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Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees, The Zombies reveal their all-star supergroup

Colin:  But I would go for the writers, and so, you know, I'd have Elton on keyboards, McCartney on bass, uh, Dave Grohl on drums, um, and, uh, gui- and Eric, uh, Clapton on guitar.  OK, so, can you arrange that?

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Rod:  To actually finally make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is, well, it's just a huge honor.  It, it really is.  I mean, it, it's felt fantastic enough in the last five years to have been nominated four times.  I mean, we weren't looking for that, and that felt fantastic.

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Hugh:  I was actually sat in a bar where I live, and I'm fortunate enough to live in Spain, in a[n] island called Menorca, and, my wife and I were in the bar.  The phone call came, and I, I instantly just choked up with the ab-, the beauty of it and the surprise and everything else.  It was wonderful.  And I was told- the, the person [at] the other end, who's not a million miles away from me, said, "Maybe you should buy everybody a drink in the bar."  Well, the bar was empty except for us.

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Rod:  So many people have said, and, and really quite famous people have said, you know, "We were so influenced by all the stuff that you've done," and that's always a huge surprise and shock to me because when I listen back to what we've done, it just sounds like us.

Chris:  Yeah.

Colin:  Yeah.

Rod:  You know?

Colin:  And al- I'm- and also, it's so great to have things in films and TV.  It's the equivalent of having a hit record, really.  It's another way of, of reaching your audience.

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Chris:  I know what I was gonna say about [how] I knew it might have had some influence after we split up.

Rod:  Yeah.

Chris:  I was at a party with, uh, in Lo- Bel, in Bel Air, and Jimi Hendrix was- I was at the bar with him, and he said, "Oh, yes, the Zombies.  You did-" and he sang "Time of the Season" to me at the bar.  Now, not many people can say that basically.  I knew that, that we had made some little mark, you know?

Rod:  But we also heard that John Lennon had said, "I wish I could have produced-" uh, that's, that was the story.

Chris:  That's one, yes, yeah, he said, "I'd like to produce them."

Rod [overlapping with Chris's last comment]:  "I wish I could produce them."

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Colin:  I like to think sometimes that we're passing the baton because, obviously, there are people who influenced us, the rock greats, uh, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, and then the Beatles, who were a huge influence on us, and hopefully we took the baton and ran with it, and now, we've reached the autumn of our careers.

Rod:  Well, Colin has, yeah.

Colin:  We're passing the baton on.  So I hope they don't bloody drop it.

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