{"id":20929,"date":"2023-08-08T18:21:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T18:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=20929"},"modified":"2023-08-08T18:21:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T18:21:29","slug":"celebrating-the-life-of-john-lawton-former-uriah-heep-lucifers-friend-vocalist-double-cd-to-be-released-august-4-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2023\/08\/08\/celebrating-the-life-of-john-lawton-former-uriah-heep-lucifers-friend-vocalist-double-cd-to-be-released-august-4-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating The Life Of John Lawton, Former Uriah Heep &amp; Lucifer\u2019s Friend Vocalist, Double CD To Be Released August 4, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While with Uriah Heep John featured on the Albums<em>\u00a0Firefly<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Innocent Victim<\/em>\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<em>Fallen Angel<\/em>. But with Lucifer\u2019s Friend he recorded more than 14 Albums between 1969 &amp; 2019. John passed away suddenly on the 29th June 2021.<br><br>During his many decades on the stage John has sung variations of Blues, Rock, Prog. and Classic. From sentimental Ballads to heavy Rock, his extraordinary vocal diversity made him outstanding, his distinctive voice always recognizable!<br><br>This 2 CD Anthology features a variety of 33 songs with different music styles, reflecting John\u2019s diversity and musical career, following his journey through the times! Starting with the 70s up to 2015, highlighting his remarkable vocals, but also to emphasize the astonishing talents of his fellow musicians involved in this tribute!<br><br>This lavish digipack which has been compiled by John\u2019s wife Iris, includes some rarities only recently discovered, also a previously unreleased live duet between John and Bernie Shaw and some trivial out\u2013takes to add a lighthearted element\u2026.<br>All artist\u2019s royalties will be donated to \u201cThe British Heart Foundation\u201d for the research into \u201cAbdominal Aortic Aneurysm\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Celebrating The Life of John Lawton\u00a0<\/em>is OUT NOW via the links below:<\/strong>Amazon CD:\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/CelebratingJLcd\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/geni.us\/CelebratingJLcd<\/a><br>Apple Music:\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/CelebratingJLam\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/geni.us\/CelebratingJLam<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Cherry Red Records:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cherryred.co.uk\/product\/john-lawton-celebrating-the-life-of-john-lawton-2cd\/\">https:\/\/www.cherryred.co.uk\/product\/john-lawton-celebrating-the-life-of-john-lawton-2cd\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While with Uriah Heep John featured on the Albums\u00a0Firefly,\u00a0Innocent Victim\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Fallen Angel. But with Lucifer\u2019s Friend&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[3189,477,470],"class_list":["post-20929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-news","tag-john-lawton","tag-lucifers-friend","tag-uriah-heep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20929","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=20929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20931,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20929\/revisions\/20931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}