{"id":29925,"date":"2024-07-15T21:02:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T21:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-zombies-rod-argent-thanks-fans-for-support-following-news-of-his-stroke-retirement\/"},"modified":"2024-07-15T21:02:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T21:02:26","slug":"the-zombies-rod-argent-thanks-fans-for-support-following-news-of-his-stroke-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-zombies-rod-argent-thanks-fans-for-support-following-news-of-his-stroke-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"The Zombies\u2019 Rod Argent thanks fans for support following news of his stroke, retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-15\/Getty_RodArgent_071424.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Lorne Thomson\/Redferns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The Zombies<\/strong>\u2019 <strong>Rod Argent<\/strong> is\u00a0expressing his gratitude to\u00a0fans for all the support he\u2019s received since\u00a0his announcement Thursday that he&#8217;s currently recovering from a stroke and, because of his health, has decided to retire from touring.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI am absolutely overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and support that has happened in response to the news of my having suffered a stroke three weeks ago,\u201d he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C9c4WyAMYS1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>shared on Instagram<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">. \u201cI have read every post, and have to thank you so much.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">He adds, \u201cI do feel so lucky that physically l&#8217;ve escaped the worst possible effects, and while I&#8217;m still frustrated by not finding all my words easily, I feel really hopeful that eventually I will make a full recovery.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">With his decision to retire, The Zombies have now canceled all shows planned for 2024, although their second annual Begin Here Festival in St Albans, England, set for November, will still happen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Argent notes, \u201cIt is with a heavy heart that I can&#8217;t carry on with the live playing that I love so much,\u201d adding that he does plan to \u201ccarry on in the studio with writing and recording\u201d with his Zombie bandmates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Zombies played their last U.S. shows in March and April. Their 2023 North American tour was cut short after Argent became ill with migraines, fatigue and exhaustion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorne Thomson\/Redferns The Zombies\u2019 Rod Argent is\u00a0expressing his gratitude to\u00a0fans for all the support he\u2019s received since\u00a0his announcement Thursday that he&#8217;s currently recovering from a stroke and, because of his health, has decided to retire from touring.\u00a0 \u201cI am absolutely overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and support that has<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-zombies-rod-argent-thanks-fans-for-support-following-news-of-his-stroke-retirement\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}