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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Colin blunstone - What They Never Told You

"You're never too old to learn a bit about technique." Colin Blunstone on The Zombies, keeping it in the family, and looking after what Suzannah Hoffs calls his "just plain sexy" voice

It’s that time of the season - Zombies singer Colin Blunstone is touring the UK this month

Louder

"Highly listenable background music." The Alan Parsons Project bake up the ear candy on Eye In The Sky like punk, NWOBHM and new wave pop rock never happened

Alan Parsons' most commercially successful album bore fruit with the sports anthem Sirius and the hits Eye In The Sky and Old And Wise

Louder

“An irate fan pulled a gun on them in their dressing room. They stopped using our name immediately”: How a fake version of a popular British band managed to deceive American fans

The odd tale of how a counterfeit version of the Zombies capitalised on the group's US success after the original band called it quits

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The Zombies announce documentary screenings for June and July

The Zombies: Hung Up On A Dream documentary is set for UK-wide release across all video platforms from July

Louder

Hung Up on a Dream: The Zombies Documentary review – happy-sad tale of 60s psychedelic rockers

Robert Schwartzman examines how five friends from the home counties ended up as part of the British invasion of the US music scene

The Guardian - UK

“When the hits dried up they made a poignant, multi-layered swansong for the 60s”: The Zombies’ final album Odessey And Oracle is a proto-prog classic

Nothing is as it seems in Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone’s melodic and Mellotronic 1968 concoction, which ends with the song that split them up

Louder

“They didn’t understand how important image was – they started the thing about us being academic geeks. It really hurt us”: The Zombies on living large, inheriting the Beatles’ studio and staff, and being prisoners in a concert hall

Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent look back on finding fame in their teens and experiencing the highs and lows of the music industry over six decades

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“Originally we said, ‘Let’s make an album about witchcraft’… but I supposed pyramid power was a sort of witchcraft, so we zeroed in on that”: When The Alan Parsons Project mixed magic with madness (without visiting Egypt)

Box set edition gives former Beatles and Pink Floyd engineer the chance to recall the crazy times and ambitious attitude that resulted in 1978’s Pyramid

Louder

"Meticulously unravelling the album's complexities": The Alan Parsons Project's Pyramid, decompiled and recompiled

Taking the pyramid to pieces

Louder

The Zombies’ Rod Argent announces retirement from touring following stroke

The keyboardist and vocalist formed the band in St Albans in 1961

The Independent UK

Alan Parsons Project to release Super Deluxe Pyramid box set

Seven-disc deluxe reissue of Alan Parsons Project's 1978 album Pyramid will be released in August

Louder

John Lennon wanted to produce them, Pat Metheny said he wouldn’t have played jazz fusion without them, and Rick Wakeman claimed he played the greatest organ solo ever: Rod Argent looks back on his time with the Zombies and Argent

Rod Argent was the founding member of The Zombies and Argent and collaborated with some of the best-known names in music, including Phil Collins and The Who. And now the Zombies are reanimated and ready for another bite of success…

Louder

The Lemon Twigs have backed The Zombies and played with Todd Rundgren: they also drive each other crazy

Brothers in a band often spells trouble, but Baroque/power-poppers The Lemon Twigs have found the secret of happily co-existence

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