Sixties pop band wants ex-bassist jailed over naming rights
Sixties chart toppers The Hollies today asked a British High Court judge to jail one of their founder members.
The group claims bass player Eric Haydock has continually flouted a court order made in 1998 not to play under their name.
They also complain that Peter Hughes plays with a group calling itself “Eric Haydock”s Hollies” and music manager James Cozens helps set up the gigs.
Stephen Glover QC, representing the band, told Mr Justice Etherton: “The view of the complainants is that British prisons are full enough and they wish no imprisonment to occur to any to of the defendants but they know of no other means of stopping this.”
The group says that the three had breached the terms of the High Court injunction – which only allows Haydock to describe himself as ex-Hollies or former Hollies bass player – on many occasions.
These include during a tour of Australia in 1999, a concert in Denmark last year, together with shows in Swindon, Newbury, Skegness and Bognor Regis.
Mr Glover said all three knew of the terms of the order and there had been a conspiracy to undermine its terms.
Haydock joined Allan Clarke and Graham Nash to form the Hollies in Manchester in the early Sixties .
They were signed by EMI in 1963 after being spotted playing at the Cavern Club in Liverpool.
Their twenty hits in the Sixties included Here I Go Again and I’m Alive.
Haydock left the group in 1966.
