{"id":4107,"date":"2016-01-11T09:58:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T09:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melodiansuk.co.uk\/?p=4107"},"modified":"2016-01-11T09:58:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T09:58:42","slug":"the-melodians-pays-tribute-to-david-bowie-who-died-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melodiansuk.co.uk\/?p=4107","title":{"rendered":"The Melodians pays tribute to David Bowie who died yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Melodians were all saddened to hear of the death of David Bowie after an 18 month battle with cancer.\u00a0 He was a great talent and will be sorely missed.<\/p>\n<p>The Melodians recorded a video playing one of his most famous songs &#8216;The Man Who Sold The World&#8217; at the British Council in 2013.\u00a0 They also recorded the music at Abbey Road Studios in March 2013 as part of the soundtrack for the &#8216;English Magic&#8217; video created by Jeremy Deller.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to listen to the unusual sound of a Steel Orchestra playing David Bowie then here is the link:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_81284\"  width=\"760\" height=\"428\"  data-origwidth=\"760\" data-origheight=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L9KWHgSelnc?enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/www.melodiansuk.co.uk&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Melodians were all saddened to hear of the death of David Bowie after an 18 month battle with cancer.\u00a0 He was a great talent and will be sorely missed. The Melodians recorded a video playing one of his most famous songs &#8216;The Man Who Sold The World&#8217; at the British Council in 2013.\u00a0 They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[53,52,19,18,20,17,16,54],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Xd1v-14f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melodiansuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melodiansuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melodiansuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melodiansuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melodiansuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.melodiansuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4108,"href":"https:\/\/www.melodiansuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107\/revisions\/4108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melodiansuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melodiansuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melodiansuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}