{"id":750178,"date":"2026-02-08T08:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T08:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/750178\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T08:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T08:19:12","slug":"fred-smith-blondie-and-television-guitarist-dies-at-77-london-evening-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/750178\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Smith: Blondie and Television guitarist dies at 77 – London Evening Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Fred Smith: Blondie and Television guitarist dies at 77<\/a>  London Evening Standard<\/li>\n
  2. Blondie legend and Television bassist dies as bandmate pays emotional tribute<\/a>  Daily Star<\/li>\n
  3. Fred Smith, Bassist for Television, Dead at 77<\/a>  Rolling Stone<\/li>\n
  4. Fred Smith, Bassist for Television, Dies at 77<\/a>  Variety<\/li>\n
  5. Tributes paid as Television and original Blondie bassist Fred Smith dies, age 77: “He was a natural \u2013 never flashy, always essential”<\/a>  nme.com<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fred Smith: Blondie and Television guitarist dies at 77  London Evening Standard Blondie legend and Television bassist dies as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[42406,10957,42408,77,269,11727,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-750178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-blondie","9":"tag-death","10":"tag-debbie-harry","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-television","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116034035044832671","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}