Evolution (Hollies album)
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| Studio album by The Hollies | ||||
| Released | June 1967 | |||
| Recorded | 11 January – 17 March 1967 at Abbey Road Studios, London | |||
| Genre | Psychedelic pop, freakbeat | |||
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Parlophone PMC7022 (Mono)/PCS 7022 (Stereo) Epic LN 24315 (Mono)/BN 26315 (Stereo) |
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| Producer | Ron Richards | |||
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| The Village Voice | A– |
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| Studio album by The Hollies | |||||
| Released | June 1967 | ||||
| Recorded | 11 January – 17 March 1967 at Abbey Road Studios, London | ||||
| Genre | Psychedelic pop, freakbeat | ||||
| Label | Epic LN 24315 (Mono)/BN 26315 (Stereo) | ||||
| Producer | Ron Richards | ||||
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Evolution is the first of two albums released in 1967 by British pop band The Hollies. The album peaked at number 13 in the UK album chart.
Like its predecessor, For Certain Because, this album features only songs written by group members Allan Clarke, Graham Nash, and Tony Hicks. None of the songs on the album were selected for single or EP release in the UK.
The album cover artwork was created by The Fool, with the psychedelic cover photo by Karl Ferris, who is credited with creating the first truly psychedelic photograph for an album cover.
Ferris commented on the making of the album cover during a special signing of cover prints in 1997:
... they wanted to break from their 'Pop Beat' sound into something more psychedelic. So I listened to the music that they were recording at Abbey Road Studios, and got an image of them pushing through a membrane into 'the Psychedelic world', and so in summer of 1966 I took a studio shot of them pushing out their hands and the lead singer pointing through clear plastic. Over this I superimposed a shot of William Morris Art Nouveau wallpaper with an illustration and 'Love' lettering drawn by my girl friend Anke. This combination created the image of the Hollies 'pushing through to a new wave of music style and consciousness'. I worked with The Fool (lead by Simon Posthuma) on this, and they did the lettering, the back cover design and the group's costumes.
In 1978, Parlophone reissued the stereo version of Evolution, along with Butterfly and Confessions of the Mind.
The song "Have You Ever Loved Somebody?" was released earlier (in September 1966) both by The Searchers and Paul and Barry Ryan as single a-sides. It was first released by the Everly Brothers on their Two Yanks in England album.
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