{"id":4256,"date":"2011-06-12T06:36:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T14:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/?p=4256"},"modified":"2011-06-12T06:36:22","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T14:36:22","slug":"graham-gouldman-on-andrew-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/12\/graham-gouldman-on-andrew-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham Gouldman On Andrew Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/archives\/2011\/06\/04\/andrew-gold\/\" title=\"Re: Andrew Gold\">Re: Andrew Gold<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"margin-right: 0px;\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">Hi Bob<\/p>\n<p>I lost a dear friend and songwriting partner last week, the singer, songwriter, producer and multinstrumentalist Andrew Gold.<\/p>\n<p>He died in his sleep of a heart attack, following years of battling cancer, at the untimely age of fifty nine. <\/p>\n<p>I first met Andrew in 1981 when 10cc&#8217;s US record company, Warner Brothers, recommended him as a co producer and writer, the idea being that 10cc&#8217;s chances of breaking into the American market would be greatly enhanced by us working with him.<\/p>\n<p>That collaboration resulted in three great singles, testament to the fact that the partnership really worked well.<\/p>\n<p>In 1982, when Eric Stewart and I decided not to continue working together as 10cc, I called Andrew in L.A. and invited him over to my house in Cheshire to write some songs for a couple of weeks. He stayed for six months.<\/p>\n<p>What followed was five glorious years working together as Wax.<\/p>\n<p>Although we stopped working\u00c2\u00a0 under that name in 1988 we continued to write and record together on various projects throughout the nineties.<\/p>\n<p>We always kept in touch with each other and were planning to get together again to write and possibly record a new Wax album, which we were both very excited about.<\/p>\n<p>Working with Andrew was my happiest musical partnership.<\/p>\n<p>He was an awesome talent and it was a pleasure and a privilege to have him both as a friend and to make music with him.<\/p>\n<p>Graham Gouldman<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Re: Andrew Gold Hi Bob I lost a dear friend and songwriting partner last week, the singer, songwriter, producer and multinstrumentalist Andrew Gold. He died in his sleep of a heart attack, following years of battling cancer, at the untimely age of fifty nine. I first met Andrew in 1981 when 10cc&#8217;s US record company, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p96vPs-16E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4257,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256\/revisions\/4257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}