Fact #111697

Chris White (bassist, songwriter, The Zombies) : We did love the Philippines, because we were playing to the biggest audiences we'd ever played to. Leroy Prinz was there from California because he had a tax problem and his accountant told him to get out. The girls used to write the weirdest letters, and there were two kinds of girls there - the ones who knew nothing about sex, and girls who knew everything about sex. Absolutely fascinating country. The Filipino bands are known as the musicians of the east, and you'd go into places and hear beat bands playing our songs perfectly, everything copied. That was a weird feeling. And going to all these ambassadors residences and being entertained and feted like we were the Beatles. We did benefit from The Beatles being cut out of the psyche of the whole nation, because of what they 'did' to the Marcos'.
(Source : http://aln3.albumlinernotes.com/Zombies_Chronology_66-68.html)

Hugh Grundy (drummer, The Zombies) : It got a bit hairy towards the end. We got offered another gig and they said, 'You can't because you're exclusive to us,' and we did it anyway. We learned later that the place we'd just played had burnt down the following night. Strange, that.
(Source : interview with Doria Lynskey, The Guardian, February 2008)