Before this BBC podcast kicks off, I'd like to tell you about some others you might enjoy.
My name's Will Wilkin and I commission music podcasts for the BBC.
It's a really cool job.
Every day we get to tell the incredible stories behind songs, moments and movements.
Stories of struggle and success, rises and falls, the funny, the ridiculous.
And the BBC's position at the heart of british music means we can tell those stories like no one else.
We were, are, and always will be right there at the center of the narrative.
So whether you want an insightful take on music right now or a nostalgic deep dive into some of the most famous and infamous moments in music, check out the music podcasts on BBC sounds.
BBC Sounds music Radio podcasts hello, I'm Lauren La Verne and this is the Desert Island Discs podcast.
Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks, book and luxury they'd want to take with them if they were cast away to a desert island.
And for rights reasons, the music is shorter than the original broadcast.
I hope you enjoy listening.
My castaway this week is the singer songwriter Graham Nash.
He was a Salford teenager when he formed the Hollies with a childhood friend.
They were spotted at the Cavern Club in January 1963, shortly after another Mersey beat combo had made the venue famous.
Their foot stomping sound took them to the top of the british charts, then to America, where his next adventure began.
In Los Angeles, he was introduced to David Crosby of the Birds and Stephen Stills from Buffalo Springfield.
In the course of one life changing, mind altering evening, they formed Crosby, Stills and Nash.
Their debut albums spent over 100 weeks on the us top 40, and their crystalline harmonies defined LA's Laurel Canyon sound in the late 1960s and early seventies.
Though many of their biggest hits, including our House and Marrakesh Express, were written by the lad from Lancashire, it was the start of a lifelong, shape shifting creative journey.