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Failure: The Blog 
April 2018
- Cruise Control Came Out of Frustration
- Time Spent Gaming Pays Off In The Navy
- Rock Around The Clock Was a Commercial Failure
- Sigmund Freud Should Have Been Discouraged
March 2018
- Superman Couldn't Fly
- This School Shares Failures
- Jim Croce's Parents Hoped He Would Fail
- McDonald's Turns A Cheater Into A Winner
- Snake Eyes Was Made To Save Money
February 2018
- A Stolen Album Created Success
- The 1679 Habeas Corpus Act Passed Due To A Joke
- Changing The Print On A Box Saved Money
- George Washington Survived His Miserable Mother
- How Warehouse Stores Began
January 2018
- Reddit User Found Success Through Failure
- Remembering Famous Failures
- Mistake Or Genius Marketing?
- Waste From Our Eyes Lets Us See
- The Slinky Was Accidentally Created
December 2017
- Proceeding After A Failure
- An Elementary School Embraces Failure
- When Businesses Apologize
- How The Olympics Nearly Destroyed Montreal
- Benji Was A Shelter Dog!
November 2017
A Con Lead To Successful Music Careers
When the Zombies disbanded after their album, Odessey and Oracle, failed to make the music charts, they never expected to see fame or fortune. That is, until they mysteriously became wildly famous in the States.
So how can a band that was no longer making music become famous? You can point the finger at Delta Promotions, their management. Back in 1969, they had two separate impostor bands playing and calling themselves the Zombies. Mark Ramsey, a member of one of the impostor Zombie groups, spoke about the incident.
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“As far as the Zombies, I was told they didn’t exist,” he recalls. “That they were only a studio sound. I was just excited and flattered. I’d only been playing for a few years and the other guys were pro-level at that point. I didn’t look at it as anything more than a chance to have some fun, hang out with some cool guys, learn some songs, go somewhere outside of this Hillbillyville, and earn a little money.”
Chris White, a member of the original Zombies band from Britain, has no hard feelings or bitterness toward the groups. In fact, one of those impostor Zombie bands spawned what we now know as ZZ Top! What should have been a failure resulted in success!
