{"id":475439,"date":"2026-03-14T15:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T15:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/475439\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T15:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T15:29:07","slug":"motorhead-guitarist-phil-campbell-dies-aged-64-after-courageous-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/475439\/","title":{"rendered":"Mot\u00f6rhead guitarist Phil Campbell dies aged 64 after &#8216;courageous battle&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mot\u00f6rhead were the authors of heavy metal anthems including the Ace of Spades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Campbell went on to tour with his own band, alongside his three sons, and recently performed a &#8220;sell-out&#8221; show at the Muni arts centre in his hometown of Pontypridd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All at Y Muni are saddened to hear of the passing of Phil Campbell,&#8221; the arts centre said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Phil was a huge influence on the music industry and will be remembered fondly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The German heavy metal singer Doro Pesch said she was &#8220;at a loss for words&#8221;, adding that it had been an honour to call Campbell her friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mot\u00f6rhead were the authors of heavy metal anthems including the Ace of Spades. Campbell went on to tour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-475439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}