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Praying to the silent man…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n ‘Rebel Run’, released in September 1983, was Toyah’s 13th single in the UK. It’s fitting that the song is celebrating it’s 30th anniversary in 2013.<\/p>\n This was one of only two singles to be released by Toyah in 1983 and was the debut from the album ‘Love Is The Law’. It was written by Toyah and Simon Darlow and reached number 24 in the UK Top 40.<\/p>\n Toyah said of the imagery: \u201cThis is the Rebel Run look. I was into armour. A friend, Simon, made a bronze headdress based on the skeletal structure of American football players.”<\/p>\n \u2022 Download ‘Rebel Run’ at iTunes<\/a><\/strong>, view the promo video<\/a><\/strong>, and the airing on Top Of The Pops<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0Watch Toyah perform the single on Hold Tight<\/a><\/strong> and Saturday Superstore<\/a><\/strong>. Listen to the song live at Hammersmith Odeon<\/a><\/strong> on the ‘Rebel Run’ Tour in December 1983. Andromeda Rising covered the song in 2005. Listen to their version\u00a0here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Praying to the silent man… ‘Rebel Run’, released in September 1983, was Toyah’s 13th single in the UK. It’s fitting that the song is celebrating it’s 30th anniversary in 2013. This was one of only two singles to be released by Toyah in 1983 and was the debut from the album ‘Love Is The Law’. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[128,276,538],"tags":[282],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13102"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13112,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13102\/revisions\/13112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rem83rrb.jpg\" "\\"rem83rrb\\"")
Toyah made a memorable video for the single and promoted it with numerous appearances and interviews on shows including TVAM’s Summer Run, Hold Tight, The Saturday Show, Saturday Superstore<\/em>, and German TV show Jugendabend<\/em>. The video was also played on Top Of The Pops<\/em>.<\/p>\n