The Song That Changed My Life: Graham Nash

By Graham Nash: Los Angeles, CA / September 15, 2011

My best friend Allan Clarke and I were 15 years old in 1957, living in Salford, which is very close to Manchester in the North of England…

It was a Saturday night and we were going to the local school dance….

I remember going down the stairs to the dance and handing over our tickets….

You Send Me by the great Sam Cooke had just finished playing and the kids, who had, moments before, been ‘close dancing’ began to clear…

We noticed Norma Timms, a girl we both knew, across the way….

We both headed towards her, crossing the room….

We were in the middle of an empty dance floor when Bye, Bye Love by the Everly Brothers came blasting out of the speakers..

The music stopped us both in our tracks… we couldn’t believe the effect that the two harmonies had us…

My life has never been the same since that moment and, all my life, I’ve tried to make music that made me feel the way I felt that night…

Music is love…

♬ Listen to You Send Me ♫

♬ Listen to Bye, Bye, Love ♫

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