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5 unusual facts about The Zombies


A Rose for Emily

The Zombies' "A Rose for Emily" is a short retelling of the story in song form.

Beechwood Park School

Beechwood Park gave its name to a song by The Zombies, written by the group's bassist Chris White, who grew up in Markyate.

Fender Vibratone

Since its introduction, many groups like The Beatles, The Byrds, The Zombies, Blind Faith, as well as guitarists like Mike Campbell, David Gilmour, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, all have used the Vibratone in their recordings.

Rhyme or Reason

The song was produced by the album's executive producer Rick Rubin and written by Eminem and Rod Argent of The Zombies.

The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka

The flashback features authentic period music, however, as we can hear Time of the Season of The Zombies.


Beechwood Park

Beechwood Park is also the title of a song from The Zombies 1967 album, Odessey and Oracle, however this refers to the place of the same name in Markyate, Hertfordshire as the group's bassist grew up nearby.

Parrot Records

The label usually licensed (or leased) recordings made by Decca Records, England for the release in the USA and Canada, most notably by The Zombies, Tom Jones, Engelbert Humperdinck, Them, Jonathan King, Hedgehoppers Anonymous, Lulu, Bobby "Boris" Pickett (reissued from Garpax), Savoy Brown, Alan Price, Love Sculpture (reissued from EMI) and Frijid Pink.


see also

Dead Rising 2

Rebecca reveals the cause of the gas seems to be in the underground access tunnels, and Chuck finds a hidden facility where pharmaceutical company Phenotrans, the makers of Zombrex, is harvesting the zombies.

Marvel Zombies

In July of the same year, a one-shot graphic novel, Marvel Zombies: Dead Days provided more story details, and the zombies also appear in a three-part storyline in Black Panther vol.

Teenage Zombies

As with similar zombie-films of this era (such as Bela Lugosi's Bowery at Midnight), the zombies in this film are markedly unlike those portrayed in contemporary zombie-films.