{"id":29809,"date":"2024-06-27T15:02:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T15:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-27-2002-the-whos-john-entwistle-dies\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T15:02:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T15:02:36","slug":"on-this-day-june-27-2002-the-whos-john-entwistle-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-27-2002-the-whos-john-entwistle-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, June 27, 2002: The Who\u2019s John Entwistle dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-27\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, June 27, 2002 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">One day before the start of <strong>The Who<\/strong>\u2019s U.S. tour, bassist <strong>John \u201cThe Ox\u201d Entwistle<\/strong> died of a cocaine-induced heart attack. He was found dead in his room at the Hard Rock Hotel &amp; Casino in Las Vegas by the groupie and stripper he had spent the night with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">He was 57.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;The Ox has left the building\u2014we&#8217;ve lost another great friend,\u201d The Who&#8217;s <strong>Roger Daltrey<\/strong> and <strong>Pete Townshend<\/strong>\u00a0shared in a tribute after Entwistle\u2019s death. \u201cThanks for your support and love. Pete and Roger.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The Who decided to go on with their tour and\u00a0resumed their\u00a0shows on July 1 with bassist <strong>Pino Palladino<\/strong> taking Entwistle\u2019s place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">In addition to his time with The Who, Entwistle released several solo albums, which\u00a0were the subject of a new box set,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Ox Box Set,\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\ufeffreleased in May. A compilation of rarities,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Rarities Oxhumed &#8211; Volume Two, <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">is due out in August.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, June 27, 2002 &#8230; One day before the start of The Who\u2019s U.S. tour, bassist John \u201cThe Ox\u201d Entwistle died of a cocaine-induced heart attack. He was found dead in his room at the Hard Rock Hotel &amp; Casino in Las Vegas by the groupie and stripper<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-27-2002-the-whos-john-entwistle-dies\/\">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\/29809"}],"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=29809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}