Terry Sylvester

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Biography Terry Sylvester came to international fame in the unenviable position of succeeding Graham Nash as a member of the Hollies. A gifted singer and a talented musician, he fared well in the group for a dozen years, during which they cut three of their biggest hits and some of their best albums. Terry Sylvester was born on January 8, 1947, in Liverpool and grew up in the Allerton section, only a few hundred yards from his older contemporary, Paul McCartney. Sylvester's father, James Sylvester, introduced Terry to music at a very early age. By the early '60s, he had co-founded his first group, the Escorts, with schoolmates Mike Gregory and John Kinrade. The Escorts, starting out later than such rivals as the Big Three or the Beatles, worked in their shadow to some degree, although they did end up on the same bill with the Beatles at the Cavern Club on many occasions between 1961 and 1963, and were there when the Beatles played their last show there. The group did break out of Liverpool, but only on a limited basis beyond the surrounding area and some gigs in Germany; significantly, the Escorts were booked with the Hollies at the same club in Munich, Germany, when three of the bandmembers fell ill, and Graham Nash, Allan Clarke, and Bobby Elliott of the Hollies played the gig in place of the stricken Escorts members, thus sharing a stage with Sylvester four years before he joined their group. He was, by his own account, friendly with Nash and Clarke on a social level as

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I Believe

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Complete Works 1969-1982

Terry Sylvester

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Complete Works 1969-1982 Disc 1

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Songs Of Roger Nichols 1967-72

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Something Going...Soft Rock Perspectives

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Complete Works 1969-1982 (Disc 1)

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First Solo Album

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Dream Chimney: Track of the Day

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Complete Works 1969-1982 (Disc 2)

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Escorts

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Complete Works 1969-1982 (2Cd)

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