The Zombies photographed in west London in 1965.
Wise Music Group has purchased the Marquis, Verulam and Mistletoe Melodies music publishing companies from
The Bocu Group, in the process acquiring publishing rights to the works of influential rock band The Zombies.
Included in the purchase are several tracks written by The Zombies Rod Argent, including the Hot 100 No. 2 hit She s Not There from the group’s 1964 debut album
Begin Here and the tracks Tell Her No, Care of Cell 44 and Time of the Season from their 1968 masterpiece
Odessey and Oracle. The sale also includes This Will Be Our Year and “Hold Your Head Up” (both penned by band member Chris White) and God Gave Rock and Roll to You,” a song performed by Argent’s post-Zombies band Argent (written by that group’s Russ Ballard and later covered by Kiss).
Ed Roland for future releases.
Collective Soul have released a total of ten studio albums, including the multi-platinum sellers
Hints, Allegations & Things Left Unsaid and Collective Soul; the platinum-selling
Dosage; and the gold-selling
Blender. The group’s debut single “Shine” peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100, with other successful singles including “December,” “The World I Know,” “Where The River Flows,” “Precious Declaration, “Listen” and “Heavy,” all of which hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart.
Roland – also the founder, frontman and primary songwriter of the band Sweet Tea Project – started his music career as a sound engineer and producer before releasing his debut album
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1966 - George Harrison married Patti Boyd with Paul McCartney as Best man. George had first met Patti on the set of The Beatles movie A Hard Day s Night . George wrote Something and I need You about her. She left Harrison in the mid- 70s and started an affair with Harrison s friend Eric Clapton, who wrote the song Layla about her. Wonderful Tonight as well. The two married in May 1979, but split in 1988.
1968 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience began recording their cover of Bob Dylan s All Along the Watchtower at Olympic Studios in London. Their cover later went on to be their only top 40 single in the U.S. “[Hendrix] took some small songs of mine that nobody paid any attention to and brought them up into the outer limits of the stratosphere, turned them all into classics,” Dylan said in a 2015 speech (via Rolling Stone). “I have to thank Jimi. I wish he was here.”