{"id":1270,"date":"2008-03-05T15:43:56","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T20:43:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-28T13:42:58","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T13:42:58","slug":"norman-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/norman-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Norman &#8220;Hurricane&#8221; Smith Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve yet to see a news link, but we were tipped off to news of the death of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norman_Smith\" title=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norman_Smith\">Norman &#8220;Hurricane&#8221; Smith<\/a><\/strong> by an <strong>RTH Basement Dweller<\/strong>. I&#8217;ve found the Beatles&#8217; fanboy discussion topic linked in the title of this thread to back it up. <\/p>\n<p>Following his fantastic work with <strong>The Beatles<\/strong>, early <strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong>, and psychedelically psavvy <strong>The Pretty Things<\/strong>, he experienced some solo performer success as Hurricane Smith. <strong>&#8220;Oh Babe What Would You Say?&#8221;<\/strong> was one of my early childhood singles.<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DaUZmMyflrA?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>Dig that Look!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><ins>NEW<\/ins>:<\/strong> Here&#8217;s a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mojo4music.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/norman_smith_22_february_1923_1.html\" title=\"http:\/\/www.mojo4music.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/norman_smith_22_february_1923_1.html\" target=\"_blank\">cool Mojo piece<\/a><\/strong> on the man.<\/p>\n<p><small><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?cat=16\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?cat=16\">Previously, in the News!<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve yet to see a news link, but we were tipped off to news of the death of Norman &#8220;Hurricane&#8221; Smith by an RTH Basement Dweller. I&#8217;ve found the Beatles&#8217; fanboy discussion topic linked in the title of this thread to back it up. Following his fantastic work with The Beatles, early Pink Floyd, and <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/norman-smith\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}