{"id":1303,"date":"2018-10-11T11:35:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T11:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2018-10-11T11:35:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T11:35:23","slug":"happy-birthday-the-cosmic-ted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=1303","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday The Cosmic Ted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then somebody or somebodies come along and shape the person you are through their music.\u00a0 One such larger than life character\u00a0in Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll who certainly had it all to offer and the potential to be one of the\u00a0greats.\u00a0 Born on this day back in 1962\u00a0<b>Antti Hulkko<\/b>\u00a0was his name you\u00a0and I would probably know him as Andy McCoy (The Cosmic Ted).\u00a0 A man who had style, individuality and an abundance of talent as well as penning some of my favourite songs ever whether he realised that potential is another question for another time.<\/p>\n<p>Here at RPM we&#8217;d like to wish Andy McCoy a happy birthday and whilst we haven&#8217;t\u00a0baked him a cake nor have we got him a gift we have however got a few links for you to share the love and maybe watch a\u00a0video of his unique talent and ability.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many happy returns Mr. McCoy hows about a rock n roll album someday soon?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/andymccoyofficial\/\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-hw0Wi715E0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then somebody or somebodies come along and shape the person you are through their music.\u00a0 One such larger than life character\u00a0in Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll who certainly had it all to offer and the potential to be one of the\u00a0greats.\u00a0 Born on this day back in 1962\u00a0Antti Hulkko\u00a0was his name you\u00a0and I would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[122,123,124],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-andy-mccoy","tag-hanoi-rocks","tag-suicide-twins","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}