The Zombies
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The Zombies: Time Of The Zombies
Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, May 1974
THANKS TO THE SUCCESS of Argent, Colin Blunstone, and the 'Monster Mash', the long-neglected Zombies are again coming to light. London's fluke smash with the ...
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The Zombies' Colin Blunstone (1997)
Interview by Johnny Black, Rock's Backpages audio, September 1997
Colin Blunstone looks back at the Zombies, from their formation in leafy St. Albans, via their first hit 'She's Not There', on to package tours of the US and finally to the crumbling of the band and its aftermath
File format: mp3; file size: 115.9mb, total interview length: 2h 00' 43" sound quality: ****
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The Zombies: The group with the brainpower
Profile and Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 22 August 1964
ALREADY IN the charts with their first sensational release 'She's Not There', the Zombies must be one of the most different groups on the scene. ...
Report and Interview by Sylvia Stephens, Fabulous, 12 June 1965
IT LOOKED like Ready Steady Goes Live. It sounded like Ready Steady Goes Live. It was taking place in the Ready Steady Goes Live studio. ...
The Zombies: The Next 'In' Group
Profile and Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 9 April 1966
SAID ROD ARGENT: "It's a funny thing the way it all works out. All of a sudden we seem to be an 'in' group — ...
The Zombies: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 16 October 1969
Zombies Debut Here but With Some Changes ...
The Zombies: Early Days (London)
Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 15 November 1969
I PERSONALLY used to spend a lot of time in school carving "What's become of the Zombies" on desks. Which is to say that I ...
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Andrew Tyler, Disc, 14 October 1972
Were the Zombies one of the great neglected bands of the '60s? They had their hits, broke up and then created the sort of interest ...
The Zombies: Everything you wanted to know!
Retrospective by Metal Mike Saunders, Fusion, November 1972
HALF A YEAR AGO I would have started this piece by saying that the Zombies, like so many other defunct mid-Sixties groups, have suffered dreadfully ...
Retrospective by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, June 1973
AS ONE of Britain's most undervalued and undeservedly unsuccessful groups, the Zombies have a lot of historical recompense coming. Furthermore, with two offshoots (Argent and ...
Whatever Happened To The Zombies?
Report and Interview by Steven Rosen, Los Angeles Free Press, June 1973
REMEMBER THOSE wispy vocals that adorned those Zombies’ classics like 'She’s Not There', 'Tell Her No', and 'Time Of the Season'? The voice drifted from ...
Colin Blunstone: Back From The Dead
Interview by David Rensin, Creem, August 1973
THE YEAR IS 1969, and somewhere in the heart of America the Archies and Zombies — two groups known to everyone — are triumphantly touring ...
Retrospective and Interview by Robin Platts, Goldmine, 14 April 1995
IT WAS JUST for fun, really. They weren't planning on becoming pop stars, yet the Zombies came close to reaching the top of the American ...
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, MOJO, November 1997
EVEN THE MOST MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION of early publicity shots of bookish, bespectacled quintet The Zombies yields no clue that these middle class English boys in ...
Zombies: Zombie Heaven (Big Beat/Ace)
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, November 1997
WHAT'S POP magic? A certain quality of feeling; quelque chose de je ne sais quoi; a little bit of soul. To be prosaic: something indefinably ...
Interview by Tom Cox, Uncut, November 1997
Zombie Heaven claims to include 99.5 per cent of everything you ever recorded. There must be a few unheard demos that slipped through the net. ...
Zombie Heaven: Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone
Profile and Interview by Erik Himmelsbach, LA CityBeat, 27 August 2003
MOJO MAGAZINE recently anointed the Zombies the fourth unluckiest band in pop history, largely because it scored its biggest hit, ‘Time of the Season’, more ...
Album of the Living Dead: How the Zombies made Odessey & Oracle
Retrospective and Interview by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 22 February 2008
The Zombies recorded their last album in 1967, released it with a spelling mistake on the cover, then split up. But Odessey & Oracle has ...
Report by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 26 October 2008
Van Morrison's revival of Astral Weeks is the latest example of yesterday's cult LPs being turned into today's sell-out concerts. ...
Why Your Favourite Band Should Split Up
Overview by Jude Rogers, The Guardian, 19 August 2010
From the Pixies to the Zombies, Jude Rogers talks to the bands who chose to burn out, not fade away ...
When Zombies Attack: The Colin Blunstone Interview, Pt. 1
Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 7 March 2013
IN TODAY'S pop culture, zombies are hot. Their lumbering, slack-jawed forms are moving (albeit slowly) on TV and in movies, video games, and off the ...
When Zombies Attack: The Colin Blunstone Interview, Part 2
Retrospective and Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 8 March 2013
MUCH OF THE Zombies' music, even early on, was original material mostly written by Rod Argent and Chris White. It's something that Colin Blunstone still ...
The privileged are taking over the arts – without the grit, pop culture is doomed
Comment by Stuart Maconie, New Statesman, 4 February 2015
With school music spending down and the benefits system crippled, the voices of pop have lost their bite. ...
The Zombies: An Interview with Rod Argent
Interview by Jim Sullivan, Cape Cod Times, October 2015
SAY THIS about the Zombies: They were ahead of the curve. We live in a world where you can't turn on the TV or go ...
10 Unjustly Overlooked British Invasion Albums (1964–1966)
Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, September 2016
SO MANY artists in the tsunami of music from the U.K. that flooded America in the mid-'60s went on to make extraordinary albums over a ...
The Zombies Still Have That Hunger — For Music, Not Brains
Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 26 April 2017
THE YEAR 2017 is a good time to be a Zombie — of the musical singing and playing kind, not necessarily the walking dead variety. ...
Cruisin' with Justin & the Fudge: Five Days at Sea with the Rock Boomers
Report by Mark Leviton, Rock's Backpages, February 2019
"I've realized audiences aren't listening to the lyrics of my first song – they're too busy trying to figure out how old I look..." Al ...
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