A ROCK and roll legend is set to entertain audiences in Basingstoke later this year.

Graham Nash, founding member of both The Hollies and Crosby, Stills and Nash, will be at The Anvil on Tuesday, August 29, part of a 10-date tour and his first appearance in the UK for four years.

He is an English-American musician, singer and songwriter and is known for his light tenor voice. Nash is also known as a photography collector and a published photographer.

Nash is a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy Award-winning renaissance artist. He has seen rock history unfold at some seminal moments – from the launch of the British Invasion, to the birth of the Laurel Canyon movement a year later.

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Towering above virtually everything that he has accomplished in his long and multi-faceted career, stands the litany of songs that he has written and introduced to the soundtrack of our lives for nearly six decades. Nash’s remarkable body of work began with his contributions to the Hollies opus from 1964 to ’68, including Stop Stop Stop and On A Carousel.

The union of Crosby, Stills & Nash (& Young) created songs that are lightning rods embedded in our DNA, starting with Nash’s Marrakesh Express, Pre-Road Downs and Lady of the Island, from the first Crosby, Stills & Nash LP and Teach Your Children and Our House from CSNY’s Déjà Vu.

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His career as a solo artist took flight in 1971, beginning with two landmark albums which include Songs For Beginners and Wild Tales, which further showcased the depths of his abilities as a singer and songwriter, yielding such favourites as Chicago/We Can Change the World and Military Madness.

Graham will be joined on stage at The Anvil by his long-time musical partners Shane Fontayne (guitar and vocals), and Todd Caldwell (keyboards and vocals), performing favourites from across his sixty-year career.

For more information and tickets visit anvilarts.org.uk/whats-on/event/graham-nash.