I listened to Hammond’s original take on “The Air That I Breathe.” It starts off sounding like a demo with Hammond’s tentative-sounding vocal until the strings start. After that it breaks into a wannabe acid rock jam session from John Lennon’s “Instant Karma” sessions or a track from George Harrison’s “All Thing Must Pass.”
Looks like I owe The Hollies an apology! Minus their pronounciation of “anything” as “anyTHIN.”
Albert Hammond performs his composition and subsequent hit by The Hollies, “The Air That I Breathe”, which would inhabit FM radio for decades.
