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String driven thing
How an exhausted insurance clerk made a baroque’n’roll classic.
By Jim Irvin.
Colin Blunstone: what a difference a year made.
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thought, ‘That’s it then, I’ve done pop music,’ and signed up to become a clerk in a company selling insurance.
THE ZOMBIES formed in St. Albans as schoolboys, had their first worldwide hit with She’s Not There in 1964 and then, after three years’ solid touring, problems with management and nobody wanting to issue their brilliant Odessey & Oracle album, fell apart in 1968.
At that point, singer Colin Blunstone was, he once told me, “An exhausted 22-year-old, drained mentally, emotionally and physically.” And given that it was still a relatively new form, it’s no wonder he