{"id":1845,"date":"2022-08-16T19:49:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T07:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2022-08-16T19:50:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T07:50:35","slug":"the-night-chicago-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=1845","title":{"rendered":"The Night Chicago Died"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>The Night Chicago Died<\/em> by &#8220;Paper Lace was their follow-up to <em>Billy Don&#8217;t Be a Hero<\/em> and hit number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 this week in 1974. It also topped the charts in Australia and New Zealand. The song tells a story about the notorious gangster Al Capone and his men having a shootout out with the police. There has been plenty of debate as to whether or not the story is true. However the song&#8217;s co-writer, Mitch Murray, has stated that the song was a work of fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Paper Lace  The night Chicago Died.New Video Edit\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w2OFubG0dPo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Night Chicago Died by &#8220;Paper Lace was their follow-up to Billy Don&#8217;t Be a Hero and hit number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 this week in 1974. It also topped the charts in Australia and New Zealand. The song tells a story about the notorious gangster Al Capone and his men having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[101],"class_list":["post-1845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-paper-lace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1846,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions\/1846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}