{"id":3341,"date":"2023-12-27T16:51:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T03:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=3341"},"modified":"2023-12-27T16:51:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T03:51:13","slug":"remembering-stevie-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=3341","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Stevie Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the 27th of December 2015 Stevie Wright died, aged 68, after lengthy battles with drugs and alcohol and years of poor health. From 1964 to 1969 he was the lead singer of Sydney-based band &#8220;The Easybeats,&#8221; who had a  world-wide hit in 1966 with &#8216;Friday on My Mind&#8217;. The Easybeats were widely regarded as the greatest Australian pop band of the 1960s. <\/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=\"The Easybeats - Friday On My Mind (French TV, 1967) 1080p HD\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dnqxbdnzlhw?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\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 27th of December 2015 Stevie Wright died, aged 68, after lengthy battles with drugs and alcohol and years of poor health. From 1964 to 1969 he was the lead singer of Sydney-based band &#8220;The Easybeats,&#8221; who had a world-wide hit in 1966 with &#8216;Friday on My Mind&#8217;. The Easybeats were widely regarded as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[370],"class_list":["post-3341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-the-easybeats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341","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=3341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3342,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions\/3342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}