No.20 in the UK, and was not released in North America. Their third album, simply called Hollies, hit No. 8 in the UK in 1965, but failed to chart in the US under the name Hear! Here!, despite its inclusion of "Look Through Any Window" and "I'm Alive".

Graham Gouldman

Early life and 1960s pop career: 1946–1968

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Gouldman signed a management agreement with Harvey Lisberg in 1965, and while working by day in a men's outfitters shop and playing by night with his semi-professional band, he wrote a string of hit songs, many of them million sellers. Between 1965 and 1967 alone he wrote "For Your Love", "Heart Full of Soul" and "Evil Hearted You" for the Yardbirds, "Look Through Any Window" (with Charles Silverman) and "Bus Stop" for the Hollies, "Listen People", "No Milk Today" and "East West" for Herman's Hermits, "Pamela, Pamela" for Wayne Fontana, "Behind the Door" for St. Louis Union (covered by Cher), "Tallyman" for Jeff Beck and "Going Home", which was a 1967 Australian hit for Normie Rowe.

Well, that's certainly quite a string of hits.

Here's this weekend's song, first not lip-synched, at the London Palladium:



What kind of guitar is Tony Hicks playing? Like this (Jimmy Page)?



Next, the song as it was released, (1) with a period video, of which one commenter says, "I want to live inside this video." I'd love to have the Mini that appears at 0:28. Here you go:



(1) Well, not the way I heard it, as this is in stereo. We didn't have that.