For more than 60 years, listeners have wondered who broke the narrator’s heart in the Zombies’ “She’s Not There,” the moody 1964 single that climbed to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 that December. The man who wrote it, keyboardist Rod Argent, has given a short answer. “She wasn’t anybody, just a fictional character,” he told Forbes in 2020. “It was just me weaving a story, basically.” The story did need a starting point, though, and Argent foun…
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