{"id":3654,"date":"2013-10-10T12:57:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T12:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/10\/10\/pogues-guitarist-philip-chevron-dies-of-cancer-aged-56\/"},"modified":"2013-10-10T12:57:53","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T12:57:53","slug":"pogues-guitarist-philip-chevron-dies-of-cancer-aged-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/10\/10\/pogues-guitarist-philip-chevron-dies-of-cancer-aged-56\/","title":{"rendered":"Pogues guitarist Philip Chevron dies of cancer, aged 56"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/52\/Philip_chevron.jpg\/220px-Philip_chevron.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"157\" height=\"104\" \/><br \/>Philip Chevron, who played guitar for the Pogues, has died at the age of 56. He had been treated for head and neck cancer in 2007 and was given a clean bill of health in April 2012. A new tumour appeared in August 2012, however, and was deemed inoperable. He died on Tuesday morning.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Chevron joined the Pogues following the release of their debut album, Red Roses for Me, initially on a temporary basis. He was a full-time member by the time they recorded their second album, Rum, Sodomy and the Lash. Although the Pogues&#8217; songwriting was dominated by Shane MacGowan, Chevron contributed one of the band&#8217;s best-loved songs, Thousands Are Sailing.<\/p>\n<p>In 1976, Chevron had founded one of Ireland&#8217;s first punk bands, the Radiators from Space. Their songs were later covered by folk singers including Christy Moore and Mary Coughlan.<\/p>\n<p>In a message on their website, the Pogues sent condolences to Chevron&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Chevron, who played guitar for the Pogues, has died at the age of 56&#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-3654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654","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=3654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}