{"id":703530,"date":"2026-07-21T15:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/703530\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T15:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:04:12","slug":"pink-panther-rip-slippedisc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/703530\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Panther, RIP &#8211; Slippedisc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>norman lebrecht<\/p>\n<p>July 21, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Plas Johnson, who played the famous Pink Santher saxophone solo, has died in California in the week of his 95th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We only did two takes, I think\u2026\u2019 he recalled. \u2018When we finished, everyone applauded \u2013 even the string players, And that\u2019s saying something\u2026 They never applaud for anything.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Plas was a regular member of Henry Mancini\u2019s studio orchestra in 1963 when the Pink Panther theme came up on the music stands.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"norman lebrecht July 21, 2026 Plas Johnson, who played the famous Pink Santher saxophone solo, has died in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-703530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703530","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=703530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}