{"id":1405,"date":"2025-04-15T08:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T08:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/2025\/04\/15\/former-judas-priest-drummer-les-binks-dead-at-73\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T08:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T08:17:13","slug":"former-judas-priest-drummer-les-binks-dead-at-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/2025\/04\/15\/former-judas-priest-drummer-les-binks-dead-at-73\/","title":{"rendered":"Former JUDAS PRIEST Drummer LES BINKS Dead At 73"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former <strong>Judas Priest<\/strong> drummer <strong>Les Binks<\/strong> has died at 73 years old.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Binks<\/strong> drummed for <strong>Judas Priest<\/strong> between 1977 and 1979, and played on three releases \u2013 1978&#8217;s <em>Stained Class<\/em>, 1979&#8217;s <em>Hell Bent For Leather<\/em>, and the 1979 live album <em>Unleashed In The East<\/em>. <strong>Binks<\/strong> would also spend two years drumming for <strong>KK&#8217;s Priest<\/strong>, the project of former <strong>Judas Priest<\/strong> guitarist <strong>K.K. Downing<\/strong>, from 2019 to 2021.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Binks<\/strong> at least got to see <strong>Judas Priest<\/strong> inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022, as he was a part of the lineup inducted. We extend our condolences to <strong>Binks<\/strong>&#8216; friends and family at this time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are deeply saddened about the passing of <strong>Les<\/strong> and send our love to his family, friends and fans,&#8221; wrote <strong>Judas Priest<\/strong> on their social media. &#8220;The acclaimed drumming he provided was first class \u2013 demonstrating his unique techniques, flair, style and precision. Thank you <strong>Les<\/strong> \u2013 your acclaim will live on\u2026..&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DIc8sQKBKoq\/\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"zox-post-body left zoxrel zox100\">\n\t\t<strong style=\"display: block;margin: 0 auto;max-width: 660px;font-size: 1.625rem;\">Want More Metal? Subscribe To Our Daily Newsletter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Enter your information below to get a daily update with all of our headlines and receive The Orchard Metal newsletter.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/metalinjection.net\/this-is-just-a-tribute\/former-judas-priest-drummer-les-binks-dead-at-73\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Judas Priest drummer Les Binks has died at 73 years old. Binks drummed for Judas Priest between 1977 and 1979, and played on three releases \u2013 1978&#8217;s Stained Class, 1979&#8217;s Hell Bent For Leather, and the 1979 live album Unleashed In The East. Binks would also spend two years drumming for KK&#8217;s Priest, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}