{"id":152671,"date":"2026-03-21T12:34:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=152671"},"modified":"2026-03-21T12:38:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:38:00","slug":"30-years-of-the-prodigys-firestarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/03\/21\/30-years-of-the-prodigys-firestarter\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Years Of The Prodigy&#8217;s Firestarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Prodigy - Firestarter (Official Video)\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wmin5WkOuPw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>The Prodigy<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Firestarter<\/em> &#8211; the first single from their album, <strong>The Fat of the Land<\/strong> &#8211; is 30 years old.<\/p>\n<p><em>Firestarter<\/em>, released in March 1996, was the group&#8217;s first track to feature the late <strong>Keith Flint<\/strong> on vocals. The track &#8211; and Flint&#8217;s appearance in the music video &#8211; were so striking that it went to #1 in 16 countries.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The song was written by <strong>Liam Howlett<\/strong> and Flint, but songwriting credits include several others &#8211; including <strong>The Breeders<\/strong> and <strong>The Art Of Noise<\/strong> &#8211; because of samples used.<\/p>\n<p>Flint took his life in 2019, at the age of 49. In their first tour after his death, the group turned their <em>Firestarter<\/em> performance into a tribute to Flint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firestarter, released in March 1996, was the group&#8217;s first track to feature the late Keith Flint on vocals.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/03\/21\/30-years-of-the-prodigys-firestarter\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">30 Years Of The Prodigy&#8217;s Firestarter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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":[40],"tags":[33374,1731],"class_list":["post-152671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-videos","tag-keith-flint","tag-the-prodigy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/keith-flint-prodigy-firestarter-e1551712168681.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152671"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152676,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152671\/revisions\/152676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}