{"id":19324,"date":"2014-04-19T13:55:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T12:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=19324"},"modified":"2014-04-19T13:55:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T12:55:45","slug":"chorley-guardian-life-begins-at-50-for-toyah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/chorley-guardian-life-begins-at-50-for-toyah\/","title":{"rendered":"Chorley Guardian: Life Begins At 50 \u2013 For Toyah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chorley-guardian.co.uk\/what-s-on\/music\/life-begins-at-50-for-toyah-1-6569511\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.chorley-guardian.co.uk\/what-s-on\/music\/life-begins-at-50-for-toyah-1-6569511\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19325 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"chorleyguardian14a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/chorleyguardian14a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a>She\u2019s 55 but already this year she\u2019s high dived in Splash and made her point on Pointless \u2013 now she\u2019s back on the road &#8211; as Tony Dewhurst discovers<\/p>\n<p>Toyah Willcox has never been afraid to speak her mind, and, now she\u2019s a 50-something, the former high priestess of punk doesn\u2019t show any signs of putting the brakes on.<\/p>\n<p>Toyah burst on to the pop scene with smash hits It\u2019s A Mystery and I Want To Be Free, and since then she\u2019s also enjoyed a successful career as a singer, presenter and an actress, appearing in several films, stage plays and in numerous television dramas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe punk revolution changed my life, but I\u2019m as busy now as I ever was,\u201d said Toyah, who brings her colourful greatest hits stage show to Clitheroe tonight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSlow down? Not a chance. \u201cI love performing and I\u2019m chocka with commitments.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chorley-guardian.co.uk\/what-s-on\/music\/life-begins-at-50-for-toyah-1-6569511\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Chorley Guardian<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She\u2019s 55 but already this year she\u2019s high dived in Splash and made her point on Pointless \u2013 now she\u2019s back on the road &#8211; as Tony Dewhurst discovers Toyah Willcox has never been afraid to speak her mind, and, now she\u2019s a 50-something, the former high priestess of punk doesn\u2019t show any signs of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[145,27],"tags":[1066,968],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19324"}],"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=19324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19326,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19324\/revisions\/19326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}