“I knew we had an album to do – it was going to be on In Deep – so I was writing a lot about my thoughts at the time and feeling optimistic. So when he asked me to be in the band, it gave me a profile and Rod asked, ‘Have you got any songs?’ That was a very sophisticated song, chords, mood, production, arrangement… everything. US chart position: –“The strange thing is, when Rod Argent was in The Zombies, he was writing at 17 years old and coming up with She’s Not There, which was No 1 in America and Top 20 here. Over to Russ to explain how the power ballad resulted from a period of optimism and a recurring love of minor keys… It was their third UK Top 40 single, but the song also reached the Top 10 in 1991 when it was covered by the American hard rock band Kiss, after featuring on the soundtrack to the movie Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey. The Hertfordshire-born musician’s outstanding back catalogue has been mined and recorded by everyone from Rainbow to Hot Chocolate to America to Elkie Brooks to Three Dog Night and many, many more.īut his own first hit record was 1973’s God Gave Rock And Roll To You with Argent, the British rock group he founded with the former Zombies keyboardist Rod Argent. Since You’ve Been Gone, You Can Do Magic, New York Groove, So You Win Again, No More The Fool, Liar… Russ Ballard’s songs are on permanent heavy rotation the world over. The feelgood anthem that became a hit in two decades for two different bands was inspired by Cliff Richard
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