{"id":95419,"date":"2026-08-31T00:08:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=95419"},"modified":"2026-08-31T00:08:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:08:02","slug":"barry-and-gladys-step-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2026\/08\/31\/barry-and-gladys-step-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry and Gladys Step Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Barry Manilow <\/strong>has been plagued with health issues since his cancer surgery in December.&nbsp; And it seems he isn\u2019t completely out of the woods.&nbsp; He recently stopped a show mid-way due to \u201ctechnical and vocal problems\u201d, and then he cancelled a few others.&nbsp; Now he has stepped away from what was billed as <strong><em>The Last Concerts<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; \u201cHi everybody \u2013 Barry here.&nbsp; And I want you to be the first to know that we\u2019re going to take a quick break.&nbsp; We just finished a fantastic summer tour.&nbsp; 29 shows in 68 days.&nbsp; The shows were fantastic.&nbsp; The audiences were fantastic.&nbsp; And I sounded fantastic.&nbsp; But it seems that we were pushing a little too hard.\u201d&nbsp; Feel better, Barry!<\/p>\n<p>For months, people have been speculating about <strong>Gladys Knight<\/strong>\u2019s mental acuity.&nbsp; Her recent shows have been marred by mental lapses, a frail appearance, and the need for an enormous amount of help from her backup singers \u2013 who often had to sing lead.&nbsp; Last week, Knight made an announcement: \u201cAfter much soul searching I\u2019ve decided that I will be easing into fewer performances while focusing on transitioning into the next stage of my career and life moving forward.\u201d&nbsp; And there\u2019s your headline \u2013 Gladys Knight \u2013 Transitioning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Manilow has been plagued with health issues since his cancer surgery in December.&nbsp; And it seems he isn\u2019t completely out of the woods.&nbsp; He recently stopped a show mid-way due to \u201ctechnical and vocal problems\u201d, and then he cancelled a few others.&nbsp; Now he has stepped away from what was billed as The Last<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95420,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95419\/revisions\/95420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}