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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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AUDIO: 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; in 4 parts, total file sizes: 106.7meg, total interview length: 1h 56' 26" sound quality: ****
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The Zombies: Early Days (London)
Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 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 ...
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, LA Free Press, June 1973
REMEMBER THOSE wispy vocals that adorned those Zombies classics like 'Shes Not There', 'Tell Her No', and 'Time Of the Season'? The voice drifted from ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Zombie Heaven: Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone
Profile and Interview by Erik Himmelsbach, LA CityBeat, 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 ...
Why Your Favourite Band Should Split Up
Overview by Jude Rogers, Guardian, The, August 2010
From the Pixies to the Zombies, Jude Rogers talks to the bands who chose to burn out, not fade away ...
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