{"id":7878,"date":"2019-09-04T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T05:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=7878"},"modified":"2019-09-02T14:07:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T14:07:15","slug":"happy-birthday-blackie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=7878","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Blackie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2eov7gk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7944 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2eov7gk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2eov7gk.jpg 638w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2eov7gk-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/A-284766-1413217974-5100.jpeg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7945 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/A-284766-1413217974-5100.jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Happy Birthday <b>Steven Edward Duren<\/b> born on this day in 1956 Better known to you and me as Blackie Lawless of the Rock band WASP.\u00a0 His first break was replacing Johnny Thunders when New York Dolls toured Florida when we remained for the rest of the tour.\u00a0 He was first known as\u00a0Blackie Goozeman.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/220px-Animal_Fuck_Like_a_Beast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7920 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/220px-Animal_Fuck_Like_a_Beast.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/220px-Animal_Fuck_Like_a_Beast.jpg 220w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/220px-Animal_Fuck_Like_a_Beast-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/220px-Animal_Fuck_Like_a_Beast-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lawless is best known as bass player and singer (cough) in WASP which he started with Randy Piper who he played in previous bands before settling on the classic line up of Holmes, Piper, Lawless, and Tony Richards the band signed to Capitol Records but it was their single &#8216;Animal (Fuck Like A Beast)&#8217; that caused a right stir partly due to the lyrics (obviously) and the PMRC who were on a collision course with Rock music after the bands label refused to include the track on their debut album so it was released by Music For Nations and became an instant classic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lawless has sort of distanced himself from the track and hasn&#8217;t played it for a number of years however the band went on to enjoy great success with subsequent releases &#8216;The Last Command&#8217;, &#8216;Inside The Electric Circus&#8217; and almost twenty albums since. He&#8217;s courted controversy with canceled shows and line up changes and the use of tapes but regardless of all that Happy Birthday Blackie that debut album is a belter.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lbHYyPdQfqk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Birthday Steven Edward Duren born on this day in 1956 Better known to you and me as Blackie Lawless of the Rock band WASP.\u00a0 His first break was replacing Johnny Thunders when New York Dolls toured Florida when we remained for the rest of the tour.\u00a0 He was first known as\u00a0Blackie Goozeman.\u00a0\u00a0 Lawless is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[3210,3212,3211,3213,654,3209],"class_list":["post-7878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","tag-blackie-lawless","tag-demolition-records","tag-fuck-like-a-beast","tag-i-wanna-be-somebody","tag-new-york-dolls","tag-wasp","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7878","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=7878"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7947,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7878\/revisions\/7947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}