{"id":3560,"date":"2013-09-16T08:43:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T08:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/09\/16\/roxy-music-and-the-smiths-form-supergroup\/"},"modified":"2013-09-16T08:43:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T08:43:53","slug":"roxy-music-and-the-smiths-form-supergroup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/09\/16\/roxy-music-and-the-smiths-form-supergroup\/","title":{"rendered":"Roxy Music And The Smiths Form &#8216;Supergroup&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/c2\/PhilManzaneraFeb2011.jpg\/220px-PhilManzaneraFeb2011.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"132\" height=\"155\" \/><br \/>A group of veteran rock stars from Roxy Music, The Smiths, Suede and Supergrass have teamed up to form a new supergroup for a TV drama series.  <!--more-->  <br \/>Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera, The Smiths drummer Mike Joyce, Suede bassist Mat Osman and Supergrass frontman Gaz Coombes have come together to make up Chaz Chance And The Prophets.<br \/>The fictional rock band was put together to feature in a new UK TV series called The Records, which tells the story of the ups and downs of a music industry talent agent.<br \/>In 2006 Manzanera co-produced David Gilmour&#8217;s album On An Island and played in his band for tours in Europe and North America.<br \/>He also wrote and presented a series of 14 one-hour radio programmes for the station Planet Rock entitled The A-Z of Great Guitarists.<br \/>Osman was a school friend of Suede&#8217;s lead singer Brett Anderson and was in early garage bands with Anderson such as The Pigs and Suave And Elegant.<br \/>He co-wrote some of the band&#8217;s songs, including Lost in TV and Golden Gun.<br \/>While The Smiths provided Joyce with his first taste of success, he had previously drummed for Manchester band The Hoax and Irish punks Victim.<br \/>Chaz Chance And The Prophets have reportedly recorded three songs for the show.<br \/>Joyce told NME magazine: &#8220;The calibre of the players &#8211; heroes, y&#8217;know (sic) &#8211; it&#8217;d be mad not to do it. And the tracks are genuinely good. They sound Bowie-ish, but they&#8217;re not a pastiche.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: SKY News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of veteran rock stars from Roxy Music, The Smiths, Suede and Supergrass have&#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-3560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560","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=3560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}