Toyah 60: “This Is Just The Beginning”
A faberoonie birthday photo of Toyah. She tweeted today: “Yeh! BRING IT ON! This is just the beginning“. (Photo © Toyah Willcox)
A faberoonie birthday photo of Toyah. She tweeted today: “Yeh! BRING IT ON! This is just the beginning“. (Photo © Toyah Willcox)
Toyah Willcox turns 60: Singer looks unrecognisable in series of racy unearthed snaps
Toyah Willcox is celebrating her 60th birthday today and throwback pictures of the singer show her looking a world away from her present appearance.
Across the multi-talented star’s 40-year career, she has scored 12 charting singles, recorded 24 albums, appeared in 40 stage plays, 20 films and has written two books. In one unearthed snap, the singer was captured mid-performing in 1997 play Cabaret, one of her most memorable stage appearances.
• Continue reading at the Express for some great photos and utterly ridiculous “journalism”.
Many Happy Returns to Toyah, who is celebrating turning 60 today. Wishing Toyah a fun filled day and a wonderful future decade. #Toyah60
Two great photos shared on social media yesterday in celebration of Toyah and Robert’s wedding anniversary and Mr Fripp’s 72nd birthday. (Photos © Toyah Willcox/Official Toyah)
Wishing Mr & Mrs Fripp a Happy 32nd Anniversary, and Happy Birthday to Robert. Here is a selection of photos from over the years. Have a fantastic day.
Wishing Toyah a faberoonie birthday. (Thanks to Mark Satchwill)
Happy Birthday Joel: All the best to Joel Bogen who is 58 today. Toyah’s guitarist and songwriting partner from the very beginning of her music career and through all the Safari Records years and albums. He co-wrote songs like Neon Womb, Danced, Computer, Elusive Stranger, Our Movie, Race Through Space, Vision, Love Me, Ieya, Bird in Flight, Jungles of Jupiter, Castaways, The Packt, Dawn Chorus, Brave New World, Laughing With The Fools, Angel & Me, Be Proud Be Loud (Be Heard), Dreamscape, Martian Cowboy, Moonlight Dancing and many others.
We’ve reached the final day of our count down to Toyah’s Birthday – Yes! Toyah’s big day is tomorrow! – and the last day of revisiting past Dreamscape birthday updates… To celebrate Toyah’s 50th Birthday in 2008 a special mini-site was put together, which you can visit by clicking below…
The Official Toyah website also gave fans some great Toyah treats that landmark year, including a gorgeous new look website and lots of special content related to Toyah’s 50th.
Today we are continuing to count down to Toyah’s Birthday and back in 2010 we were doing the same… with rare photos, radio interviews, classic interviews and more in a “1981 themed” celebration. Take the leap back to May 2010…
Dreamscape’s 2012 birthday updates centred around rare footage from Look! Hear! (1981) and Dear Heart (1982)…
This week (and a bit of next) we are counting down to Toyah’s birthday by revisiting past birthday updates (as you do!).
May 2003 was an exciting month for Toyah fans. Not only did Toyah turn 45 but there was the not insignificant matter of the release of a brand new album. Toyah’s first all-new studio album in nine years and also of the new Millennium:
“Velvet Lined Shell (catalogue number VSR001) is released on Toyah’s own, newly formed, record label, Vertical Species. The CD artwork is dark and dramatic, similar to the actual music. Toyah has cited Mogwai, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Marilyn Manson and Elbow (among others) as her influences while recording these new songs.”
• Revisit May 2003 here. Further info on Velvet Lined Shell at The Official Toyah Discography.
Ten years ago there were a series of Gallery, Features, Downloads and Press Archive updates to Dreamscape, in celebration of Toyah’s birthday. Click below to take a trip back to May 2006.
It’s exactly one week until Toyah’s birthday. In years gone by Dreamscape has sporadically “counted down” to Toyah’s big day and, what the heck, we are doing it again… There will be a birthday related post right here every day until May 18th.
Today – Take a look back at how we marked Toyah’s birthday five years ago: There were previously unseen polaroids and rare photos, screen caps from long-ago TV roles, features (including an Anthem one that is finally being printed as I type!) and much more…
Sending Best Wishes to Toyah on her birthday. Have a fantastic day x
A special upload at Fragments for Toyah’s birthday – My Big Year, a pilot show, filmed at BBC Scotland in 2000, which never aired. Toyah talks to Rory McGrath about her career, and 1981.
Wishing Toyah and Robert a Happy Anniversary, their 28th!, and Happy Birthday too to Mr Fripp. Here is a selection of photos from over the years. Have a lovely day.