The Zombies will give North American fans one last opportunity to hear the group’s 1968 masterpiece “Odessey & Oracle Live” and in its entirety during a 26-date spring tour.

    Following the Zombies’ October 2015 trek celebrating “Odessey & Oracle,” the group’s surviving members — singer Colin Blunstone, keyboardist Rod Argent, bassist Chris White and drummer Hugh Grundy — will kick off their next stretch of dates on March 17 in Glenside, Pennsylvania. The tour wraps up on April 29 in Los Angeles at a to-be-announced venue.

    As the Zombies wrote on Facebook, 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the band recording “Odessey & Oracle;” the album wasn’t released until April 1968, four months after the band had broken up. As a result, the band’s original members never performed the album’s tracks live together until their 2015 reunion tour.

    Tickets for the final North American “Odessey & Oracle” shows go on sale on October 21.

    In addition to the tour, the Zombies will release an album-sized coffee table book in March 2017 about the making of “Odessey & Oracle,” featuring handwritten lyrics and artwork from artist Terry Quirk, who painted the album cover (and infamously* misspelled the album title).

    (SD-Agencies)