{"id":5751,"date":"2020-08-26T23:51:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T03:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=5751"},"modified":"2020-08-26T23:51:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T03:51:09","slug":"rip-gerry-mcghee-1962-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=5751","title":{"rendered":"RIP Gerry McGhee 1962-2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLR5B0o9y2ZLxN51oisemNcXtc3Ecu7pOv\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brightonrock.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Brighton Rock<\/a> lead singer and record executive Gerry McGhee has passed away from cancer at age 58.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Known primarily for &#8217;80s glam rock singles &#8220;<em>We Came To Rock<\/em>&#8220;, &#8220;<em>Can&#8217;t Wait For The Night<\/em>&#8221; and &#8220;<em>One More Try<\/em>&#8220;, Brighton Rock had disbanded shortly after the release of their third studio album, 1991&#8217;s &#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3liFCJv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Love Machine<\/a>&#8220;<\/em>. But had occasionally regrouped for concerts and tours in England and Canada from 2001 to 2014, releasing a live album entitled &#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2D6nvoO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Room for Five Live<\/a><\/em>&#8221; in 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1996, Gerry McGee had founded music distributor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isotopemusic.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Isotope Music<\/a> Inc and in 2016 became vice-president of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.precisionpressing.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\">Precision Records<\/a>, North America&#8217;s second-largest vinyl pressing facility. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brighton Rock lead singer and record executive Gerry McGhee has passed away from cancer at age 58. Known primarily for &#8217;80s glam rock singles &#8220;We Came To Rock&#8220;, &#8220;Can&#8217;t Wait For The Night&#8221; and &#8220;One More Try&#8220;, Brighton Rock had disbanded shortly after the release of their third studio album, 1991&#8217;s &#8220;Love Machine&#8220;. But had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6,7],"tags":[150,1429],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751"}],"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=5751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}