I can lay clain to actually getting to know one of the Hollies, original bass player Eric Haydock opened a guitar shop in the town where I lived in the UK, I was working as a local guitar teacher and had an add in his shop and bought my supplies (strings etc) there..
I was in there one afternoon and he asked me if I wanted a coffee, we sat in his back room chatting about people like John Lennon and ray davies, both of whom he knew from the 60's, I realized this was the closest I would ever get to The Beatles.