{"id":485167,"date":"2022-01-26T09:03:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T09:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=232205"},"modified":"2022-01-26T09:03:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T09:03:56","slug":"an-appreciation-of-a-modern-day-troubadour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/01\/26\/an-appreciation-of-a-modern-day-troubadour\/","title":{"rendered":"An Appreciation of a Modern-Day Troubadour\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voice? Check. Lyrics? Check. Looks? Ahhhhh. Well, as Marvin Lee Aday, who died on Jan 20 at 74, like to say\u2026.Two Out Of Three Ain\u2019t Bad. The stage name? Meat Loaf. For Crying Out Loud. OK. How\u2019s this for a pitch in 1977 to record companies for the breakthrough hit, Bat Out Of Hell? It\u2019s  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/01\/26\/an-appreciation-of-a-modern-day-troubadour\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/01\/26\/an-appreciation-of-a-modern-day-troubadour\/\">An Appreciation of a Modern-Day Troubadour\u00a0<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/01\/26\/an-appreciation-of-a-modern-day-troubadour\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voice? Check. Lyrics? Check. Looks? Ahhhhh. Well, as Marvin Lee Aday, who died on Jan 20 at 74, like to say\u2026.Two Out Of Three Ain\u2019t Bad. The stage name? Meat Loaf. For Crying Out Loud. OK. How\u2019s this for a pitch in 1977 to record companies for the brea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486201,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485167\/revisions\/486201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}