ME and my MONEY

WHEN singer-songwriter Colin Blunstone left The Zombies in 1967, he had just £500 to his name and was living in a rented flat with his parents.

The Zombies enjoyed a series of big hits in America in the 1960s, selling more than a million copies of their first record, She’s Not There.

But Blunstone never made much money from the hits and struggled to make ends meet in the 1980s, sleeping in his clothes in a friend’s freezing spare bedroom because he had nowhere else to go.

He had to wait until he was in his 70s to start earning serious money from his music, following a huge resurgence of interest in The Zombies in America.

The Zombies have now re-formed and will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the album Odessey and Oracle live at the London Palladium on September 29. Blunstone, who is now 72, lives with his wife Susi in Surrey.