{"id":544810,"date":"2026-04-22T15:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544810\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:04:09","slug":"traffic-co-founder-dave-mason-dies-aged-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544810\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic co-founder Dave Mason dies aged 79"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">US songwriter Stephen Bishop, known for hits including On And On and It Might Be You, said on Instagram he had done a show with his friend in the early 1970s and remembered &#8220;how incredibly talented he was&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was always a fan of his early work with Traffic. I especially love his song Only You Know And I Know. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We stayed in touch through the years, and he was always kind to me and an incredible guitar player.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mason went on to produce hits including Shouldn&#8217;t Have Took More Than You Gave, We Just Disagree, Let It Flow and Every Woman during his solo career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also worked as a session musician, collaborating with the Rolling Stones on the song Street Fighting Man and teaming up with rocker Jimi Hendrix for his cover of Bob Dylan&#8217;s hit All Along The Watchtower.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He joined Fleetwood Mac in the 1990s for their 16th studio album, Time, and toured with them, before later starting a sustainable electric guitar company with industrial designer Ravi Sawhney in 2004. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US songwriter Stephen Bishop, known for hits including On And On and It Might Be You, said on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-544810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544810","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=544810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}