{"id":123,"date":"2011-10-21T17:44:24","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T17:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2011-11-23T16:09:05","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T16:09:05","slug":"interview-1-richard-stilgoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"VotM #1 Richard Stilgoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/rs_votm_picsmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-143\" title=\"Richard Stilgoe\" src=\"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/rs_votm_picsmall-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My first interview is with the incredibly versatile songwriter Richard Stilgoe, who wrote the lyrics to mega-hit Starlight Express, and additional lyrics for Phantom of the Opera and Cats. He talks here about university comedy with John Cleese, his amazing charity the Orpheus Centre, and coming second to the Beatles in a rock competition. I hope you enjoy it &#8211; please leave a comment, and sign up on <a title=\"Voice of the Musical - itunes\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/podcast\/voice-of-the-musical\/id474073600\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5723\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-123-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/VOTM_Richard_Stilgoe.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/VOTM_Richard_Stilgoe.mp3\">http:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/VOTM_Richard_Stilgoe.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/VOTM_Richard_Stilgoe.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/?powerpress_pinw=123-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/VOTM_Richard_Stilgoe.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"VOTM_Richard_Stilgoe.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first interview is with the incredibly versatile songwriter Richard Stilgoe, who wrote the lyrics to mega-hit Starlight Express, and additional lyrics for Phantom of the Opera and Cats. He talks here about university comedy with John Cleese, his amazing charity the Orpheus Centre, and coming second to the Beatles in a rock competition. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1],"tags":[20,12,17,19,18,16,15,11],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyricist","category-podcast","tag-express","tag-musical","tag-richard","tag-starlight","tag-stilgoe","tag-sutton","tag-tim","tag-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofthemusical.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}