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(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
UNIDENTIFIED ANNOUNCER: Now this is a bunch which has solely skilled average success right here in Britain, however which has had a number of large hits within the States. Singing “For You,” we current The Zombies.
THE ZOMBIES: (Singing) For you, my love, I would do most something.
BIANCULLI: People have been proper about The Zombies, whose first document, the nonetheless spooky “She’s Not There,” made all of it the best way to No. 2 on the Billboard pop chart in 1964. In England, the identical single topped out at No. 12. 5 years later, by the point the group scored its largest hit with “She’s Not There,” The Zombies already had damaged up, however they left their mark. The Zombies have been inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame in 2019, they usually’re now the topic of a brand new documentary titled “Hung Up On A Dream,” directed by Robert Schwartzman. Terry Gross spoke with the lead singer of The Zombies, Colin Blunstone, in 1998, when a field set – additionally titled Hung Up on a Dream – had simply been launched. It accommodates singles, uncommon and unreleased tracks, and appearances on BBC Radio. This is The Zombies’ first single.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “SHE’S NOT THERE”)
THE ZOMBIES: (Singing) Properly, nobody informed me about her, the best way she lied. Properly, nobody informed me about her, how many individuals cried. But it surely’s too late to say you are sorry. How would I do know? Why ought to I care? Please do not hassle looking for her. She’s not there. Properly, let me inform you about the best way she seemed, the best way she’d act and the colour of her hair. Her voice was gentle and funky. Her eyes have been clear and shiny. However she’s not there.
Properly, nobody informed me about her. What might I do? Properly, nobody informed me about her, although all of them knew. But it surely’s too late to say you are sorry. How would I do know? Why ought to I care? Please do not hassle looking for her. She’s not there. Properly, let me inform you about the best way she seemed, the best way she’d act and the colour of her hair. Her voice was gentle and funky. Her eyes have been clear and shiny. However she’s not there.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST)
TERRY GROSS: Colin Blunstone, welcome to FRESH AIR.
COLIN BLUNSTONE: Terry, thanks very a lot.
GROSS: You bought to document this music after The Zombies received a contest in, I assume, St. Albans, the place you have been from. And also you received first prize, and the primary prize was an audition with Decca Data. Inform me concerning the contest.
BLUNSTONE: The competitors was held in Watford City Corridor, which was about 8 miles away from St. Albans, the place all of us went to high school. And Watford City Corridor was fairly an enormous venue for us. It held about 2,000 individuals. And since there have been 10 bands on each evening, all of them had their supporters, and it was completely packed. And it was a bit like a soccer crowd. , all people had banners and bells and rattles, and it was fairly a – type of a wild place to play. And we received our warmth. I believe there have been type of 10 weeks of 10 bands, and the winner acquired via to the ultimate. After which we received the ultimate. It was a magical night. I will always remember it.
GROSS: What did you sing within the remaining competitors?
BLUNSTONE: Oh, I hoped you were not going to ask me that. We sang a Zombies – sorry, a Beatles music, “You Cannot Do That.”
GROSS: Oh.
BLUNSTONE: ? (Singing) I acquired one thing to say which may trigger you ache.
Do you keep in mind that one?
GROSS: Completely. I like that music rather a lot.
BLUNSTONE: Yeah, I do, too. And we sang “Summertime,” which went on our first album, and we did it as a – type of a jazz waltz. It was very jazzy. And we sang a few different songs, and I can not bear in mind what they have been.
GROSS: Why was the group named The Zombies?
BLUNSTONE: Properly, fairly just because we might been – for the primary few weeks of our profession collectively – this was simply once we have been at college. I believe to begin off with, we have been The Mustangs, and we discovered that there are 1,000,000 bands known as The Mustangs. After which we have been The Sundowners, and we had the identical drawback. And Paul Arnold, who was our unique bass participant – there was just one change within the band, and that is whereas we have been nonetheless at college – he got here up with the concept of The Zombies. And I believe all of us thought that nobody else could be…
GROSS: (Laughter).
BLUNSTONE: …Loopy sufficient to name a band The Zombies. And so it actually – I believe that, in a method, it was an act of desperation. We have been simply looking for one thing that nobody else would have considered. So we ended up as The Zombies.
GROSS: What do you suppose outlined The Zombies’ sound?
BLUNSTONE: Properly, I believe a number of the sound actually comes from the writers. We had two distinctive writers within the band and really prolific writers, as effectively. And I believe probably – particularly Rod Argent. His writing, his songs have been, I believe, effectively, actually great. I believe they have been good songs. And he additionally was an excellent keyboard participant, so you bought these nice keyboard breaks that he would preserve placing into songs. Additionally, he was a really achieved musician, even at an early age. He understood rather a lot about music, which – actually he was in a unique league to me. So a number of our chord progressions and the bass notes we placed on the underside of chords have been fairly uncommon.
And he additionally understood vocal harmonies as a result of he was within the cathedral choir till he was about 17 or 18. And if we performed a gig on a Sunday evening, we might must go and decide him up in the back of the cathedral, the place he’d been singing in regardless of the factor had been on the cathedral. And he’d must be taking off all his church garments and entering into his rock ‘n’ roll gear, after which we might go off to the rock ‘n’ roll gig. So I believe our harmonies helped to make issues a bit completely different as effectively.
I believe there have been a number of issues that contributed in direction of it. However the songwriting and the vocal harmonies – after which perhaps there’s just a little little bit of the interaction between Rod’s writing and my voice. I imply, each of them – Chris White and Rod Argent – used to jot down songs for my voice.
GROSS: What have been the qualities of your voice that you just suppose they wrote for?
BLUNSTONE: Properly, particularly for these days, I sang in fairly a excessive key, you realize, contemplating – in contrast with a number of different singers. These days, a number of individuals do this. However I believe that was one of many issues. I believe I are likely to sing unhappy songs higher than happy-go-lucky songs, so typically songs would have a type of a haunting high quality about them. “She’s Not There” might be a very good instance. I believe they might search for that. Songs in minor keys maybe could be one other factor they might search for. So a number of little issues all added as much as The Zombies’ sound.
GROSS: Yeah, a number of the songs you sang had extra to do with vulnerability than exhibiting how sturdy you have been (laughter).
BLUNSTONE: Yeah, that is proper. Properly, that is me.
(LAUGHTER)
GROSS: Let’s hear one other one in every of The Zombies’ large hits, and that is “Inform Her No.”
BLUNSTONE: OK.
GROSS: Inform us one thing concerning the music or the session.
BLUNSTONE: I believe, as I bear in mind, we might been touring with Dionne Warwick and – who you’d name Dionne Worwick (ph). And thru that, we might acquired very fascinated by Burt Bacharach songs. And I’ve a sense that Rod Argent, who wrote this music, was going via a interval of being influenced rather a lot by Burt Bacharach.
With regard to the session, we’d document most likely three or 4, perhaps 5 backing tracks in a night at Decca recording studios. After which we’d put vocals on, and it might most likely be 12 o’clock or 1 o’clock at evening earlier than I acquired spherical to singing. And I at all times bear in mind this session as a result of I used to be quick asleep after they completed, they usually woke me as much as sing “Inform Her No.” And in reality, there is a mumbled line in the midst of “Inform Her No” as a result of I used to be half asleep after I was singing it. And I stated, hear, guys, I higher simply do this once more as a result of there’s this mumbled line. They usually stated, oh, no, no, that is high-quality. Don’t be concerned about that. And I’ve heard tales of people that – in bands who’ve been making an attempt to repeat our model of “Inform Her No,” they usually’ve been desperately making an attempt to work out what the lyric is. And I’ve to – after 15 or 30 years or no matter it’s, I’ve to inform them, effectively, you should not have bothered as a result of it is only a mumble, so there is no such thing as a lyric there, actually. It is the…
GROSS: The place is the mumble within the music?
BLUNSTONE: I will go away it to you to seek out out as a result of I can not bear in mind off the highest of my head.
GROSS: Oh, come on.
BLUNSTONE: No, I – actually, I can not bear in mind. It is one thing like – you play the music, after which I will have a give it some thought whilst you’re enjoying.
GROSS: OK. Why do not we play it? You hear in, and then you definately inform us which the road was.
BLUNSTONE: OK.
GROSS: OK.
(SOUNDBITE OF THE ZOMBIES SONG, “TELL HER NO”)
BLUNSTONE: How humorous to listen to this all the best way from America (ph).
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “TELL HER NO”)
THE ZOMBIES: (Singing) And if she ought to inform you come nearer, and if she tempts you together with her charms…
BLUNSTONE: OK, that is all proper. That is high-quality.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “TELL HER NO”)
THE ZOMBIES: (Singing) Inform her, no, no, no, no.
BLUNSTONE: All proper.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “TELL HER NO”)
THE ZOMBIES: (Singing) No-no, no-no, no, no, no, no, no-no, no-no, no, no, no, no, no. Do not damage me now for her love belongs to me. And if she ought to inform you I really like you, and if she tempts you together with her charms…
BLUNSTONE: I believe this may be it.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “TELL HER NO”)
THE ZOMBIES: (Singing) Inform her no, no, no, no. (Vocalizing).
BLUNSTONE: Right here it’s.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “TELL HER NO”)
THE ZOMBIES: (Singing) No-no, no-no, no, no. Do not let her down out of your arms (ph).
BLUNSTONE: That is it.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “TELL HER NO”)
THE ZOMBIES: (Singing) No-no, no-no, no, no, no. (Vocalizing).
BLUNSTONE: Did you hear it?
GROSS: Yeah, so it was the half I at all times…
BLUNSTONE: It type of…
GROSS: Yeah, go forward.
BLUNSTONE: It type of seems like, do not love her love out of your arms or one thing, however actually it is (vocalizing).
(LAUGHTER)
GROSS: I at all times heard it as, do not damage me now from her arms, and I figured, effectively, I do not know what which means, nevertheless it’s all proper. I get the gist of it.
BLUNSTONE: Sure.
(LAUGHTER)
BLUNSTONE: Properly, what it means is it was a fairly sleepy Zombie who was making an attempt to do his greatest however was…
GROSS: (Laughter).
BLUNSTONE: …A bit of bit not with it. He was amongst these not current.
GROSS: I at all times liked your refrain of – you realize, the tell-her-nos together with your whoa-whoa-whoas in it and all that.
BLUNSTONE: Sure.
GROSS: Did you sing it the identical method for every take, or did it at all times come out completely different?
BLUNSTONE: Properly, it wasn’t one thing that was particularly written. It was, OK, Colin, now perform a little little bit of one thing right here. I imply, it most likely would have been related, nevertheless it would not have been precisely the identical.
BIANCULLI: Colin Blunstone chatting with Terry Gross in 1998. Extra after a break. That is FRESH AIR.
That is FRESH AIR. Let’s get again to Terry’s 1998 interview with Colin Blunstone. He was lead singer of the British invasion band, The Zombies. The group is the topic of a brand new documentary titled “Hung Up On A Dream.”
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GROSS: What was it wish to be in the USA and, you realize, billed as a British invasion band? What did that imply to you?
BLUNSTONE: Properly, the shock to me was the response. I imply, I wasn’t notably conscious of the truth that we have been a part of the British invasion. I am undecided if that time period was used – actually to me – on the time. I imply, I do know the expression now. However so I can not actually say I reacted to that phrase after I was there. However what was attention-grabbing to me was the keenness and the large numbers of the followers in America. For all music, I imply, issues have been just a little bit extra primary again right here within the U.Okay. We’d be touring behind an previous van. There have been only a few freeways on this nation. We name them motorways. So we’d be touring on nation lanes, huge distances in a broken-down previous van. It wasn’t terribly glamorous, actually, besides we have been having enjoyable. We have been 18 years previous. What did we care? However then, once we went to America, we have been enjoying to large audiences and really, very enthusiastic audiences that have been screaming and screaming and speeding the stage and tearing our garments off. And it was all fairly thrilling stuff, actually. Very thrilling.
GROSS: Do your greatest to be trustworthy with me about this. What’s it like if you’re 19, you are a younger man, you are simply getting began, you realize, as a person on the earth and sexually and all that. And right here, there’s, like, you go from metropolis…
BLUNSTONE: This sounds very attention-grabbing. I – yeah.
GROSS: Sure, proper. You go from metropolis to metropolis, and girls are screaming and screaming over you. I imply, this should actually provide you with a way of being one thing else, you realize, and simply…
BLUNSTONE: Very fortunate is the…
GROSS: Yeah.
BLUNSTONE: …Expression I used to be pondering of.
GROSS: Proper.
BLUNSTONE: Properly…
GROSS: Sure (laughter).
BLUNSTONE: …I loved it very a lot. Undoubtedly. It was great.
GROSS: Properly, I imply, how a lot did it go to your head and the way – typically that kind of stuff…
BLUNSTONE: Oh, I do not suppose…
GROSS: …Actually deforms individuals’s personalities.
BLUNSTONE: Yeah, I do not suppose it did an excessive amount of in our band, however once more, most likely higher if another person judged it as a result of we type of had intervals of success, and we had intervals of not being so profitable, and we have been introduced right down to Earth with an enormous bump. And likewise, within the band, nobody was allowed to get too carried away. I imply, we might grown up collectively, and anyone who acquired too carried away could be slapped into place fairly shortly. It was very thrilling, and it was nice enjoyable. However all of us nonetheless lived at residence with our mother and father. We nonetheless lived within the little space that we would grown up in, and we weren’t actually allowed to get too carried away.
GROSS: Once you began performing, notably if you came visiting to the States and began performing, did you get a number of recommendation or steerage on what to put on, what sort of haircuts it is best to have? What sort of eyeglasses the blokes within the band ought to put on, all that image-type of stuff?
BLUNSTONE: No, we did not, really. And I believe that image-wise, I believe it was a weak point within the band. I believe, you realize, we have been collectively professionally for 3 years, though we have been collectively for 4 years at college. In direction of the top of the three years, I believe we have been getting the picture factor a bit extra sorted out, nevertheless it had simply been a pure development for us. And I believe that we most likely – we did – we wanted assist, I believe, earlier on. How might or not it’s any completely different? Our first document had been an enormous hit document around the globe, and among the guys had simply left faculty. And I do not understand how a lot different bands considered picture, however we actually did not. And I want that some shrewd character had given us a little bit of assist there.
And then you definately simply talked about spectacles. Two of the blokes wore very heavy rimmed spectacles, and at a time when – if you happen to’re in a teenage band, after all, you wish to look pretty engaging for individuals, and it wasn’t very trendy on the time for younger males in rock bands to put on glasses. And in direction of the center or the top of our skilled profession, Paul Atkinson stopped carrying these heavy rimmed glasses and wore contact lenses, and he was a really handsome lad. And I believe it may need helped us just a little bit if he’d wore contact lenses from the start. However simply little issues like that, I believe we might have seemed into. And I believe additionally, “She’s Not There” is a really charismatic music. It is eerie, nearly might be just a little bit sinister, and I believe we might have labored on that.
GROSS: Proper.
BLUNSTONE: As an alternative of which, we got here with a really jolly little “Inform Her No” quantity for our second document, which was – did not appear to me to comply with “She’s Not There” very effectively, actually.
GROSS: In a single article that I believe was written in American newspaper or journal, an article that is quoted within the liner notes to the brand new Zombies field set, the band was described as clean-cut, quiet, well-mannered, clever. They behave like gents. Was that thought of good or a legal responsibility on the time to…
BLUNSTONE: Properly, it is humorous. Once you met…
GROSS: …To be so clean-cut in your picture, yeah.
BLUNSTONE: Once you met individuals within the media, I believe they fairly appreciated it as a result of we turned up on time and…
GROSS: You did not insult them (laughter).
BLUNSTONE: We did not insult them. We did not spit. And, you realize, however if you really put that into an article, I believe it will probably put individuals off. Folks need rascals and rogues and naughty boys, you realize, then have you learnt what he did? Have you learnt what this man did? Folks love that, you realize? However then they don’t seem to be having to face it firsthand. So in a method, I believe that it went towards us a bit. Thoughts you, I am saying all this with hindsight. I did not notice it on the time. We have been simply making it up as we went alongside.
GROSS: Properly, let’s pause right here and play one thing from the brand new Zombies field set. And this can be a beforehand unissued recording that you just made, I believe, on the BBC, and it is a cowl of Burt Bacharach’s “The Look Of Love.” You had talked about earlier than that the band had – what? – toured with Dionne Warwick?
BLUNSTONE: That is proper, the very first tour we ever did. And we have been improbable Burt Bacharach followers. I believe nonetheless. I nonetheless am an enormous Burt Bacharach fan. He simply writes essentially the most great songs.
GROSS: Have been you pondering of Dionne Warwick if you sang this your self?
BLUNSTONE: No, as a result of the model I would heard was by Dusty Springfield. And I believe she had a success in America with that model, however she did not have a success within the U.Okay. It is humorous how that occurs. , individuals can have hits with a beautiful model of a music in a single nation, and it doesn’t suggest something abroad. Very unusual.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “THE LOOK OF LOVE”)
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: And now you are listening to the candy and swinging sound of The Zombies another time in “The Look Of Love,” written by Burt Bacharach.
THE ZOMBIES: (Singing) The look of affection is in your eyes, a glance your coronary heart can disguise. The look of affection is saying a lot extra than simply phrases might ever say. And what my coronary heart has heard, effectively, it takes my breath away. I can hardly wait to carry you, really feel my arms round you. How lengthy I’ve waited. Waited simply to like you. Now that I’ve discovered you. You have acquired the look of affection is in your face, a glance that point cannot erase. You are mine tonight. May this be simply the beginning of so many nights like this? Let’s make a lover’s vow after which seal it with a kiss. I can hardly wait to carry you, really feel my arms round you. How lengthy I’ve waited. Waited simply to like you. Now that I’ve discovered you, do not ever go. Do not ever go. I really like you so.
BIANCULLI: Colin Blunstone spoke to Terry Gross in 1998. After a break, we’ll proceed their dialog, and we’ll bear in mind director James Foley, who died final week at age 71. His movies embrace “At Shut Vary,” “After Darkish, My Candy” and “Glengarry Glen Ross.” I am David Bianculli, and that is FRESH AIR.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “IF IT DON’T WORK OUT”)
THE ZOMBIES: Good and dry once more (ph), all proper? One, two, three, 4.
(Singing) When she love me, nothing on the earth might contact her loving now. The sunshine of affection has gone. Can I return the enjoyment she’s dreaming of? I do not know. I do not know. But when it do not work out, the tears that I cried, babe (If it do not work out) will not carry her residence (If it do not work out). If it do not work out. Will she nonetheless take care of me the best way she did earlier than? Properly, she rotated and inform me she do not love me anymore. I do not know. I do not know. That is FRESH AIR. I am David Bianculli, professor of tv research at Rowan College. Let’s get again to Terry’s 1998 interview with Colin Blunstone, lead singer of the British band The Zombies. The group’s hits included “She’s Not There,” “Inform Her No” and “Time Of The Season.”
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST)
GROSS: The final hit that The Zombies had, “Time Of The Season,” was from an album known as “Odessey And Oracle.” It is an album that did not promote effectively in any respect in the USA. And the hit single, “Time Of The Season,” I believe was launched lengthy after the album had already type of bombed.
BLUNSTONE: I do know.
GROSS: What’s the story behind why this document got here out in the best way that it did?
BLUNSTONE: Properly, I imply, it actually intrigues me as a result of I typically suppose that data have a lifetime of their very own, as a result of all the pieces was towards this document. We recorded it for CBS Data in London. They’d solely simply began out. They have been fairly a small firm in London, they usually gave us a really restricted price range. I believe it was a thousand kilos, which even in these days was a really small price range for doing an album. And there wasn’t a number of enthusiasm. We would had fairly a couple of flop singles. We would simply come again from a disastrous tour of the Far East. And we went into the studio, recorded this album, and there actually wasn’t an excellent response within the U.Okay. And I do not suppose – in America, they did not wish to launch it in any respect.
However Al Cooper from Blood Sweat and Tears was in London, and he simply purchased a number of albums, took them again to America. And he wrote the sleeve notes on this album in America, and he simply felt that this album stood out from all the pieces that he introduced again from the U.Okay. So he alone is answerable for what occurred with “Time Of The Season” as a result of I believe CBS had given up on this album. However he stated, hear, this can be a great album. It’s essential to launch it. Once you consider how main document corporations get behind some data or some acts – they usually put a number of cash into promotion and advertising, and doubtless the band have simply come off an enormous hit as effectively, and so you realize that one thing’s going to occur with this document. “Time Of The Season” had no proper to be a success, however I am very, very glad that it was a success.
And even within the studio – I inform this as a narrative towards myself. I did not actually just like the music, and I did not wish to sing it. And it had been written roughly within the morning earlier than we recorded it, and I wasn’t too certain of the precise melody. And it is a Rod Argent music. And he is very emphatic that when he writes a melody, he needs it precisely as he wrote it, and fairly so. I imply, I agree with him. It needs to be like that. And Rod and I had a set, too, within the studio. It was in Studio Three at Abbey Highway. And he needed this music completely as he wrote it, and I stored making little errors. And I stated to him, Rod, hear. If you understand how to sing it, you are available right here, and also you sing it. And he stated to me – thoughts you, the language is just a little bit richer, I hasten so as to add.
GROSS: (Laughter).
BLUNSTONE: He stated to me, Colin, you are the singer. You sing it. And it went on from there. It was fairly a fiery second. However, I imply, I am actually glad that I – he made me stand there and sing it. I might be very upset if I hadn’t executed it.
GROSS: Properly, let’s hear it. That is The Zombies, “Time Of The Season.”
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “TIME OF THE SEASON”)
THE ZOMBIES: (Singing) It is the time of the season when love runs excessive. On this time, give it to me straightforward. And let me attempt with pleasured palms to take you within the solar to promised lands, to point out you everybody. It is the time of the season for loving. What’s your title? Who’s your daddy? Is he wealthy like me? Has he taken any time to point out you what you could dwell? Inform it to me slowly. Inform you what, I actually wish to know. It is the time of the season for loving.
GROSS: So what was the situation of the band by the point this document grew to become an enormous hit?
BLUNSTONE: Properly, Rod Argent and Chris White had been very profitable as songwriters for The Zombies and for different artists as effectively. And I believe that had fired their enthusiasm, they usually knew they needed to remain within the music enterprise. However for the opposite three, I imply, we have been actually struggling simply financially as a result of our concert events have been few and much between. Our data weren’t promoting. And we have been, fairly frankly, going broke. And so it was getting increasingly tough for us.
On high of that, we had labored completely solidly for 3 years. There have been no type of three weeks touring right here after which six months off or one thing like that – we labored solidly. And simply talking personally, I believe I used to be very, very drained and just a bit bit disenchanted with the best way issues had gone, remembering that we began off with a No. 1 hit document, a gold document, “She’s Not There.” And from there on in, we appeared to have steadily slipped down the hill of success, or nonetheless one explains it.
And so I believe, personally, I used to be feeling very disenchanted. And I bear in mind we have been having a rehearsal. Rod Argent and Chris White have been sharing a flat, and we have been having a rehearsal there. And Paul Atkinson stated, hear, guys, I simply suppose that is sufficient for me. , I believe I would like to maneuver on and do one thing else. And Rod stated, effectively, hear, if one man goes to depart, I believe we should always all maybe get out and take a look at new issues. And I stated nothing. I simply stored my head down and thought, oh, my God, what’s occurring?
GROSS: (Laughter).
BLUNSTONE: And I simply went out for a protracted stroll.
GROSS: When “Time Of The Season” got here out, did all people within the band suppose, effectively, perhaps we should always really stick collectively in any case?
BLUNSTONE: Properly, sadly, the band had completed no less than an hour – no less than an hour? – no less than a 12 months earlier than “Time Of The Season” was a success. And in that point, all people was doing very various things, and actually, on the time, it felt impractical for us to get again collectively once more. Once more, with the good thing about hindsight, I believe it might’ve been executed if all people had needed to do it.
GROSS: Colin Blunstone, it is actually simply been a pleasure to speak with you. I thanks very a lot…
BLUNSTONE: Properly, thanks, Terry.
GROSS: …For being with us.
BLUNSTONE: Yeah, it has been enjoyable.
BIANCULLI: Colin Blunstone chatting with Terry Gross in 1998. He led the unique Zombie invasion as lead singer of the British group The Zombies, which had a number of hits within the Nineteen Sixties. A brand new documentary concerning the group, titled “Hung Up On A Dream,” has simply been launched. Arising, we bear in mind filmmaker James Foley, who died final week at age 71. His movies embrace “Glengarry Glen Ross,” a David Mamet play presently being revived on Broadway. That is FRESH AIR.
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