{"id":5911,"date":"2016-03-12T16:53:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T16:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/03\/12\/keith-emerson-s-death-might-be-a-suspected-suicide\/"},"modified":"2016-03-12T16:53:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T16:53:56","slug":"keith-emerson-s-death-might-be-a-suspected-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2016\/03\/12\/keith-emerson-s-death-might-be-a-suspected-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Emerson &#8216;s death might be a suspected suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/03\/Keith_Emerson_StPetersburg_Aug08.jpg\/220px-Keith_Emerson_StPetersburg_Aug08.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"215\" height=\"275\" \/><br \/>Keith Emerson, the co-founder of British prog-rock band Emerson, Lake &amp; Palmer, has died aged 71. Long-term bandmate Carl Palmer confirmed the news saying Emerson had died at his home in Santa Monica, California. Police told BBC News the death was being investigated as a suicide.  The broadcaster said officers had confirmed earlier US media reports  that Emerson had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>A statement on the band\u2019s Facebook page read:\u00a0\u201cWe regret to announce  that Keith Emerson died last night at his home in Santa Monica, Los  Angeles, aged 71. We ask that the family\u2019s privacy and grief be  respected.\u201d The keyboard player\u2019s body was discovered at his home on Thursday by, it  was reported, his girlfriend. He had been scheduled to travel to Japan  on tour next week. Acoordi ng to additional information by TMZ, The Emerson, Lake &amp; Palmer\u00a0co-founder had  recently been suffering from a serious medical problem &#8212; a degenerative  nerve issue in his right hand &#8230; according to our sources. We&#8217;re told  he could only play the keyboard with 8 fingers at this point and knew it  was only going to get worse.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, he was struggling with depression.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sources: Independent \/ TMZ<br \/>Image credit: Creative Common<\/p>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Emerson, the co-founder of British prog-rock band Emerson, Lake &amp; Palmer, has died aged&#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-5911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911","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=5911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}