The Zombies have enlisted Q Prime for label and distribution services, it was announced on Tuesday (October 22).
Under the deal, Q Prime will handle marketing, manufacturing, distribution and licensing for the 2019 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee's new imprint, Beechwood Park Records. The imprint includes the catalog of the pioneering British band, whose rights the band acquired last year from Marquis Enterprises Ltd. “There is a very narrow window in a Venn diagram where love, admiration and business overlap. That's what the deal is about,” said the Q Prime co-founder Cliff Bernstein in a statement.
Starting next year, Q Prime will of course reissue four of the Zombies albums, remastered from the original tapes. This includes the seminal 1968 album, Odessey & Oraclein its original mono mix. the LP, which was recorded for £1,000, includes the classics 'Time of The Season', 'Care of Cell 44' and 'This Will Be Our Year'. Its release will coincide with a new Zombies documentary, He hung himself in a dreamdirected by musician and director 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 the past 11 years, oversaw the deal along with a lawyer Monica Tasman of Loeb & Loeb. “We went through a painstaking process to find a strategic partner who truly understood 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 a non-traditional and independent approach to both music and business, which is one of the reasons their songs are constantly being discovered by new generations of fans.”
Then former publishing executive Rick Crim introducing the management team at Q Prime, da Silva added, “We've been incredibly impressed with the team and infrastructure that Q Prime has put together with long-time clients Metallica to nurture and grow their own catalog and their genuine desire to work together with us and the band to do the same for The Zombies.”
The four surviving founding members of the Zombies are singer Colin Blunstone, keyboardist Rod Argent, bassist Chris White and drummer Hugh Grundy. The band first appeared in Billboards with 1964's “She's Not There,” which reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.
