{"id":2141,"date":"2009-04-29T13:59:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T17:59:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-28T13:36:48","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T13:36:48","slug":"one-of-rock-s-coolest-dads-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/one-of-rock-s-coolest-dads-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"One of Rock&#8217;s Coolest Dads Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GM9jV9SzzUo?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><blockquote><p>The previous year, Polydor had rejected the fifth full-length Style Council studio album, the house-influenced <em>Modernism: A New Decade<\/em>, and John fought Paul\u2019s corner, lifting head of Polydor David Munns out of his chair during a particularly fractious meeting and telling him: \u201cYou don\u2019t talk about my son like that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of rock&#8217;s coolest dads, <strong>John Weller<\/strong>, who supported and managed son <strong>Paul<\/strong>&#8216;s career from his earliest rock aspirations as a teenager through The Jam, The Style Council, and his rebirth as a solo artist, has died. I don&#8217;t know a whole lot about the guy, but I&#8217;ve seen interviews with him and read some stuff and I&#8217;ve always thought that if either of my sons wants to be a rock musician, I&#8217;d like to be as willing as John Weller was to be in his son&#8217;s corner and help him achieve his rock dreams. Pere Weller had excellent hair to boot!<\/p>\n<p><em>NEXT: Rock Town Hall&#8217;s Official Eulogy&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip400x602.swf\" width=\"400\" height=\"602\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip400x602.swf\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The previous year, Polydor had rejected the fifth full-length Style Council studio album, the house-influenced Modernism: A New Decade, and John fought Paul\u2019s corner, lifting head of Polydor David Munns out of his chair during a particularly fractious meeting and telling him: \u201cYou don\u2019t talk about my son like that.\u201d One of rock&#8217;s coolest dads, <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/one-of-rock-s-coolest-dads-dies\/' 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":[170,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141"}],"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=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}