{"id":9804,"date":"2011-10-25T11:15:24","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T15:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=9804"},"modified":"2011-10-25T12:18:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T16:18:09","slug":"he-was-a-great-man-but-did-they-play-it-at-his-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/he-was-a-great-man-but-did-they-play-it-at-his-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"He Was a Great Man, but Did They Play It at His Funeral?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_9813\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9813\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9813 \" title=\"faceless\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/faceless-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/faceless-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/faceless-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/faceless.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9813\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Leka<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yes, as it must to all men, death came to <strong>Paul Leka<\/strong>, co-writer of the immortal &#8220;Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye),&#8221; a #1 hit for imaginary group <strong>Steam<\/strong> in 1969, as well as the writer\/producer of\u00a0 psychedelic bubblegum classic &#8220;Green Tambourine,&#8221; and more.\u00a0Read all about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/23\/arts\/music\/paul-leka-a-songwriter-of-na-na-hey-hey-dies-at-68.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and watch &#8220;Steam&#8221; in their &#8220;performance&#8221; of &#8220;Na Na Hey Hey,&#8221; a rare case of a band becoming more faceless <em>after <\/em>you see them than they were before.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hO5Z0PxiZkg?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><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 classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"602\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"data\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip400x602.swf\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip400x602.swf\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"602\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip400x602.swf\" data=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip400x602.swf\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, as it must to all men, death came to Paul Leka, co-writer of the immortal &#8220;Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye),&#8221; a #1 hit for imaginary group Steam in 1969, as well as the writer\/producer of\u00a0 psychedelic bubblegum classic &#8220;Green Tambourine,&#8221; and more.\u00a0Read all about it here and watch &#8220;Steam&#8221; in their &#8220;performance&#8221; <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/he-was-a-great-man-but-did-they-play-it-at-his-funeral\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[522,170,524,521],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804"}],"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\/1269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}