{"id":264984,"date":"2025-11-15T21:46:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T21:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/264984\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T21:46:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T21:46:15","slug":"the-genius-graham-nash-refused-to-compare-himself-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/264984\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;genius&#8221; Graham Nash refused to compare himself to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Graham-Nash-Singer-2014-Far-Out-Magazine-1140x855.jpg\" class=\"attachment-single-feature size-single-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"Graham Nash - Singer - 2014\" layout=\"fill\"  style=\"object-position: 50% 50%\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Credits: Far Out \/ Marsha Miller \/ LBJ Library)<\/p>\n<p> Sat 15 November 2025 20:00, UK <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/tags\/graham-nash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Graham Nash<\/a> is someone very susceptible to the moving nature of music. It\u2019s followed him around his whole life. <\/p>\n<p>It was there in The Hollies, it\u2019s been there as a solo artist, and it was overwhelming when he first performed with Crosby, Stills and Nash. He was reminded of how powerful music can be and how moving, sweet-sounding harmonies can be so long as they\u2019re performed by the right people. He has been chasing that initial feeling he had with Crosby and Stills his whole career.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was born and raised on the outskirts of Manchester, and I heard a magical sound when me and David and Stephen put our three voices together to try and make one voice,\u201d he said, \u201cAnd when I heard that I had to go back to England, leave The Hollies and instead go back to <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/graham-nash-exclusive-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">that magical sound<\/a> that we had created.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his career, recognising the power of music, he was always trying to use what he wrote to inspire, move and educate people. This meant using his art as a reflection of whatever time he was living in. Everything from the personal to the political was laid out in his songs, up to as far as his most recent album, NOW, where he talks about his life, his emotions, and his disdain for certain politicians. <\/p>\n<p>He knows that because of how influential music can be, people will refer to it as a reflection of a historical moment. There are some artists he believes will always be referred to as legends in music, even hundreds of years later down the line, and one of these is Joni Mitchell. The two of them were in a relationship for a while and worked together a lot, leading to them having an influence on each other\u2019s work. While some people often compare the two artists, Nash admits that said comparison isn\u2019t fair, as he thinks Mitchell is a better songwriter than him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would never, ever try to compare any of my work with any of Joni\u2019s work. I think she\u2019s a genius,\u201d he said before talking about the lasting influence of her work.<\/p>\n<p>Adding, \u201cI think in a hundred years\u2019 time, when people are looking back at this century and what happened in music, they are probably going to remember The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, and they\u2019re definitely going to remember Joni Mitchell.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He then spoke about his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/joni-mitchell-10-greatest-songs-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">favourite Joni Mitchell<\/a>\u00a0song, specifically, saying that while he likes her versatility as an artist, it\u2019s always been her stripped-back numbers which appeal more to him. There is something about those subdued songs that really allows her ability as a folk singer to shine through, and it\u2019s those songs that Nash (and the future of the human race, apparently) will never tire of.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are so many brilliant songs,\u201d he said, \u201cI tend to go towards a simple song, and one of my favorites is \u2018A Case Of You\u2019. I think it\u2019s an unbelievably beautifully recorded, simple folk song. It\u2019s beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Far Out \/ Marsha Miller \/ LBJ Library) Sat 15 November 2025 20:00, UK Graham Nash is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,28730,47936,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-264984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-graham-nash","10":"tag-joni-mitchell","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}