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Happy Birthday Russ Ballard
British singer/songwriter Russ Ballard, born in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, was the lead singer of Argent, for whom he wrote the hit...
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Happy Birthday Rod Argent
Keyboardist/songwriter Rod Argent spent the '60s as a crucial part of underappreciated British Invasion popsters the Zombies, and later...
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Argent
After the Zombies broke up, keyboardist/songwriter Rod Argent formed his own band in 1969, which incorporated more classical, jazz, and...
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The Zombies
Keyboardist Rod Argent, guitarist Paul Atkinson and drummer Hugh Grundy met at St. Albans school in 1961 and began experimenting...