BUS STOPThe Hollies

"Bus Stop" is the title of a song recorded and released by the British pop band The Hollies. It was the Hollies' first US hit,reaching #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 1966. "Bus Stop" was written by songwriter and future 10cc member Graham Gouldman, who also penned major hits for The Yardbirds ("For Your Love") and Herman's Hermits ("No Milk Today"), as well as The Hollies' first venture into the US top 40 with "Look Through Any Window". In a 1976 interview Gouldman said the idea for the song had come while he was riding home from work on a bus. The opening lines were written by his father, playwright Hyme Gouldman. Graham Gouldman continued with the rest of the song in his bedroom, apart from the middle-eight, which he finished while riding to work on the bus the next day. Thirty years later he elaborated on the song's beginnings: "'Bus Stop', I had the title and I came home one day and he said 'I've started something on that Bus Stop idea you had, and I'm going to play it for you. He'd written 'Bus stop, wet day, she's there, I say please share my umbrella' and it's like when you get a really great part of a lyric or when you have such a great start to a song it's kind of like the rest is easy. It's like finding your way onto a road and when you get onto the right route, you just follow it.