{"id":3438,"date":"2024-02-08T10:23:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T21:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=3438"},"modified":"2024-02-08T10:24:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T21:24:51","slug":"the-tragic-loss-of-del-shannon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=3438","title":{"rendered":"The Tragic Loss of Del Shannon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the 8th of February 1990 American singer and songwriter Del Shannon died of self inflicted gunshot wounds. On the advice of his doctor, Shannon had begun taking the antidepressant&nbsp;Prozac on January 24. According to his widow, while testifying to the Food and Drug Administration in 1991 :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>He was very much in charge of his business, but within days after he started taking Prozac I noticed a personality change in him. He developed severe insomnia, extreme fatigue, chills, racing heart, dry mouth, and upset stomach.&#8221; &#8220;Suicide was totally out of character for my husband. There was no note and no goodbye.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Del Shannon scored the 1961 UK and US number 1 single &#8220;Runaway,&#8221; and many other Top 40 singles, including &#8220;The Wanderer.&#8221; In 1963 he became the first American to record a cover version of a song by the Beatles. His version of &#8220;From Me to You&#8221; charted in the US before\u00a0The Beatles version did. Prior to his suicide he had been working with\u00a0Tom Petty\u00a0and Jeff Lynne and was rumoured to be replacing\u00a0Roy Orbison\u00a0in the\u00a0Traveling Wilburys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1999 Del Shannon was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dion - The Wanderer (1961) 4K\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rXqWCeB8Vto?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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 8th of February 1990 American singer and songwriter Del Shannon died of self inflicted gunshot wounds. On the advice of his doctor, Shannon had begun taking the antidepressant&nbsp;Prozac on January 24. According to his widow, while testifying to the Food and Drug Administration in 1991 : He was very much in charge of [&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":[386],"class_list":["post-3438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-del-shannon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438","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=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3440,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions\/3440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}