{"id":14468,"date":"2003-11-20T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-20T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/20\/composer-michael-kamen-dead-at-55\/"},"modified":"2003-11-20T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-20T14:28:00","slug":"composer-michael-kamen-dead-at-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/20\/composer-michael-kamen-dead-at-55\/","title":{"rendered":"Composer Michael Kamen Dead At 55"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>CNN<\/i> reports that &ldquo;Michael Kamen, the Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated composer who fused hard-rock riffs with classical styling in albums for Pink Floyd and provided music for the <i>Lethal Weapon<\/i> and <i>Die Hard<\/i> movies, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/11\/19\/obit.kamen.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">died at age 55<\/a>&rdquo; of a heart attack.  I particularly enjoyed his work in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000001EIM\/andrewchorney\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Mr. Holland&rsquo;s Opus<\/i><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005NNM5\/andrewchorney\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Band Of Brothers<\/i><\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0000062IH\/andrewchorney\" target=\"_blank\"><i>From The Earth To The Moon<\/i><\/a>, although taking a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/name\/nm0004383\/\" target=\"_blank\">his IMDB profile<\/a> I didn&rsquo;t realize how prolific a soundtrack composer he was.  He will definitely be missed&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-106933850818751016?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN reports that &ldquo;Michael Kamen, the Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated composer who fused hard-rock riffs with classical styling in albums for Pink Floyd and provided music for the Lethal Weapon and Die Hard movies, has died at age 55&rdquo; of a heart attack. I particularly enjoyed his work in Mr. Holland&rsquo;s Opus, Band Of Brothers, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/20\/composer-michael-kamen-dead-at-55\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Composer Michael Kamen Dead At 55&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}