{"id":29350,"date":"2024-04-24T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T00:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/def-leppard-pays-tribute-to-guitarist-steve-clark-on-what-would-have-been-his-64th-birthday\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T00:00:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T00:00:34","slug":"def-leppard-pays-tribute-to-guitarist-steve-clark-on-what-would-have-been-his-64th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/def-leppard-pays-tribute-to-guitarist-steve-clark-on-what-would-have-been-his-64th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Def Leppard pays tribute to guitarist Steve Clark on what would have been his 64th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-23\/Getty_SteveClark_042324.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Pete Still\/Redferns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Def Leppard<\/strong> is paying tribute to their late\u00a0guitarist\u00a0<strong>Steve Clark<\/strong> on what would have been the rocker\u2019s 64th birthday.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The band shared\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C6Gm2GCrvCK\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>on Instagram<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0a montage of pictures and\u00a0videos of Clark performing,\u00a0captioning the post, \u201cRemembering Steve Clark today. Happy birthday, you are missed dearly.&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Clark, born April 23, 1960, joined Def Leppard in 1978 and appeared on their 1980 debut album,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">On Through The Night<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">. His last album with the band was 1987\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Hysteria<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, which went to #1 and featured the #1 hit \u201cLove Bites,\u201d along with classic tunes \u201cPour Some Sugar On Me,\u201d \u201cAnimal,\u201d &#8220;Armageddon It\u201d and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Clark died January 8, 1991. At the time of his death he was on a leave\u00a0from\u00a0the band due to his alcohol issues. He was posthumously inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Def Leppard in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Still\/Redferns Def Leppard is paying tribute to their late\u00a0guitarist\u00a0Steve Clark on what would have been the rocker\u2019s 64th birthday.\u00a0 The band shared\u00a0on Instagram\u00a0a montage of pictures and\u00a0videos of Clark performing,\u00a0captioning the post, \u201cRemembering Steve Clark today. Happy birthday, you are missed dearly.&#8221;\u00a0 Clark, born April 23, 1960, joined Def<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/def-leppard-pays-tribute-to-guitarist-steve-clark-on-what-would-have-been-his-64th-birthday\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}