{"id":3557,"date":"2012-03-18T16:09:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T20:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=3557"},"modified":"2020-05-07T13:32:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:32:04","slug":"fever-little-willie-john-presentation-with-susan-whitall-and-keith-kevin-john-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2012\/03\/18\/fever-little-willie-john-presentation-with-susan-whitall-and-keith-kevin-john-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFever: Little Willie John\u201d Presentation with Susan Whitall and Keith &#038; Kevin John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/littlewilliejohn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3584 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 8px;\" title=\"littlewilliejohn\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/littlewilliejohn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a>On <strong>Monday April 2nd at 7pm at the Southfield Public Library <\/strong>(26300 Evergreen Road, Southfield, Michigan 48076)<strong> <\/strong>, author and Detroit News columnist <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanwhitall.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Susan Whitall<\/a><\/strong> along with Kevin and Keith John (children of Little Willie John) will host an event in  memory and celebration of one of Detroit\u2019s greatest unsung musical  heroes, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Little_Willie_John\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Little Willie John,<\/strong> <\/a>creator of such timeless classics as <strong>\u201cFever,\u201d  \u201cNeed Your Love So Bad,\u201d<\/strong> and <strong>\u201cGrits ain\u2019t Groceries.\u201d<\/strong> One of the first  singers to successfully meld gospel with rhythm and blues into what  eventually became known as soul music, Willie was primed to become a  breakout pop star when a tragic incident led to his imprisonment and  suspicious death at the age of 30.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cFever: Little Willie John\u2019s Fast Life, Mysterious Death and the Birth of Soul\u201d<\/strong><\/em> is the first authorized biography to consider the life of the  influential singer and the circumstances surrounding his untimely  death.\u00a0 Author Susan Whitall will be joined by John\u2019s two sons, Keith  and Kevin John, for a rare presentation in memory of this brilliant, and  electrifying singer.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Little Willie John is the soul singer&#8217;s soul singer.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; Marvin Gaye<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;My mother told me, if you call yourself &#8216;Little&#8217; Stevie Wonder you&#8217;d better be as good as Little Willie John.&#8221; <\/em>&#8211;<strong> Stevie Wonder<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday April 2nd at 7pm at the Southfield Public Library (26300 Evergreen Road, Southfield, Michigan 48076) , author and Detroit News columnist Susan Whitall along with Kevin and Keith John (children of Little Willie John) will host an event in memory and celebration of one of Detroit&rsquo;s greatest unsung musical heroes, Little Willie John, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}