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1. There's a Beatle reference in the line "But tomorrow never knows," referring to the last track on the Revolver album.
2. There's a Shakespeare reference in the lines "Take a rose / Call it sorrow / But it's a rose by any other name." It's adapted from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: "What's in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other word would smell as sweet" (II.ii.43-44).
I'd actually noticed that Shakespeare reference before but didn't think about it enough to post anything about it here. I didn't connect it to the other Shakespeare references in the Zombies' catalogue either.
The liner notes credit "On the Air Tonight" to Peter Bardens, who was with Blunstone in Keats. So as with "Weak for You," it's interesting that even though it's not a song written by Blunstone, White, or Argent, it still fits nicely within their catalogue since it too exhibits familiarity with Beatle music and Shakespeare plays.
