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FAREWELL TO A FRIEND, AN INSPIRATION AND AN INCREDIBLE MUSICIAN<\/strong><\/p>\n Southern Gypsey Queen drummer Paul Wilson, died of a heart attack on Wednesday afternoon at Molteno Hospital, in the Eastern Cape.<\/p>\n He was only\u00a029.Wilson had been suffering from a serious case of meningitis, but had been expected to recover.<\/p>\n Inspired by John Bonham, Chad Smith, Matt Sorum and Taylor Hawkins – Paul Wilson, embraced life to the full \u2013 he drummed his way into people\u2019s hearts through his incredible talent as a drummer with Southern Gypsey Queen, the incredible positive outlook he had for everything he did and the constant smile that he wore.<\/p>\n His sudden death was a great shock to all of us, as he was a great friend, with a vibrant and happy personality. The way that Paul impacted people’s lives was clear on Wednesday evening as the new broke – with messages of condolences filling time lines, Facebook walls and trending maps online.<\/p>\n There are no words to express the loss that friends, family and the music industry in South Africa are experiencing. Our thoughts are with his friends and family. Paulie<\/i> <\/strong>\u2013 We\u2019re going to miss you.<\/p>\n Paul Wilson – September 6, 1983 \u2013 April 10, 2013<\/b><\/p>\n Source Southern Pulse and Rolling Stone<\/p>\n [youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jLCvhPeuqgc?rel=0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FAREWELL TO A FRIEND, AN INSPIRATION AND AN INCREDIBLE MUSICIAN Southern Gypsey Queen drummer Paul Wilson, died of a heart attack on Wednesday afternoon at Molteno Hospital, in the Eastern Cape. He was only\u00a029.Wilson had been suffering from a serious case of meningitis, but had been expected to recover. Inspired by John Bonham, Chad Smith, Matt Sorum and Taylor Hawkins – Paul Wilson, embraced life to the full \u2013 he drummed his way into people\u2019s hearts through his incredible talent as a drummer with Southern Gypsey Queen, the incredible positive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Southern](\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/southern-gypsey-queen.jpg?w=300\")