{"podcast":{"title":"Caropop","slug":"caropop-4326665","podcast_index_feed_id":4326665,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/thecaropopcast/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/thecaropopcast","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/thecaropopcast/20210923_222107_f86600be468f0a94861a761a0e383d24.jpg","author":"Mark Caro","episode_count":247,"summary":"There may be nothing more inspiring and entertaining than relaxed, candid conversations among creative people. Mark Caro, a relentlessly curious journalist and on-stage interviewer, loves digging into the creative process with artists and drawing out surprising stories that illuminate the work that has become part of our lives. The Caropopcast is for anyone who wants to dig deeper into the music, movies, food and culture that they love.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-11T00:21:00.797589+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/caropop-4326665"},"episode":{"title":"Liberty DeVitto (Billy Joel), Pt. 2","slug":"liberty-devitto-billy-joel-pt-2","published_at":"2026-07-02T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/caropop-4326665/liberty-devitto-billy-joel-pt-2","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/caropop-4326665","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/thecaropopcast/2957219","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/81118/2957219/thecaropopcast/2026_07_01_22_52_06_c270f434-c068-4a1c-9b1f-84e0d07194ea.mp3","summary":"In Pt. 2 of this lively, insightful conversation with Liberty DeVitto’, Billy Joel’s longtime drummer revisits the challenge of drumming in the synth-driven 1980s; the making of Joel’s albums The Bridge , Storm Front and River of Dreams ; the creation of the smash single “We Didn’t Start the Fire”; the reason DeVitto plays on only one River of Dreams song; and his irate fax that wound up on that last album’s control room wall. DeVitto also addresses his high-profile split from Joel and subsequent lawsuit against the singer-songwriter. How did they reconcile, with Joel writing the foreword to DeVitto’s memoir, Liberty: Life, Billy and the Pursuit of Happiness ? Have DeVitto and Joel played together since then? Why or why not? What did DeVitto say that got left on the cutting-room floor of the two-part HBO documentary: Billy Joel: And So It Goes ? He recalls playing with Karen Carpenter and Paul McCartney as well. (Photo: Petra den Tenter)","meta_description":"In Pt. 2 of this lively, insightful conversation with Liberty DeVitto’, Billy Joel’s longtime drummer revisits the challenge of drumming in the synth-driv…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2759,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/caropop-4326665/episodes/liberty-devitto-billy-joel-pt-2/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/caropop-4326665/liberty-devitto-billy-joel-pt-2.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}