{"id":2538,"date":"2023-03-09T07:43:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T18:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2023-03-09T07:44:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T18:44:28","slug":"manfreds-man-turns-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2538","title":{"rendered":"Manfred&#8217;s Man turns 75"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Singer and guitarist Chris Thompson celebrates his birthday today. Chris was born in England but raised in New Zealand and is known both for his work with\u00a0Manfred Mann&#8217;s Earth Band, specifically for his lead vocal on the classic hit <em>Blinded By the Light<\/em> and for his solo accomplishments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blinded By the Light was written by Bruce Springsteen for his album <em>Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.<\/em> but it was Manfred Mann&#8217;s Earth Band&#8217;s cover that reached number one on the\u00a0Billboard\u00a0Hot 100\u00a0in the United States in February 1977 and was also a top ten hit in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Canada. <\/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=\"Manfred Mann - Blinded by the Light\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lcWVL4B-4pI?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>Singer and guitarist Chris Thompson celebrates his birthday today. Chris was born in England but raised in New Zealand and is known both for his work with\u00a0Manfred Mann&#8217;s Earth Band, specifically for his lead vocal on the classic hit Blinded By the Light and for his solo accomplishments. Blinded By the Light was written by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538","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=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2540,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions\/2540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}