The Undead Tour: How The Fake Zombies Fooled America

Chameleon

audiochuck | Campside Media

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.6 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

A British band called The Zombies had a smash hit single in America with ‘Time of the Season’ in the late 60s. Shortly afterwards, four handsome Texans hit the road pretending to be the Zombies. This is the unbelievable true story of rock’s most brazen imposters… two of whom went on to form ZZ Top.

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0:00.0	Campsite Media
0:02.9	Hello?
0:06.6	What is, so, what do you want me to say?
0:08.0	Oh, it's just a...
0:10.0	Camelian.
0:11.0	Camellian weekly.
0:13.0	Oh.
0:18.0	Back in the mid-1960s, a wave of floppy-haired British music acts crashed onto our shores,
0:27.9	soaking America with a whole new kind of pop and rock and roll.
0:31.6	It became known as the British invasion, and the leaders of this invading force were, unquestionably, the Beatles.
0:37.1	The members witnessed the excitement stirred by these junksers from Liverpool,
0:40.1	who call themselves the Beatles.
0:41.6	Now, tonight, you're going to twice be entertained by them.
0:44.4	Right now and again on the second half of our show, ladies and gentlemen, the Beatles.
0:53.5	But this was just a tidal wave of talent.
0:56.9	The Rolling Stones, the Who, the kinks, plus plenty of moderately to much less famous acts,
1:03.5	including a five piece from the outskirts of London that called themselves the zombies.
1:08.1	They had two huge hits in 64 and 65.
1:11.9	This is Daniel Ralston, a writer and bartender who lives in Los Angeles and who has become a sort of zombies ologist the past half dozen years.
1:20.2	She's not bare.
1:23.5	Well, let me tell you about the way she loved, the way she had to have the color of her. And tell her no.
1:30.7	And tell her no.
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