{"id":3237,"date":"2013-06-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/06\/14\/david-cameron-hunts-for-new-band-after-being-banned-from-listening-to-the-smiths\/"},"modified":"2013-06-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T00:00:00","slug":"david-cameron-hunts-for-new-band-after-being-banned-from-listening-to-the-smiths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/06\/14\/david-cameron-hunts-for-new-band-after-being-banned-from-listening-to-the-smiths\/","title":{"rendered":"David Cameron hunts for new band after being banned from listening to The Smiths"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"firstPar\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/f\/ff\/SmithsPromoPhoto_TQID_1985.jpg\/300px-SmithsPromoPhoto_TQID_1985.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"158\" height=\"100\" \/><br \/>Attending an event to celebrate the UK music industry\u2019s highest ever share of  global sales, the Prime Minister met artists including Katie Melua and Chase And  Status.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He said: \u201cI&#8217;m a huge music fan but obviously it&#8217;s been something of a music  crisis year for me because Morrissey and Johnny Marr have said I&#8217;m not allowed  to listen to The Smiths any more, so I&#8217;ve had to find some other stuff I am  allowed to listen to.&#8221;    <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div class=\"thirdPar\">\n<p>The Prime Minister was asked to stop listening to The Smiths after the band\u2019s  songwriters said they were embarrassed by his mentions of his love for the band.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fourthPar\">\n<p>In 2010 Johnny Marr forbade the Prime Minister from liking his music and  recently said he would rather Mr Cameron didn&#8217;t know any Smiths songs at all  than say he liked them. Morrissey also published a statement in 2010 attacking  the Prime Minister and his support for foxhunting.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fifthPar\">\n<p>The event in London on Wednesday night was held to celebrate the prominent  position of the UK in the music industry \u2013 which has seen the UK claim the  world\u2019s top-selling album for five of the past six years, being beaten once by  US rapper Eminem. <\/p>\n<p>Source: The Guardian<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attending an event to celebrate the UK music industry\u2019s highest ever share of global sales,&#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-3237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237","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=3237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}