![]() ![]() Meanwhile, UK music fans were treated to a newly recorded version of “She’s Not There” by someone called Neil MacArthur, who was actually Blunstone. Americans who tried to see the band on tour in 1969 came away even more addled when a dodgy American company sent two impostor bands on the road to perform as the Zombies, one of which included two future members of ZZ Top. ![]() Poorly promoted, the album tanked on both sides of the Atlantic, and Argent dissolved the band.Ī year later, when Odessey single “Time of the Season” shot surprisingly up the American charts, Zombies lead singer Colin Blunstone was back in England selling insurance, and Argent had formed a new band, simply called Argent. Pepper-to record their magnum opus, 1968’s Odessey and Oracle. ![]() But lasting fame was not to be: After spending the next two years trying and failing to duplicate that success with little support from their label, Decca (the same company that infamously declined to sign the Beatles), they took an advance from CBS and holed up in Abbey Road Studios-in the hours that the Beatles weren’t recording Sgt. “The Beatles had just broken America wide open, and there we were to trot along behind,” lead songwriter Rod Argent recalled. The Zombies’ first two singles, the noirish jazz-fusion psychodramas “She’s Not There” and “Tell Her No,” hit the Billboard top 10, making them instant stars-even bigger in the U.S. Albans teens intimated that the future of the UK “beat music” craze might sound less like the hyperactive R&B that made screaming Beatles fans so ecstatic and more like the stuff entrancing hipsters at the coffee shop. At the peak of British Invasion fever, a quintet of bookish St. ![]()
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