{"id":4687,"date":"2017-01-23T20:58:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T01:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=4687"},"modified":"2017-01-23T20:59:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T01:59:42","slug":"saga-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=4687","title":{"rendered":"Saga Retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fxds1-1.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/16142909_1177244959056668_2412510621978000886_n.png?oh=a48e65651886a6a70c2184b4f3b21f33&#038;oe=590E4194\" alt=\"Saga 2017\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Progressive rock phenomenon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sagaontour.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Saga<\/a> will be no more after 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>Known primarily for 80&#8217;s hits &#8220;On the Loose&#8221;, &#8220;The Flyer&#8221;, &#8220;What Do I Know&#8221;, &#8220;Wind Him Up&#8221; and &#8220;Only Time Will Tell&#8221;, this Oakland, Ontario band had toured the world countless times, retaining a very successful career in Germany and Puerto Rico throughout the 90&#8217;s and early 2000&#8217;s. <\/p>\n<p>Lead singer Michael Sadler will be rejoining the band this year, ten years after he had officially left the band, to perform on a <a href=\"http:\/\/sagaontour.moonfruit.com\/tour\/4519368549\" target=\"_blank\">farewell tour<\/a> in Canada and Germany. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Very-Best-Saga\/dp\/B00004T2OY\/ref=as_li_ss_il?_encoding=UTF8&#038;psc=1&#038;refRID=9J5H4JY4KXRGPJD7M1YN&#038;linkCode=li2&#038;tag=musicbymailca-20&#038;linkId=9cf4b66657192dba77a77c5386d22392\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&#038;ASIN=B00004T2OY&#038;Format=_SL160_&#038;ID=AsinImage&#038;MarketPlace=CA&#038;ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;WS=1&#038;tag=musicbymailca-20\" ><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-ca.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=musicbymailca-20&#038;l=li2&#038;o=15&#038;a=B00004T2OY\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/geo.itunes.apple.com\/ca\/artist\/saga\/id4338473?app=itunes&#038;at=11lmXh\" style=\"display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;background:url(\/\/linkmaker.itunes.apple.com\/assets\/shared\/badges\/en-us\/itunes-lrg.svg) no-repeat;width:110px;height:40px;background-size:contain;\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progressive rock phenomenon Saga will be no more after 40 years. Known primarily for 80&#8217;s hits &#8220;On the Loose&#8221;, &#8220;The Flyer&#8221;, &#8220;What Do I Know&#8221;, &#8220;Wind Him Up&#8221; and &#8220;Only Time Will Tell&#8221;, this Oakland, Ontario band had toured the world countless times, retaining a very successful career in Germany and Puerto Rico throughout the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}