{"id":5227,"date":"2015-05-15T06:38:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T06:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/05\/15\/the-legendary-bluesman-bb-king-dies\/"},"modified":"2015-05-15T06:38:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T06:38:44","slug":"the-legendary-bluesman-bb-king-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2015\/05\/15\/the-legendary-bluesman-bb-king-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legendary Bluesman B.B. King Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/97\/B.B._King_in_2009.jpg\/300px-B.B._King_in_2009.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"219\" height=\"146\" \/><\/p>\n<p>B.B. King,  the last of the Southern-born blues musicians who defined modern  electric blues in the 1950s and would influence scores of rock and blues  guitarists, has died. He was 89. The Mississippi-born guitarist, who had suffered from Type II  diabetes for two decades, died peacefully in his sleep at 9:40 p.m. PDT  Thursday at his home in Las Vegas, his attorney Brent Bryson tells the  AP.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>In October, King fell ill during a show and after being diagnosed  with dehydration and exhaustion, canceled his concert tour and had not  returned to touring at the time of his death.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With his trusty Gibson guitar Lucille, King developed his audiences  in stages, connecting with African-Americans region by region in the  1950s and &#8217;60s, breaking through to the American mainstream in the &#8217;70s  and becoming a global ambassador for the blues soon thereafter, becoming  the first blues musician to play the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Billboard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.B. King, the last of the Southern-born blues musicians who defined modern electric blues in&#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-5227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227","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=5227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}