{"id":90765,"date":"2023-04-02T21:18:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T21:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/02\/gentle-giants-ray-shulman-dead-at-73\/"},"modified":"2023-04-02T21:18:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T21:18:15","slug":"gentle-giants-ray-shulman-dead-at-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/02\/gentle-giants-ray-shulman-dead-at-73\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentle Giant\u2019s Ray Shulman Dead At 73"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Gentle Giant\u2019s Ray Shulman has died at 73. His brother and bandmate Derek shared the information in a Facebook submit, writing: \u201cI was with him until the end as he bravely battled a long illness. At least I know he is now at peace.\u201d <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Shulman was born in 1949 in Portsmouth. He began making music along with his brothers Derek and Phil whereas he was nonetheless an adolescent. For a time, they have been often called Simon Dupree And The Big Sound, they usually had a high 10 hit within the UK with the psychedelic \u201cKites.\u201d After releasing one studio album, 1967\u2019s <em>Without Reservations<\/em>, they reformed as Gentle Giant. <\/p>\n<p>The Shulman brothers teamed up with a lot of completely different musicians to make a sequence of progressive rock albums, beginning with their self-titled debut in 1970 and spanning ten different albums over the subsequent decade. After Gentle Giant broke up in 1980, Ray Shulman went on to provide albums for the Sugarcubes, the Sundays, Ian McCulloch, and extra. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRay really was a genius in so many ways,\u201d his brother Derek wrote in his submit. \u201cHe was such a kind and caring soul. He was an incredible composer, musician, music producer &amp; tech wizard. He was a true artist and preferred to stay in the background and let his body of work speak for him rather than talk about himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fderek.shulman%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0gsyjPDzMjYKmwj4qvpU3j5C4sk5PATaD7aTsuJPthw8DH1GQcAP8x9jQb7GMJxLhl&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"744\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '514545615712257');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Gentle Giant\u2019s Ray Shulman has died at 73. His brother and bandmate Derek shared the information in a Facebook submit, writing: \u201cI was with him until the end as he bravely battled a long illness. At least I know he is now at peace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-90765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}