{"id":3632504,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3632504/?format=json","airdate":"2026-03-22T20:56:24-07:00","show":66253,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66253/?format=json","image_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/a0078753-69cc-4977-886e-7dacb9a06517/21752063323-500.jpg","thumbnail_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/a0078753-69cc-4977-886e-7dacb9a06517/21752063323-250.jpg","song":"The Star of a Story","track_id":null,"recording_id":"e6733b71-b849-4f1a-be94-7f160ca44972","artist":"Heatwave","artist_ids":["ce809639-0e34-40c4-86c9-90a162cb3d46"],"album":"Central Heating","release_id":null,"release_group_id":"be2b96bd-a8d0-3529-8eae-b0df2d1a45aa","labels":["Epic"],"label_ids":[],"release_date":"1978-03-31","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"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.","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}