Mark Hollis

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mark Hollis
Occupation	Rock Singer
Date Of Birth	Jan 4, 1955(1955-01-04)
Age	69
Date Of Death	2019-02-25
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Capricorn

Mark Hollis Biography

Mark Hollis is one of the most popular and richest Rock Singer who was born on January 4, 1955 in England, United Kingdom. English singer and songwriter , best well-known as the frontman of the influential 80’s group Talk Talk. He released his own auto-titled solo record in 1998 prior to taking a break from the music industry.

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Mark David Hollis (4 January 1955 – 25 February 2019) was an English musician and singer-songwriter. He achieved commercial success and critical acclaim in the 1980s and 1990s as the co-founder, lead singer and principal songwriter of the band Talk Talk. Hollis wrote or co-wrote most of Talk Talk’s music—including hits like “It’s My Life” and “Life’s What You Make It”—and in later works developed an experimental, contemplative style.

Around this time, Hollis’s musical outlook broadened considerably. He began to listen to progressive rock like King Crimson and Pink Floyd, which were considered unfashionable in the punk era. His brother Ed introduced him to a wider range of music including jazz, particularly John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman. Miles Davis’s collaborations with arranger Gil Evans on Porgy and Bess (1959) and Sketches of Spain (1960) had a lasting impact on Hollis; he later said Davis and Evans’s work together “has space, tight arrangement and technique but it also has movement within it” and said those two albums “were extremely important albums to me then and they still are, because the values they work with are faultless.”

He was the brother of Ed Hollis was the manager of the group Eddie and the Hot Rods.

Mark Hollis Net Worth

Mark Hollis is one of the richest Rock Singer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mark Hollis 's net worth $10 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He hoped to work as a child psychologist prior to joining The Reaction in the mid-70’s.

Talk Talk as well as Talk Talk are credited with being the first to create the genre that is now known in the industry as “post-rock” with their final two albums, Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock.

Hollis was born on 4 January 1955 in Tottenham, London. He had two brothers, one elder and one younger. Little is known about his early life as Hollis was a reluctant interviewee throughout his career. He attended Tollington School, a now-defunct grammar school in Muswell Hill, London. In one interview, he claimed to have quit pursuing an education before he had completed his A-levels ; in another, he said he had taken a course in child psychology at the University of Sussex but dropped out after a year and a half. Between school and the launch of his music career, he worked in factories and as a laboratory technician. Reflecting on this period in his life, he later said, “I could never wait to get home and start writing songs and lyrics. All day long I’d be jotting ideas down on bits of paper and just waiting for the moment when I could put it all down on tape!”

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Talk Talk disbanded in 1991. In 1998, Hollis released an eponymous solo debut album, Mark Hollis. In an interview at the time, he said: “To me the ultimate ambition is to make music that doesn’t have a use by date, that goes beyond your own time.” He also said: “Technique has never been an important thing to me. Feeling always has been, and always will be, above technique.”

Facts & Trivia

Mark Ranked on the list of most popular Rock Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Mark Hollis celebrates birthday on January 4 of every year.

As of 1998, Hollis lived in Wimbledon, London with his wife (a teacher) and his two children. Hollis’s desire to spend more time with his family was a major reason that Talk Talk stopped touring after 1986, and his reason for retiring from the music industry in 1998.

What happened to the lead singer of Talk Talk?

Mark Hollis, lead singer of 1980s band Talk Talk, has died at the age of 64 , his former manager has confirmed. “Sadly it’s true,” Keith Aspden said. “Mark has died after a short illness from which he never recovered.”

What did Mark Hollis do after Talk Talk?

“He was behind some of the finest albums of the 1980s / early 1990s.” After Talk Talk came to an end, Hollis released one solo album in 1998.

Why did Mark Hollis retire?

“ I choose for my family ,” Hollis told Q after withdrawing from the spotlight. “Maybe others are capable of doing it, but I can’t go on tour and be a good dad at the same time.”

What happened to the members of Talk Talk?

After Laughing Stock, Talk Talk disbanded in 1991; Hollis said that he wished to focus on his family. Paul Webb rejoined Lee Harris, and the two went on to form the band . O. rang, while Tim Friese-Greene started recording under the name Heligoland.

What happened Mark Hollis?

Death. Hollis died in February 2019, from cancer aged 64. Initial reports included a tweet from his cousin-in-law, the paediatrician Anthony Costello, and a tribute by Talk Talk’s bassist Paul Webb. Hollis’s death, after “a short illness from which he never recovered”, was confirmed by his former manager on 26 February …