{"id":123828,"date":"2019-12-18T14:47:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T13:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/18\/kenny-lynch-actor-and-pop-singer-dies-aged-81\/"},"modified":"2019-12-18T14:47:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T13:47:15","slug":"kenny-lynch-actor-and-pop-singer-dies-aged-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=123828","title":{"rendered":"Kenny Lynch, actor and pop singer, dies aged 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tributes paid to the actor and Up on the Roof singer, one of the few black British entertainers to achieve fame in the 1960sThe entertainer Kenny Lynch has died at the age of 81. Best known for on-screen roles in TV shows including The Sweeney, films such as Carry on Loving and for his pop career, Lynch\u2019s death was announced by his family on Twitter, who commented that he would be \u201cremembered &amp; missed by many\u201d.Born in Stepney, east London, in 1938, to a Barbadian father and a mother of British and Jamaican heritage, Lynch was a pioneer for black representation in the UK\u2019s entertainment industry. As a musician, Lynch was one of the country\u2019s first black pop stars, touring with the Beatles and scoring two Top 10 hits, among them Up on the Roof \u2013 originally recorded by the Drifters \u2013 which was released in 1963. He also wrote the theme music for 1978\u2019s Carry on Emmanuelle, Love Crazy. His TV career included roles and appearance on programmes such as Z-Cars, Celebrity Squares and Bullseye. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2019\/dec\/18\/kenny-lynch-actor-and-pop-singer-dies-aged-81\" target=\"_blank\">Kenny Lynch, actor and pop singer, dies aged 81<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tributes paid to the actor and Up on the Roof singer, one of the few black British entertainers to achieve fame in the 1960sThe entertainer Kenny Lynch has died at the age of 81. Best known for on-screen roles in TV shows including The Sweeney, films such as Carry on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}