This is an accepted version of this page Mark David Hollis (4 January 1955 – February 2019)[a] was an English musician and singer-songwriter.

The band's final two albums, Spirit of Eden (1988) and Laughing Stock (1991), were radical departures from their early work, taking influence from jazz, folk, classical and experimental music.

While they were commercial failures in their own time, these albums were retrospectively highly critically acclaimed and have come to be seen as early landmarks of post-rock music.

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.

Ed was a disc jockey, producer and manager of several bands, including the pub-rock group Eddie and the Hot Rods.

Emerging in the post-punk era, the Reaction's sound reflected Hollis's interest in early garage rock as found on the 1972 compilation Nuggets.

[18] George Gimarc noted the Reaction's rendition of the song is about twice as fast and has "a completely different feel" than the 1982 version.

[21] He introduced Mark to a wide range of music from garage rock to modal jazz, particularly Miles Davis's collaborations with arranger Gil Evans on Porgy and Bess (1959) and Sketches of Spain (1960).

[37][38] By the time his solo album was released, Hollis had moved back from the countryside to London in order to provide his two sons with a more cosmopolitan environment.

[40] In 2012, a piece of specially commissioned music by Hollis titled "ARB Section 1", was used in the television series Boss.

[41] Hollis performed the solo track "Piano" on the 1998 minimalist album AV 1, by Phill Brown and Dave Allinson, under the pseudonym John Cope.

[43] He also co-produced and arranged two tracks ("The Gown" and "Big Mouth") on Anja Garbarek's 2001 album Smiling & Waving,[44] as well as playing bass guitar, piano and melodica.