{"id":3449,"date":"2013-08-14T04:59:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T04:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/08\/14\/jon-brookes-drummer-with-british-band-the-charlatans-dead-at-44\/"},"modified":"2013-08-14T04:59:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T04:59:07","slug":"jon-brookes-drummer-with-british-band-the-charlatans-dead-at-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/08\/14\/jon-brookes-drummer-with-british-band-the-charlatans-dead-at-44\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Brookes, drummer with British band the Charlatans, dead at 44"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-520a564a\/turbine\/la-et-ms-drummer-with-uk-band-the-charlatans-d-001\/600\" border=\"0\" width=\"155\" height=\"122\" \/><br \/>Jon Brookes, drummer with the British band the Charlatans, died Tuesday morning, according to a statement on the group&#8217;s website, which said Brookes had been receiving treatment for a brain tumor since 2010. He was 44.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jon was a brilliant drummer, an inspiration, a founding member of the Charlatans, part of our family and a friend to everyone in and around the band,&#8221; the statement reads. &#8220;Losing someone who was always so full of life is a tragedy that will be shared by so many.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The group said Brookes, who&#8217;d been working on new material this summer, &#8220;passed away peacefully&#8221; in a hospital &#8220;with his family at his bedside.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are torn apart,&#8221; Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess wrote on Twitter. &#8220;Love &amp; thoughts to Jon&#8217;s family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Part of the so-called Madchester scene that also included the Stone Roses and the Happy Mondays, the Charlatans were known for mixing rock guitars and dance beats in songs such as &#8220;The Only One I Know&#8221; and &#8220;One to Another.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The band&#8217;s most recent studio album, &#8220;Who We Touch,&#8221; came out in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Los Angeles Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Brookes, drummer with the British band the Charlatans, died Tuesday morning, according to a&#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-3449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449","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=3449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}