{"id":455,"date":"2011-01-06T15:15:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T15:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/01\/06\/japans-karn-loses-battle-with-cancer\/"},"modified":"2011-01-06T15:15:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T15:15:05","slug":"japans-karn-loses-battle-with-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2011\/01\/06\/japans-karn-loses-battle-with-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Karn loses battle with cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musicweek.com\/Pictures\/web\/r\/r\/b\/5161166_5d52c034c9.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"154\" height=\"116\" \/><br \/>Karn died yesterday at his Chelsea house and is survived by his wife Kyoko and his son Metis.<\/p>\n<p>Born Andonis Michaelides into a Greek Cypriot family in 1958, Karn was a founder member of the mid seventies band Japan along with David Sylvian, Steve Jansen and Richard Barbieri.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jansen pays tribute to his close friend and says, \u201cMick remained a creative energy to his final days, and his strength and dignity was to be truly admired. He will be greatly missed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although, the band\u2019s first few albums on Ariola Hansa were largely ignored they found the charts after a switch to Virgin with the 1980 release Gentleman Take Polaroids and the 1981 follow up Tin Drum.<\/p>\n<p>After the band split in 1982 Mick went on to record several solo albums as well as forming Dali\u2019s Car with former Bauhaus frontman Pete Murphy.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Music Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karn died yesterday at his Chelsea house and is survived by his wife Kyoko and&#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-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","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=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}