Claude says:The Hollies were a Manchester band who ruled British pop through the '60s with Allan Clarke's voice and a rotating lineup that included Graham Nash before he left for California supergroups in 1968. By 1971's Distant Light, they'd settled into slick studio craft — glossy harmonies, sharp hooks, a little swamp-rock edge on the bigger tracks. You've played it exactly twice in four years, mostly for "Long Cool Woman," which is fair: that song does all the heavy lifting.