“The Zombies are re-releasing their first four albums via the Q Prime Deal”

The Zombies have hired Q Prime for label and distribution services, it was announced on Tuesday (October 22).

Under the agreement, Q Prime will manage marketing, production, distribution and licensing for 2019 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees’ new label Beechwood Park Records. The imprint covers the seminal British band’s catalog, which the group acquired the rights to from Marquis Enterprises Ltd. last year. has acquired. “There is a very narrow window in a Venn diagram where love, admiration and business intersect. That’s what the deal is about,” said the Q Prime co-founder Cliff Burnstein in a statement.

Starting next year, Q Prime will physically reissue four of The Zombies’ albums, remastered from the original tapes. These include the band’s groundbreaking 1968 album, Odessey and oraclein the original mono mix; Recorded for £1,000, the LP contains the classics “Time of The Season”, “Care of Cell 44” and “This Will Be Our Year”. The release coincides with a new Zombies documentary. Stuck on a dreamdirected by musician and filmmaker Robert Schwartzman and co-produced by Schwartzman’s Utopia Films, The Ranch Productions and Tom Hanks’ Playtone.

Chris Tuthill And Cindy da Silva of The Rocks Management, who have represented the band for 11 years, oversaw the deal along with an attorney Monica Tashman from Loeb & Loeb. “We went through a careful process to find a strategic partner who truly understands the unique qualities of these beloved recordings,” Tuthill said in a statement. “Ultimately we knew we had to stay true to the band’s history. They have always benefited from an unconventional and independent approach to both music and business, which is one of the reasons their songs continue to be rediscovered by new generations of fans.”

After the former publishing director Rick Krim In introducing the management team to Q Prime, da Silva added: “We have been incredibly impressed with the team and infrastructure that Q Prime has put together with its long-standing customers Metallica to maintain and grow their own catalog, and by “Their genuine desire to work with us led the band to do the same for The Zombies.”

The four surviving founding members of the Zombies are lead singer Colin Blunstone, keyboardist Rod Argent, bassist Chris White and drummer Hugh Grundy. The band first appeared on the Billboard charts with 1964’s “She’s Not There,” which reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.