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Rod Argent
British rock musician
Musical artist
Rodney Terence Argent (born 14 June 1945) is an English musician. In a career spanning more than 50 years, Argent came to prominence in the mid-1960s as the keyboardist, founder and leader of the rock band the Zombies,[1] and went on to form the band Argent after the first break-up of the Zombies.[2]
Argent is one of the main composers of the Zombies' music and made major lyrical contributions to the band's songs. As the band's keyboardist he used a variety of instruments, including Hohner Pianet, Mellotron, harpsichord, and organ.
In addition to his work with the Zombies and Argent, Argent has made music for television series, been a session musician, produced albums by other artists, and had a solo career which has included three studio albums: Moving Home, Red House, and Classically Speaking. Argent was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Zombies in Brooklyn in March 20
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Rod was born in 1945 in St. Albans. His early musical education consisted of a couple of years piano lessons and several years as a member of St.Albans Cathedral Choir.
In 1956, he heard Elvis sing ‘Hound Dog’, and in that moment fell in love with rock ’n’ roll.
He soon went to his first live gig — featuring his older cousin Jim Rodford (later to play bass with ‘Argent’, and now playing with ‘The Kinks’) on tea chest bass. Starstruck, he knew that he somehow had to be part of what was going on, and immediately vowed that one day he would have his own group. Three years later, at the age of 16, he formed ‘The Zombies’.
During the whole of this period, however, although he was totally immersed in the rock ’n’ roll and pop music explosion of the ’50’s and early ’60’s, he was still avidly drinking in all the other great music he could find, particularly exploring areas of jazz typified by the Mile Davis/Bill Evans groups of the period, along with the whole landscape of European class
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Rodney Terence Argent, born 14 June 1945, is an English keyboardist, singer, songwriter and record producer. In a career that's spanned more than half a century, Argent has outlasted countless musical and cultural changes in order to remain true to his own distinctive muse.
Argent first experienced pop stardom early in life with British Invasion legender The Zombies, explored progressive-rock experimentalism with the '70s band that bears his surname, composed for spelfilm and television, and more recently reemerged with a revived utgåva of The Zombies, the fabled combo (and 2019 Rock and Roll ingång of Fame inductee) that first put him on the map in the heady days of the 1960s.
Argent's musical adventures began early in life, in his hometown of St. Albans in Hertfordshire, where he absorberad jazz, classical and early rock 'n' roll, while singing in the St. Albans Cathedral Choir. During his early teens, with encouragement from his cousin Jim Rodf