The Sunday Post: Toyah On 50 Years
A new interview with Toyah, from The Sunday Post. This was also included in P.S. magazine, with Toyah on the cover.
Toyah Willcox on the 50 years of hard graft that have kept her at the top of her game
It’s Wednesday lunchtime and I am telling Toyah Willcox my own favourite Toyah story.
I remember going to see you as part of a 1980s revival night in Glasgow, alongside Belinda Carlisle, Go West and various members of Spandau Ballet, I say. This must have been back in the late 1990s, early 2000s. I’m a bit hazy on the date, I admit.
But Toyah’s not. “2002,” she interrupts emphatically.
Ah, right. Anyway, you came bounding on to the stage and exclaimed: “Glasgow, I’ve come for your men!” And a woman in the crowd shouted back: “Take them! Take them!”
“I remember it happening!” Toyah tells me gleefully over Zoom.
Speak to the singer, actor and presenter and it’s quickly clear that she remembers everything. Dates, chart positions, people. Her memory is a Google search engine containing the records of nearly 50 years in showbiz. And there’s a lot to remember.
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