His daughter is Molly Clarke. Clarke inspired a generation of actors, writers and directors, including Paul Greengrass, Stephen Frears, Tim Roth, Ray Winstone, Gary Oldman, Danny Brocklehurst and Iain MacDonald.

The Hollies continue touring and recording today with Peter Howarth as their vocalist. Shop for Vinyl, CDs and more from Allan Clarke at the Discogs Marketplace. Cultural influences. Alan John Clarke (28 October 1935 – 24 July 1990) was an English television and film director, producer and writer. [1], After 1967, Clarke began writing solo songs under the team banner, notably: "Lullaby To Tim" (dedicated to his son, though sung by Nash), "Heading for a Fall", "Water on the Brain", and "Would You Believe?". - IMDb Mini Biography By: The feature film Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987), was adapted by the working class writer Andrea Dunbar from her stage work. He also performed lead vocals on "Breakdown" by The Alan Parsons Project, from their 1977 album I Robot. | 

Clarke has sole credit for songs such as "My Life Is Over With You", "Goodbye Tomorrow", "Not That Way at All", "Marigold" (1969), "Mad Professor Blyth", "Separated" (1970), "Row the Boat Together" and "Hold On" (1971). Clarke recorded cover versions of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run", "Blinded by the Light" and "If I Were the Priest".

Many of the films that Clarke directed from this period are often seen as bleak and lacking redemptive qualities – the 1986 BBC film Christine dealt with teenage drug addiction whilst Road featured a cast of characters in the depressed estates of Northern England. They used the pseudonym "L. Ransford" initially for their song-writing credits, then 'Clarke-Nash-Hicks' from mid-1966 onwards. He left the Hollies three times, once in 1972 to go solo but returned when the band almost fell apart without him. Andrea Grunert, "Alan Clarke: Die unglaubliche Energie der Rechtlosen"; in: This page was last edited on 19 October 2020, at 19:34.

Clarke also directed David Bowie in Baal (1982) for the BBC, part of Clarke's interest in Bertolt Brecht. A powerful and passionate vocalist in the same class as Roy Orbison, he never let fame go to his head and remains a remarkably down to earth person.

Clarke went on to release two solo albums – My Real Name Is 'Arold (Epic, 1972) and Headroom (EMI, 1973). The Hollies' song title "Jennifer Eccles" was a combination of the names of Clarke's wife and Graham Nash's then-wife, Rose Eccles. Hobbies included archery, karate, and target-shooting. However, the Hollies toured with Nash's replacement, Sylvester, who assumed the lead vocal on performance of the single instead of Clarke. 1993 saw Clarke's final chart success with the Hollies with the Nik Kershaw penned single, "The Woman I Love", charting in the UK at No.

He also worked on the series The Informer, The Gold Robbers and A Man of Our Times (but not, as Sight and Sound once claimed, Big Breadwinner Hog).

His daughter is Molly Clarke. Musician Annie Locke was a close friend of Clarke for many years, and they worked together on The Love-Girl and the Innocent. Rickfors left the group and Clarke rejoined them in July 1973. In the UK, they enjoyed 30 chart singles, plus two further chart entries with re-releases, 17 of which made the Top 10, with two – "I'm Alive" (1965) and "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" (1988 re-issue) – reaching No. He retired from performing in 1999, but returned to the music industry in 2019. On 15 March 2010 Clarke, with fellow Hollies members Graham Nash, Tony Hicks, Eric Haydock, Bobby Elliott, Terry Sylvester and Bernie Calvert, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Wayne died in 2004. His film work became more sparse, culminating in Contact (1985) on the British military presence in Northern Ireland, Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire (1985), Road (1987), and Elephant (1989). Allan Clarke, one of the most distinguished voices in British music history, is set for a dramatic return to the musical frontline. Due in part to ongoing medical problems with his vocal cords, Clarke retired from the music industry in 1999 to care for his wife, who had received a second diagnosis of cancer.

Harold Allan Clarke and his childhood friend, Graham Nash, began singing together in Manchester while still at school. In 2000 he quit for good due to his wife's health. He was 54. 32 in the UK Singles Chart. Prior to his death, he was making initial plans to film Assassination On Embassy Row, later retitled An American Murder, about a murder filmed from the assassin's point-of-view.

As documented in the series The Story of Film by Mark Cousins, the 2003 movie Elephant by Gus Van Sant about the Columbine High School Massacre was named after and influenced by Clarke's earlier work of the same title, especially by Clarke's penchant for long take tracking shots, often following one or more characters from the rear as they move through space. The film took its title from Bernard MacLaverty's description of the troubles as "the elephant in our living room" – a reference to the collective denial of the underlying social problems of Northern Ireland.

It yielded a US chart hit single in "(I Will Be Your) Shadow in the Street". One of the most underrated singers of the 20th century, Allan Clarke will be remembered as the singer of "He Aint Heavy He's My Brother" and the lead singer of the Hollies for nearly 40 years. Explore releases from Allan Clarke at Discogs. | 

In 1990, Clarke travelled to America in order to pursue the idea of developing a US-based career in filmmaking. Their first single with him back in the fold was another of his songs, "The Day that Curly Billy Shot Down Crazy Sam McGee", a UK top 40 hit that autumn.[1]. Subsequent solo albums included Legendary Heroes (1980), another largely original set, with its UK title and track running order changed to The Only One. Clarke's son is Gabriel Clarke, a sports journalist with ITV. Their UK hit singles compilation The Hollies' Greatest Hits topped the UK Albums Chart in August 1968. Clarke was born in Wallasey, Wirral, England. Has three children. Wayne died in 2004. Anonymous, Other Works Clarke directed the television play Made in Britain (1982), starring Tim Roth (in his television debut) as a racist skinhead and his negative relationship with authorities and racial minorities, from a screenplay by David Leland. Many of the group's songs were co-written by Clarke, usually with Nash and Hicks, until Nash's departure at the end of 1968. In the US charts they achieved 23 chart singles, six of which hit the Top 10.

Like several of Clarke's previous films, the screening of The Firm as part of BBC 2's Screen Two series was controversial and criticised by some of the British Press as being too violent and sexually explicit. He was 54. A powerful and passionate vocalist in the same class as Roy Orbison, he never let fame go to his head and remains a remarkably down to earth person.

In 2016, all of Clarke's surviving work for the BBC was released in a 2-part DVD/Blu-Ray collection titled Dissent & Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC. First son, Tim was born in July of 1966, second son Toby in September of 1969 and daughter Piper in 1972. He released his self-titled third album in 1974. They formed the Hollies in December 1962 with Clarke assumed more of a figurehead profile as front man of the Hollies following Graham Nash's departure from the group in December 1968. Clarke married Jennifer Bowstead on 24 March 1964 in Coventry. and Nothing's Ever Over) and Roy Minton (The Gentleman Caller, Goodnight Albert, Stand By Your Screen). In April 1963, they added Tony Hicks (replacing Steele on lead guitar) and Bobby Elliott (replacing Don Rathbone on drums). Having appeared on harmonica for Carla Olson's band The Textones in 2018,[4] Clarke made a return to his solo career in 2019 with a new album, Resurgence, on BMG.[2]. Download this stock image: HOLLIES - Singer Allan Clarke with his wife Jenny and their children Timothy at left and Toby in October 1969 - BKJ066 from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors.

Clarke continued to record and release solo albums while remaining with The Hollies, although his solo career did not achieve much album or single chart success. 3 album in early 1969).[1].

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Clarke's other work in the mid-to-late 1970s included the initially unreleased documentary Bukovsky about the Soviet dissident and defector Vladimir Bukovsky and a companion Play For Today follow-up entitled Nina (1978), which starred Jack Shepherd and Eleanor Bron.

Another project, a script by David Yallop entitled In God's Name also went unmade as Clarke began radiotherapy for cancer which by that time had spread from his lungs to his spine.

He also made To Encourage the Others (1972), a powerful drama documentary about the Derek Bentley case, the case which was later dramatised in the 1991 film Let Him Have It by Peter Medak, and several documentaries, including Vodka Cola (1981) on multinational corporations. His next album was I've Got Time (1976). In 1996, Clarke, with the Hollies and Graham Nash, contributed harmony and support vocals to a new version of "Peggy Sue Got Married," featuring lead vocals by Buddy Holly, which was credited as 'Buddy Holly and The Hollies'.

Like Christine, Road and Elephant, The Firm was also notable for Clarke's use of the steadicam, partly inspired by its earlier use in films by Stanley Kubrick like The Shining.

In 1991 a documentary on him Director Alan Clarke by Corin Campbell-Hill aired on British TV. Has three children - a daughter, Piper, and two sons, Timothy and Toby. Clarke was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. Distinctive work for these strands included further plays by Minton including Funny Farm (1975) and Scum (further details below), but also Sovereign's Company (1970) by Don Shaw, The Hallelujah Handshake (1970) by Colin Welland and Penda's Fen (1974) by David Rudkin. 1972). Clarke was the sole lead singer on Hollies Sing Dylan (a UK No. 1.[1]. His final solo album was Reasons to Believe (1990) issued in Germany on Polydor Records, which remains unreleased in the US and UK.

Clarke's work in the 1980s was fiercely stark and political, including the David Leland plays Beloved Enemy (1981) on multinational corporations and Psy-Warriors (1981) on military interrogation. Also, Clarke helped Nash's replacement, Terry Sylvester, develop as a songwriter,[citation needed] teaming with him to write a number of songs including "Gloria Swansong", "Look at Life" (1969) "I Wanna Shout", "Man Without a Heart" and "Perfect Lady Housewife" (1970). Clarke was The Hollies' original lead singer, but also played occasional guitar and harmonica. Most of Clarke's output was for television rather than cinema, including work for the famous play strands The Wednesday Play and Play for Today. Vic Steele (lead guitar) and Eric Haydock (bass guitar). In 1982, Clarke issued a rare non-album single, "Someone Else Will" c/w "Castles in the Wind" on Forever Records; however the song failed to chart. It combines my compassion for those less fortunate than me w/ my love for animals. A heavy smoker and drinker, Clarke died on 24 July 1990 after suffering from lung cancer.

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