{"id":13059,"date":"2020-05-08T19:16:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T19:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=13059"},"modified":"2020-05-08T19:16:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T19:16:15","slug":"toyah-willcox-robert-fripp-celebrating-ve-day-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2020\/05\/08\/toyah-willcox-robert-fripp-celebrating-ve-day-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"TOYAH WILLCOX &#038; ROBERT FRIPP &#8211; CELEBRATING VE DAY HEROES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two VE Day Heroes being celebrated within the Fripp and Willcox families:Uncle Bill, aka RAF Flight Sergeant Alfie Fripp\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfie_Fripp\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfie_Fripp<\/a>, who helped in planning The Great Escape.Beric Willcox of the Royal Navy, based in Alexandria, who guarded convoys in the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong>Watch the video:<\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Te0qfJUidHQ\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Te0qfJUidHQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>The guitar used in the video is RF\u2019s Les Paul serial no. 9-1986; used on all KC albums 1969-74; and on the Heroes session in Berlin with David Bowie, Tony Visconti &amp; Brian Eno at the Hansa Studios, July 1977.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Backing track: King Crimson Live In Berlin on September 12th. 2016.<br><br>Personnel: Gavin Harrison, Jeremy Stacey, Pat Mastelotto, Mel Collins, Tony Levin, Jakko Jakszyk\u00a0 &amp; Robert Fripp.Fairy dustings provided by Bill Rieflin.<br><br>Recorded and mixed by Chris Porter.Produced by Chris Porter with Robert Fripp &amp; David Singleton.<br><br>Used by permission.<br><br>Vocal track &amp; video: Toyah Willcox, at home in the kitchen, Middle England;May 5th. 2020 on iPhone.<br><br><strong>For more information:<\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dgmlive.com\/\">www.dgmlive.com<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two VE Day Heroes being celebrated within the Fripp and Willcox families:Uncle Bill, aka&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[125,51,1007,1031],"class_list":["post-13059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-news","tag-prog","tag-progressive-rock","tag-robert-fripp","tag-toyah-willcox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13061,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13059\/revisions\/13061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}