{"id":20957,"date":"2021-05-08T05:30:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T09:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=20957"},"modified":"2021-05-08T09:05:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T13:05:53","slug":"farewell-mr-personality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/08\/farewell-mr-personality\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell, Mr. Personality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20958\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lloyd_price_publicity.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lloyd_price_publicity.jpg 262w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lloyd_price_publicity-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/>It was nearly six years ago that I had the pleasure and honor of interviewing a rock\u2019n\u2019roll legend. Lloyd Price scored many hits: nearly 30 of his songs made it onto the charts. And even as he moved into the twilight of his years, he continued to tour. He also wrote a fascinating, lively and provocative memoir, titled <em>Sumdumhonky<\/em>. And it was in connection with that project that I found myself on the phone with \u201cMr. Personality\u201d in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Lloyd Price passed away two days ago, having recently celebrated his 88<sup>th<\/sup> birthday. The finest honor one can pay to the man is to listen to his music and share it with others. And if you\u2019re so inclined, reading <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/16\/lloyd-price-taks-about-sumdumhonky-part-1\/\">my interview feature<\/a> \u2013 and then his book \u2013 will fill in some of the spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Godspeed, Mr. Personality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was nearly six years ago that I had the pleasure and honor of interviewing a rock\u2019n\u2019roll legend. Lloyd Price scored many hits: nearly 30 of his songs made it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1336],"class_list":["post-20957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay","tag-lloyd-price","cat-27-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20959,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20957\/revisions\/20959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}