{"id":2059,"date":"2012-04-14T13:25:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T12:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/?p=2059"},"modified":"2012-11-09T07:35:57","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T07:35:57","slug":"sounds-toyah-reveals-her-secret-desires-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/sounds-toyah-reveals-her-secret-desires-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"Sounds: Toyah Reveals Her Secret Desires (1982)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This is an interesting interview from around the time of ‘The Changeling’ album and the UK tour. Toyah and Joel talk the music, the imagery, the fans, the songwriting, sex appeal and much more. Toyah also explains the origins of the “breast bared” photo(s) and why it was taken.<\/p>\n

“I’d like to have Bo Derek’s body and someone else’s brain…”<\/strong><\/p>\n

It wasn’t until my third interview in nine weeks with Toyah that I felt confident enough to broach the subject of sex. As casually as I possibly could, I suggested to her that compared to other female artists ranging from Kim Wilde to Kate Bush to Souxsie, her image contains virtually no sex appeal, despite being a young, vivacious, attractive girl.<\/p>\n

“I think, supposedly onstage, there’s much more sex appeal than in the photos” she counters. ” But I couldn’t do an Annabella (Lwin of Bow Wow Wow), I couldn’t show parts of my body…”<\/p>\n

WHAAAT!! There’s that infamous pic of you with one breast bared and daubed with painted circles which has appeared almost everywhere from Sounds and Punk’s Not Dead to The Sun!<\/p>\n

“Oh the ‘boob photo’ that’s the only one that exists, and no one knows why that was done” she offers matter of factly.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Continue reading at the ‘Dreamscape Press Archive’ here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is an interesting interview from around the time of ‘The Changeling’ album and the UK tour. Toyah and Joel talk the music, the imagery, the fans, the songwriting, sex appeal and much more. Toyah also explains the origins of the “breast bared” photo(s) and why it was taken. “I’d like to have Bo Derek’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,5,145,46],"tags":[325],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059"}],"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=2059"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9712,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions\/9712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}