{"id":76465,"date":"2010-08-19T17:08:31","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T00:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lookingcloser.org\/?p=76465"},"modified":"2012-10-04T17:51:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T23:51:39","slug":"a-great-loss-michael-been-of-the-call-one-of-the-great-rock-singers-has-died-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/2010\/08\/a-great-loss-michael-been-of-the-call-one-of-the-great-rock-singers-has-died-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Great Loss: Michael Been of The Call, One of the Great Rock Singers, Has Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>A site called Buddyhead is reporting that Michael Been has died.<br>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buddyhead.com\/michael-been-of-the-call-father-of-robert-beenbrmc-collapses-backstage-after-concert\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The site says:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Michael Been, Sound engineer and father of bassist Robert Been of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, was unwell Thursday in the backstage area of Pukkelpop. \u201cThe first aid was immediately administered by the workers of the Flemish Cross and the doctors present backstage.\u201d says festival organizer Chokri Mahassine. \u201cThe Medical Emergency Team was immediately on the spot.\u201d The 60-year-old man was rushed to the Salvator Hasselt hospital where he later died.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v-smMyAnJUc<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Call - I Still Believe\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/272T8hZUqcs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Call - Let The Day Begin\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cXywSZ-Zdmg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A site called Buddyhead is reporting that Michael Been has died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1051,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1551,244,1552],"class_list":["post-76465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-michael-been","tag-obituaries","tag-the-call"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Great Loss: Michael Been of The Call, One of the Great Rock Singers, Has Died<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A site called Buddyhead is reporting that Michael Been has died. 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