Look Through Any Window: 1963-1975

Either this comprehensive Hollies documentary is leaving out a lot of dirty laundry or the legendary harmony-pop kings' story is the furthest you'll ever get from your typical lurid VH1 Behind The Music-style rock doc. The latter's more likely, as none of the band members seems interested in any axe-grinding here. More than four decades after the fact, Graham Nash, Allan Clarke, Tony Hicks, and Bobby Elliott all share fond memories of The Hollies' heyday. From their beginnings as Merseybeat moptops to their Nash-instigated forays into psychedelia and the continued hit harvest of their post-Nash period, the lads look back in detail on every phase of their first 12 years. Illustrating it all quite vividly are no less than 22 full-song clips, some lip-synched and some live, as well as some fascinating footage of the band overdubbing tracks for their 1967 hit "On A Carousel" at Abbey Road. As the Hollies themselves point out, their fresh-faced image and highly melodic, close-harmony Britpop made them the band most likely to earn parental endorsements. But from "Bus Stop" to "Stop! Stop! Stop!" and "Dear Eloise," they were also one of the most crackingly crafty acts of their era, and Look Through Any Window gets these pop princes' tale across in style.