S1E55: Colin Blunstone
Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt
Rhino UK
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Joining Gary and Guy in this episode is Zombie and solo artist Colin Blunstone. With a long, illustrious and incredible career, there's much to discuss. From forming The Zombies with school pals, to rapid success with "She's Not There" to an equally quick descent into obscurity, despite the Zombies second album, "Odessey And Oracle" being rated as one of Rolling Stones top 100 albums, and Paul Weller's favourite. For Colin, what followed was a stint in insurance, a brief career under a pseudonym, then a fully-fledged solo career and finally a return to The Zombies who were rewarded with an induction into The Rock 'n Roll Hall Of Fame in 2019. More fascinating stories shared in Rockonteurs.
Produced by Ian Callaghan for Gimme Sugar Limited
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Guy, how are you? I'm good. This is a surprising one this week. It's been a lot of, I don't know, there's some amazing, amazing stuff here that I didn't really know about if I'm honest. |
| 0:10.0 | Yeah, yeah, I feel quite a level of shame about my zombie knowledge, but now I've dug into it. |
| 0:17.8 | Oh my God, I mean, you know, I knew she's not there. |
| 0:20.5 | I knew they only ate brains |
| 0:22.8 | but apart from that. |
| 0:24.8 | Time of the season, you know what I mean? |
| 0:27.4 | But Odyssey and Oracle is a masterpiece. |
| 0:30.8 | It is a masterpiece. |
| 0:31.8 | But this is what we've got to get into because the whole story of that and what happened afterwards is but I'm |
| 0:37.0 | Mind-boggling. It's just bizarre. I think Paul Weller says it's his favorite album of all time. |
| 0:42.7 | Well, something brought it to my attention last year. |
| 0:45.1 | And I don't know, because it was, it's number 100 on the Rolling Stone |
| 0:48.4 | greatest albums of all time. |
| 0:50.3 | And I don't know if I've been looking at that. |
| 0:51.4 | I read about it somewhere. And I want to have a look and it was like |
| 0:53.6 | hang on a minute what's this where's this been? Yeah yeah it's I mean, it's recorded immediately after |
| 1:00.3 | Sergeant Peppers I don't even know what they'd even heard Sergeant Pepper's |
| 1:03.4 | but it's full of English whimsy and Baroque pop it gets made there because all |
| 1:09.4 | the stuff and this this carries on into a cell well obviously you've got those two |
| 1:12.3 | great writers |
| 1:13.2 | well Rod Arj and Russ Balard. Yeah because right from the get-go the music of the zombies and |
| 1:18.9 | carry on through Colin Solo career it's incredibly sophisticated it's extraordinarily |
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