{"id":4983,"date":"2015-02-17T05:48:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T05:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/02\/17\/steve-strange-visage-dies\/"},"modified":"2015-02-17T05:48:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T05:48:09","slug":"steve-strange-visage-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2015\/02\/17\/steve-strange-visage-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Strange (Visage) dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/a\/aa\/Anvil_cover.jpg\/220px-Anvil_cover.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Steve Strange has died in a hospital in Egypt  aged 55 following a heart attack. He was believed to be on holiday in  Sharm-el-Sheikh at the time. Strange was front man of \u201880s pop group Visage and was considered a  new romantics pioneer. Visage\u2019s single Fade to Grey reached No.8 in the  UK charts in 1980 and topped the charts elsewhere in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Strange was also the manager of the renowned Blitz Club in Soho where Duran Duran and Culture Club\u2019s careers started off.<\/p>\n<p>Label manager at August Day Recordings, Marc Green, said: \u201cWe are  extremely saddened to announce that Steve Strange died at 11.15 local  time on Thursday 12 February in Sharm el-Sheikh International Hospital,  Egypt. Steve died in his sleep of heart failure. Steve\u2019s family, band  members and friends are all distraught at this sudden news of his  untimely death. Steve\u2019s family request privacy at this extremely  difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/8b\/Steve_Strange%2C_lead_singer_of_English_New_Wave_group_%22Visage%22.jpg\/220px-Steve_Strange%2C_lead_singer_of_English_New_Wave_group_%22Visage%22.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"178\" height=\"132\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Music Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Strange has died in a hospital in Egypt aged 55 following a heart attack&#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-4983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983","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=4983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}