Rod Argent - Red House (1988)

Rod Argent (born Rodney Terence Argent, 14 June 1945, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England) was a founding member of the 1960s English pop group The Zombies and the 1970s band Argent.
While at St Albans School, he met Paul Atkinson and Hugh Grundy. The three of them joined up with Colin Blunstone and Chris White to form The Zombies.
In addition to playing piano and keyboards in the group, Rod Argent was (with Chris White) one of the group's two main songwriters, penning the hits "She's Not There", "Tell Her No", and "Time of the Season", amongst others.
Argent was initially the group's lead singer, with Blunstone on guitar. Upon realizing Argent's keyboard talents, he became the group's full time keyboard player, conceding the role of lead singer to Blunstone.
After The Zombies split, he went on to form Argent, who had a hit album in 1972 with All Together Now, which contained the single "Hold Your Head Up". They also recorded the original version of the rock anthem "God Gave Rock and Roll to You", written by lead singer Russ Ballard which was later covered by legendary christian rock band PETRA on the 1977 album Come And Join Us which also featured a reprise of the song on same said album. The band KISS did a 90's cover of the song entitled God Gave Rock And Roll To You II for the movie Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey. The song was played over the movies credit sequence. Later the song was featured on KISS's album Revenge. Argent's first album included the song, "Liar" (also composed by Ballard) which became a hit for Three Dog Night.
Argent later played keyboards with many other musicians, including playing piano on the title track of The Who's album Who Are You, and on Variations with Gary Moore, Julian Lloyd Webber and Andrew Lloyd Webber. In 1986 he composed the ITV theme music for their coverage of the 1986 World Cup - "Aztec Gold". It was released as a single under the title of "Silsoe". Argent also composed the theme music to the ITV (LWT) sitcom The Piglet Files airing from 1990 to 1992. He also played keyboards on and produced Joshua Kadison's 1993 album "Painted Desert Serenade".


Tracks:

1. Teenage Years
2. Salvation Song
3. 4th Gymnopedie, A - Rod Argent
4. Helpless - Rod Argent, Colin Blunstone
5. Sweet Russian - Rod Argent, Chris White
6. In Memory
7. Baby Don't You Cry - Rod Argent
8. First Touch - Rod Argent, Chris White
9. Suite T
10. Spirits

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