The Zombies: The Class Act
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 matching velveteen jerkins would be the leading characters in a saga of Nordic love goddesses, dirty double dealings, gun-toting pop chicks and Filipino gangsters that Ian Fleming might have rejected as improbable.
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