{"id":25899,"date":"2026-04-04T16:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/splash985fm.com\/?p=25899"},"modified":"2026-04-04T16:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:07:06","slug":"james-gadson-death-drummer-for-diana-ross-bill-withers-dies-at-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/splash985fm.com\/?p=25899","title":{"rendered":"James Gadson Death: Drummer for Diana Ross &amp; Bill Withers, Dies at 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Legendary drummer James Gadson, who backed iconic artists including Diana Ross, Bill Withers, and Marvin Gaye, has died. He was 86.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u200bLegendary drummer James Gadson, who backed iconic artists including Diana Ross, Bill Withers, and Marvin Gaye, has died. He was 86.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/rss.app\/articles\/cb4e791f6f6d729c04434f0c7ddfb987091111331b71b1eecfad8a0f968f6488ef0ab6553ac5803db4e175278e495ad07d8239b5814d2509df6e9427d9df1e7ed6eb38b7e7ae24ebed9d60a125e8240ecf26401b4041fffaa4d53a4ec0c6bea7c8dfd4d6471dd84c96c63e36dc29\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary drummer James Gadson, who backed iconic artists including Diana Ross, Bill Withers, and Marvin Gaye, has died. He was 86. \u200bLegendary drummer James Gadson, who backed iconic artists including Diana Ross, Bill Withers, and Marvin Gaye, has died. He was 86.\u00a0\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/splash985fm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/splash985fm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/splash985fm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splash985fm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/splash985fm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/splash985fm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splash985fm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splash985fm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}