S9E10: Rod Argent joins Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Interviews, Rock, Pop, Music

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Rockonteurs podcast, we welcome an artist who continues to enjoy a career that spans 5 decades. Founder of The Zombies and Argent, it’s Rod Argent.

Rod met his fellow Zombies at school and shares tales of their musical coming together as he went from the bands intended lead singer to keyboardist with former Rockonteur Colin Blunstone leading on vocals.

Unforgettable hits such as 'She’s No There’ and ‘Time of the Season’ remain some of the all-time classics and have enjoyed a recent resurgence in popularity through streaming and TikTok and covers. Rod is taking a break from touring for the time being but took some time out to chat to us.

Find out more at www.RodArgent.com

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0:00.0	If you like listening to Rockonteurs, then we would love you to subscribe to us permanently.
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0:09.2	Hello, Gary.
0:09.9	Hello, Guy. It's nice to have a little Rockonteurs evening out, wasn't it?
0:14.0	We did have very much a works outing, down to Riverside Studios to a screening of the immediate family.
0:22.4	You invited me, so tell the listeners what it was about.
0:26.3	What it was about was that I just couldn't find literally anyone else to go.
0:31.5	So that's why, oh, I see you meant the film.
0:33.5	Right.
0:33.9	Yeah, yeah.
0:35.4	No, it was, obviously I'd ask for you to come.
0:38.6	In fact, the ticket was in your name, Gary.
0:40.2	The immediate family is a documentary made by Denny Tedeschi.
0:46.3	That's easy for you to say.
0:47.7	He's the son of Tommy Tedeski, who's the legendary guitarist from the wrecking crew.
0:53.0	And he made a documentary. There was a great film about the wrecking crew. And he made a documentary.
0:54.8	There was a great film about the wrecking crew.
0:56.7	These were, of course, the legendary 60s musicians
0:58.6	who played on every record from like Frank Sinatra to pet sounds and all points in
1:03.6	between.
1:04.2	And then the next generation of guys are these guys who are known as the section,
1:09.0	which was Russ Kunkel,
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