{"id":2548,"date":"2004-02-21T22:04:58","date_gmt":"2004-02-22T06:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spynotebook.org\/chip\/wordpress\/?p=2548"},"modified":"2004-02-21T22:04:58","modified_gmt":"2004-02-22T06:04:58","slug":"amusing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/2004\/02\/21\/amusing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Amusing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Reuters | Latest Financial News \/ Full News Coverage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.co.uk\/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&amp;storyID=462044&amp;section=news\">Reuters | Latest Financial News \/ Full News Coverage<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nRockers pose as teens to hit charts<br \/>\nFri 20 February, 2004 22:19<\/p>\n<p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; An ageing rock group gave themselves a facelift by getting a group of teenagers to stand in for them on the video of their latest song, helping them score their first chart hit for some 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>Convinced the music industry is prejudiced against wrinkly rockers, The Alarm gave themselves the pseudonym The Poppyfields and persuaded a group of fresh-faced youths to mime their part.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They did it to show they wanted to be judged on music and not on their image and haircuts of 15 years ago,&#8221; said a spokesman for the band.<\/p>\n<p>The single, 45RPM, went into the charts this week at number 28.<\/p>\n<p>The Welsh band were previously best known for 1983 hit &#8220;68 guns&#8221; and said they pulled the stunt to show how much image affected sales in the music industry.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters | Latest Financial News \/ Full News Coverage Rockers pose as teens to hit charts Fri 20 February, 2004 22:19 LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; An ageing rock group gave themselves a facelift by getting a group of teenagers to stand &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/2004\/02\/21\/amusing-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spynotebook.org\/chip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}