{"id":72891,"date":"2018-06-14T10:32:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T15:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=72891"},"modified":"2018-06-14T10:47:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T15:47:57","slug":"elvis-presleys-longtime-drummer-d-j-fontana-dead-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=72891","title":{"rendered":"Elvis Presley&#8217;s Longtime Drummer D.J. Fontana DEAD at 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[AdSense-A]<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=72891\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=72891\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-72890 size-full\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Dj.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>By Brad Berkwitt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>D.J. Fontana (Dominic Joseph) the long time drummer for the legendary Elvis Presley died yesterday at the age of 87. Fontana&#8217;s son David announced the drummer&#8217;s death on Facebook, writing, &#8220;My Dad passed away in his sleep at 9:33 tonight. He was very comfortable with no pain. I will post more tomorrow when I have more information. We ask for privacy at this time. Thank you for your love and prayers.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Fontana played with the King of Rock and Rock Roll Elvis Presley for 14 years, accompanying him on over 460 cuts for RCA including rock and roll standards like &#8220;Blue Suede Shoes,&#8221; &#8220;Heartbreak Hotel,&#8221; &#8220;Hound Dog&#8221; and &#8220;Jailhouse Rock.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ringside Report extends our condolences to the Fontana Family in their time of grief.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rJVcezXLTj8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n[si-contact-form form=&#8217;1&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[AdSense-A] By Brad Berkwitt D.J. Fontana (Dominic Joseph) the long time drummer for the legendary Elvis Presley died yesterday at the age of 87. Fontana&#8217;s son David announced the drummer&#8217;s death on Facebook, writing, &#8220;My Dad passed away in his sleep at 9:33 tonight. He was very comfortable with no pain. I will post more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17984],"tags":[18319],"class_list":["post-72891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-elvis-presleys-longtime-drummer-d-j-fontana-dead-at-87"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72891"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}