{"id":159,"date":"2007-12-12T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/?p=159"},"modified":"2010-03-22T15:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:53:00","slug":"ike-turner-dead-at-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/2007\/12\/12\/ike-turner-dead-at-76\/","title":{"rendered":"Ike Turner &#8211; Dead at 76"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"color:#3333ff;\">IKE TURNER<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"color:#3333ff;\">1931 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 2007<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><strong><br \/><span style=\"color:#cc33cc;\">Ike Turner, one of the founding fathers of rock n\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 roll died today in San Diego. The cause of death has not yet been released. It was his Kings Of Rhythm group that backed up vocalist Jackie Brenston on the groundbreaking 1951 classic, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Rocket 88\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Rhythm and Blue and Rock n\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Roll music grew out of licks and style laid down by Ike long before he hired Anna Mae Bullock (Tina Turner) to head his revue. Ike has long been vilified in the movies and in print, but tonight we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get down to Ike Turner the musician and the innovator. The Night Prowl Show will honor Ike Turner throughout the night. May he rest in peace.<\/span><\/strong> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IKE TURNER 1931 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 2007 Ike Turner, one of the founding fathers of rock n\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 roll died today in San Diego. The cause of death has not yet been released. It was his Kings Of Rhythm group that backed up vocalist Jackie Brenston on the groundbreaking 1951 classic, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Rocket 88\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Rhythm and Blue and Rock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-r-i-p"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}