{"id":4772,"date":"2014-11-12T07:22:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T07:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/11\/12\/ex-survivor-singer-jimi-jamison-died-of-stroke-drugs\/"},"modified":"2014-11-12T07:22:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T07:22:00","slug":"ex-survivor-singer-jimi-jamison-died-of-stroke-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/11\/12\/ex-survivor-singer-jimi-jamison-died-of-stroke-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Survivor Singer Jimi Jamison Died of Stroke, Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimijamison.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/jimi-jamison\/dsc00516_wm.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"217\" height=\"162\" \/><br \/>An autopsy report shows that Jimi Jamison, the lead singer on Survivor hits such as &#8220;Burning Heart&#8221; and &#8220;Is This Love,&#8221; died of a stroke with methamphetamine intoxication. The report released Tuesday (Nov. 11) by the Shelby County medical examiner says the 63-year-old Jamison died Sept. 1 at a home in Memphis.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1415749055065_1597\">The autopsy says Jamison had  cardiovascular disease and narrowing of the arteries. It had been  believed that Jamison died of a heart attack.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1415749055065_1598\">The report says he died of a hemorrhagic brain stroke, with &#8220;acute methamphetamine intoxication contributing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1415749055065_1599\">Jamison joined Survivor in 1984,  after it had already become known for &#8220;Eye of the Tiger,&#8221; the theme  song to the Sylvester Stallone film &#8220;Rocky III.&#8221; Jamison replaced  vocalist Dave Bickler.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1415749055065_1600\">Jamison, who also was a member of Target and Cobra, also co-wrote and sang &#8220;I&#8217;m Always Here,&#8221; the theme to Baywatch.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Billboard<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An autopsy report shows that Jimi Jamison, the lead singer on Survivor hits such as&#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-4772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772","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=4772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}