{"id":3826,"date":"2013-11-29T15:05:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T15:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/11\/29\/hmv-pulls-lostprophets-music-following-singers-sex-abuse-case\/"},"modified":"2013-11-29T15:05:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T15:05:21","slug":"hmv-pulls-lostprophets-music-following-singers-sex-abuse-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/11\/29\/hmv-pulls-lostprophets-music-following-singers-sex-abuse-case\/","title":{"rendered":"HMV Pulls Lostprophets&#8217; Music Following Singer\u2019s Sex Abuse Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/2851661651\/f33664427f145f13b81e925f2551ed48.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" \/><br \/>British entertainment retailer HMV has yanked Lostprophets\u2019 music from its stores and Website after the alternative rock act\u2019s frontman pleaded guilty this week to a series of appalling sexual offenses. A spokesman for HMV told NME that the 140-store chain won\u2019t sell any of the now-defunct Welsh band&#8217;s music from its 140 stores and online, and that staff have been told to take-down any remaining stock from its shelves.  <!--more-->  <br \/>The group&#8217;s former frontman Ian Watkins, 36, was arrested last December and charged with more than 20 offenses, including raping a baby, conspiring to sexually assault a child and making indecent images.<\/p>\n<p>He had denied the charges but changed his plea Tuesday at Cardiff Crown Court and admitted 11 offenses, including sexually touching a 1-year-old, encouraging a groupie to abuse her child and making child pornography. He maintained that he was not guilty of the rape charge.<\/p>\n<p>Lostprophets was formed in 1997 and had a chart-topping British album in 2006 with &#8220;Liberation Transmission.&#8221; They scored a No. 1 hit on Billboard&#8217;s Alternative Songs chart in 2004 with &#8220;Last Train Home.&#8221; The band split in October.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Billboard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British entertainment retailer HMV has yanked Lostprophets\u2019 music from its stores and Website after the&#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-3826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826","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=3826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}