{"id":4885,"date":"2015-01-05T11:57:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T11:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/01\/05\/mercury-records-co-founder-steinberg-dies-at-94\/"},"modified":"2015-01-05T11:57:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T11:57:09","slug":"mercury-records-co-founder-steinberg-dies-at-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2015\/01\/05\/mercury-records-co-founder-steinberg-dies-at-94\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Records Co-Founder Steinberg Dies at 94"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story-continues-3\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mercuryrecords.com.au\/wp-content\/themes\/mercuryRecords-splash\/images\/mercuryLogo.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"270\" height=\"120\" \/><br \/>A co-founder of Mercury Records and an innovator in the digital music industry has died. Irwin Steinberg was 94. Publicist Scott Gorenstein says Steinberg died Dec. 29 at his home in Brattleboro, Vermont. A  Chicago native, Steinberg graduated from the University of Chicago and  served in the Air Corps before beginning his career in the music  business.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">After  starting up Mercury Records and serving at its helm for several years,  he became chairman and CEO of Polygram Records, where he remained for  more than 30 years.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-4\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\">He  later taught courses on the music business at Columbia College of the  Arts in Chicago and was a consultant to numerous digital music  enterprises, including MusicMaker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">He is survived by his wife, Dominique Moyse, three children, four grandchildren and two sisters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Source: New York Times<br \/>Image Source: Mercury Records<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A co-founder of Mercury Records and an innovator in the digital music industry has died&#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-4885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4885","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=4885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}