{"id":538,"date":"2017-01-31T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgeglennon.com\/?p=538"},"modified":"2022-01-31T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T06:30:00","slug":"john-wetton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgeglennon.com\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"John Wetton"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It was with great sadness that I received a phone call from London this morning informing me that John Wetton had passed away after a terrible battle with cancer.<\/p>\n

Mike Stone, the producer of Asia, was not only a mentor of mine but the single biggest influence of my music production life. If it wasn’t for Mike and Asia, I simply would not have started making records.  Their direct influence drove me to the Town House (Where Mike recorded Asia’s debut)<\/p>\n

John Wetton was a virtuoso musician with a sense and understanding of melody and harmony that can’t be taught anywhere.  He was a wordsmith with few equals. This with Geoff Downes and Mike, created the sound of the biggest selling album in the US for 1982.  An album that changed my life.<\/p>\n

John’s legendary baritone was one of the greatest voices in the history of rock music.<\/p>\n

It’s been an incredibly bad 12 months from the music Gods.<\/p>\n

My thought’s go out to John’s family and particularly to Geoff Downes.<\/p>\n

January 31. 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was with great sadness that I received a phone call from London this morning informing me that John Wetton had passed away after a terrible battle with cancer. Mike Stone, the producer of Asia, was not only a mentor … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[38,36,17,40,35,37,39],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-london","tag-asia","tag-geoffery-downes","tag-george-glennon","tag-jdk","tag-john-wetton","tag-mike-stone","tag-the-town-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgeglennon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgeglennon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgeglennon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgeglennon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgeglennon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/georgeglennon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/georgeglennon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgeglennon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgeglennon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgeglennon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}