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Rolling Stone Music Now

The Zombies: The Rolling Stone Interview

Rolling Stone Music Now

Rolling Stone | Cumulus Podcast Network

Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

41K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

To celebrate their induction into the Rock and Roll of Fame, the Zombies' Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone sit down with host Brian Hiatt for a frank, hilarious discussion of their entire career Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music now and I'm really excited to be in the studio with the zombies.

0:10.0

Rod Arjun and Colin Blundstone.

0:12.0

Hi guys.

0:13.0

It's great to be here, thanks, Brian.

0:15.0

And they are about to be inducted by the time you hear this,

0:18.0

they may have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall

0:21.0

Fame.

0:22.0

Congratulations.

0:22.5

Thanks very much.

0:23.5

It's really, really exciting,

0:25.1

and we're absolutely thrilled to be here.

0:26.7

For the sake of our listeners who cannot see you,

0:29.0

if you could just say who you are and what you do in the zombies.

0:33.0

Okay, I'm Colin Blonstone, I'm the lead singer in the zombies and have been since about

0:37.8

1961.

0:39.8

Yeah and I'm Rod Arjun, I was the lead singer for about 20 minutes in our first rehearsal in

0:47.1

1961. Was it really just the first rehearsal because it? Yeah, yeah, that's when Colin I met. you know we've been friends all our lives I didn't

0:54.2

know him at all but we took a coffee break in the middle of the rehearsal we've

0:57.2

been doing an instrumental Rob being the lead singer he hadn't done anything at that point

1:01.3

and he went over to a broken old piano in the

1:03.8

corner of the room and he played nut rocker by B Bumble and the Stingers.

1:08.1

And I was absolutely amazed he was so far ahead of what we were doing I I didn't know him, but I said you have to play keyboards in the band and he said no

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