{"id":2460,"date":"2014-06-28T11:23:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T11:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2014-06-28T12:09:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T12:09:54","slug":"bobby-womack-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/bobby-womack-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Womack RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Kt-vPFCsmFg?hl=en_GB&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Kt-vPFCsmFg?hl=en_GB&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I just heard that Bobby Womack died yesterday. So sorry to hear this and so glad that I finally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/2014\/01\/bobby-womack-at-liverpool-philharmonic\/\">got to see him perform<\/a>, at Liverpool Philharmonic earlier this year. A wonderful show that had me in tears by the end. On Tuesday night, my oldest friend Mike and I had a late night session after the Elton John gig. At about 2AM, I played &#8216;I Can Understand It&#8217; and remarked that Liverpool was still my gig of the year. &#8216;Even better than Prince?&#8221; Mike asked, before choosing &#8216;I&#8217;m Through Trying To Prove My Love To You&#8217;. Yes, better than Prince. This was the show closer, as filmed a year earlier at the Forum in London, with Damon Albarn (who produced his terrific final album) watching in the wings. He went out on a high, in every sense. RIP, Bobby.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/3-13-Im-Through-Trying-To-Prove-My-Love-To-You.mp3\">Bobby Womack &#8211; I&#8217;m Through Trying To Prove My Love To You<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just heard that Bobby Womack died yesterday. So sorry to hear this and so glad that I finally got to see him perform, at Liverpool Philharmonic earlier this year. A wonderful show that had me in tears by the end. On Tuesday night, my oldest friend Mike and I had a late night session after the Elton John gig. At about 2AM, I played &#8216;I Can Understand It&#8217; and remarked that Liverpool was still my gig of the year. &#8216;Even better than Prince?&#8221; Mike asked, before choosing &#8216;I&#8217;m Through Trying To Prove My Love To You&#8217;. Yes, better than Prince. This was the show closer, as filmed a year earlier at the Forum in London, with Damon Albarn (who produced his terrific final album)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2468,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions\/2468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}