{"id":30840,"date":"2024-11-13T18:02:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T18:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-nov-13-2016-leon-russell-died-at-age-74\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T18:02:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T18:02:52","slug":"on-this-day-nov-13-2016-leon-russell-died-at-age-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-nov-13-2016-leon-russell-died-at-age-74\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Nov. 13, 2016: Leon Russell died at age 74"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-11-13\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Nov. 13, 2016 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer\u00a0<strong>Leon Russell\u00a0<\/strong>died in his sleep at age 74.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">His songs, including \u201cSuperstar,\u201d \u201cA Song for You,\u201d \u201cDelta Lady\u201d and \u201cThis Masquerade,\u201d were big hits for other artists, and he worked with everyone from\u00a0<strong>Bob Dylan\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Joe Cocker\u00a0<\/strong>to\u00a0<strong>George Harrison\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>The Rolling\u00a0Stones<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In 2010,\u00a0<strong>Elton John<\/strong>, who called Russell a \u201cmentor,\u201d helped revive Russell&#8217;s career with their joint album,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Union<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, which earned a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for the song \u201cIf It Wasn\u2019t for Bad.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In 2011, Russell was inducted into both the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame. &#8220;A Song For You&#8221; was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Nov. 13, 2016 &#8230; Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer\u00a0Leon Russell\u00a0died in his sleep at age 74. His songs, including \u201cSuperstar,\u201d \u201cA Song for You,\u201d \u201cDelta Lady\u201d and \u201cThis Masquerade,\u201d were big hits for other artists, and he worked with everyone from\u00a0Bob Dylan\u00a0and\u00a0Joe Cocker\u00a0to\u00a0George Harrison\u00a0and\u00a0The Rolling\u00a0Stones. In<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-nov-13-2016-leon-russell-died-at-age-74\/\">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\/30840"}],"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=30840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}