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After the formation of The Zombies, his parents were supportive of his involvement in the band as a hobby but encouraged him to pursue banking and only after they saw the first stages of success of the band, they acknowledged the chance of a prosperous career for him in music.

An interesting fact is that it was actually his mother, Aileen Grundy, who helped to create and ran the fan club of the band. His birthplace — Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England. His father was an aeronautical engineer, and his mother — a housewife and a former dancer. He joined the band while they were all still at school. He initially used a false name and released three singles in , by the pseudonym of Neil MacArthur. So far, he has rehearsed ten studio albums and one live album.

His family moved to Markyate, Hertfordshire and owned a general store in the village, where they sold groceries, paint, furniture and so on. His father gave him his first lesson guitar lesson, as he also played bass as a hobby and was playing the music of Glenn Miller and more swing bands. After the initial bass guitar player, Paul Arnold, left the band, Chris White was the one to replace him and eventually became one of the two main songwriters of The Zombies, alongside Paul Argent.

Following the break-up of the band in , among other things, he also produced and contributed songwriting to Colin Blunstone in his solo career and to the band of Rod Argent, called Argent. He asked his cousin, Jim Rodford, to join them as a bass player, but as he already was in another band that was doing good at that time, he declined. Despite that, he offered his help, and he eventually joined the band when they regrouped in They were using a borrowed equipment from the Bluetones, the band whose member was Jim Rodford.

The first name of the band was The Mustangs, but as they found out that it was already used by others, they renamed themselves The Zombies. Later on, Arnold left them to become a physician, and Chris White took his place. They participated and won a beat-group competition and were signed with Decca. The song sold over one million copies! After their hit single, they started touring in the United States, where they had days playing seven performances. Years: Inducted into the Rock Hall: What can we say besides the world loved them, yeah, yeah, yeah — and it was never the same after that plane touched down in New York 50 years ago?

Unlike many of the British Invasion bands, the Beatles seemed to get better every year, as they honed and refined their increasingly sophisticated sound. Years : Album highlights: "Meet the Beatles" ; "Revolver" ; "Sgt. Inducted into the Rock Hall : Years: a lineup with drummer Barry Whitman continues to tour. Album highlights: "Herman's Hermits" ; "Mrs. Inducted to the Rock Hall: No. The Hollies: Merseybeat met lush three-part harmonies in the chart-topping sound of this suave Manchester-area group formed by Graham Nash who left in They spent weeks on the U.

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