{"id":2313,"date":"2009-09-02T12:50:50","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T16:50:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-02T18:19:15","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T18:19:15","slug":"exclusive-bernard-pretty-purdie-announce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/exclusive-bernard-pretty-purdie-announce\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Bernard &#8220;Pretty&#8221; Purdie Announces He Is Ready to Officially Join The Rolling Stones!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JQ1ZQkAoje8?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nFollowing the <a href=\"http:\/\/undercover.com.au\/News-Story.aspx?id=9154_EXCLUSIVE:_Charlie_Watts_Quits\" target=\"_blank\">announcement coming out of Australia that <strong>Charlie Watts<\/strong> has quit The Rolling Stones<\/a> and the counter-statement from the band, as reported in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/the-rolling-stones\/47101\" target=\"_blank\"><em>NME<\/em>, that Charlie Watts has <em>not<\/em> indeed quit The Rolling Stones<\/a>, legendary studio drummer <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2009\/02\/06\/shocking-revelation-beatles-used-backing\">Bernard &#8220;Pretty&#8221; Purdie<\/a><\/strong> issued his own announcement:<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/pretty.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">Why don&#8217;t you use it?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;You know my number, boys. I&#8217;m ready to hit the road. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2007\/03\/05\/the_charlie_watts_hoax\">Let&#8217;s stop the charade once and for all!<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the announcement coming out of Australia that Charlie Watts has quit The Rolling Stones and the counter-statement from the band, as reported in NME, that Charlie Watts has not indeed quit The Rolling Stones, legendary studio drummer Bernard &#8220;Pretty&#8221; Purdie issued his own announcement:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313"}],"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=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}