{"id":1886,"date":"2012-07-18T09:30:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T09:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/07\/18\/deep-purple-keyboard-player-jon-lord-dies-aged-71\/"},"modified":"2012-07-18T09:30:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T09:30:46","slug":"deep-purple-keyboard-player-jon-lord-dies-aged-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/07\/18\/deep-purple-keyboard-player-jon-lord-dies-aged-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Purple keyboard player Jon Lord dies aged 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jonlord.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/jon-lord-bw.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"104\" height=\"157\" \/><br \/>Jon Lord, keyboard player and co-founder of Deep Purple, passed away on July 16 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 71. Lord co-wrote many of the group\u2019s legendary songs including Smoke On The Water and played with many bands and musicians throughout his career. Lord is also well-known for his Orchestral work Concerto for Group &amp; Orchestra that was first performed at the Royal Albert Hall with Deep Purple and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 1969 and 1999.  <!--more-->  <br \/>Deep Purple sold 150 million albums. Lord retired from the band in 2002 and his solo work after this period was universally acclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>Tributes have poured in from the music industry. Tom Morello, former of Rage Against the Machine wrote on Twitter: &#8220;RIP the great Jon Lord, Deep Purple&#8217;s cornerstone\/keyboardist. So many great great songs and that incredible SOUND of his! Thankyou.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rick Wakeman of Yes said: &#8220;We were going to write and record an album before he became ill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His contribution to music and to classic rock was immeasurable and I will miss him terribly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Music Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Lord, keyboard player and co-founder of Deep Purple, passed away on July 16 after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886","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=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}