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    "airdate": "2026-03-22T20:56:24-07:00",
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    "comment": "Heatwave released \"The Star of a Story\" on the album Central Heating in 1978. This song was sampled in the song 'Starz\" by Waajeed in 2003.\n \nWritten by Rod Temperton, \"Star of a Story,\"  appeared on George Benson's album Give Me the Night, which was produced by Quincy Jones.\n\nHeatwave is a funk band formed in London, England in 1975. Its most popular line-up featured American brothers Johnnie Wilder Jr. and Keith Wilder of Dayton, Ohio; Englishmen Rod Temperton and Roy Carter; Swiss Mario Mantese; Czechoslovak Ernest \"Bilbo\" Berger; and Jamaican Eric Johns. \n\nFounding member Johnnie Wilder was an American serviceman based in West Germany when he first began performing; upon his discharge from the US Army, he stayed in Germany.  He sang in nightclubs and taverns with an assortment of bands while still enlisted. By mid-year, he decided to relocate to the United Kingdom and through an ad placed in a local paper he linked up with songwriter/keyboardist Rod Temperton.\n\nTouring the London nightclub circuit billed as Chicago's Heatwave during the mid-1970s allowed them to refine their sound, adding a funk groove to disco beats. In search of a fuller sound vocally, Johnnie Wilder called upon his brother Keith Wilder (who was performing in a local band in Dayton, Ohio) to join the band on vocals.",
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