{"id":20953,"date":"2014-12-07T06:24:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T06:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=20953"},"modified":"2014-12-07T06:24:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T06:24:54","slug":"toyah-christmas-neils-sh-christmas-18-days-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/toyah-christmas-neils-sh-christmas-18-days-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyah @ Christmas: Neil&#8217;s SH Christmas (18 Days To Go)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/category\/christmas-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/category\/christmas-2014\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20896 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"christmas14f\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/christmas14f.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"72\" \/><\/a>Neil Tennant\u2019s Smash Hits Christmas<\/em> aired on \u2018BBC Radio 2\u2032 on the 20th December 2012. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">An interesting look back at the golden years of the magazine, including contributions from Toyah, talking about \u2018Smash Hits\u2019 in general as well as\u00a0her iconic \u201cBrave New World\u201d cover from 1982. Listen to the full programme at\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N1q_pn6pTWA\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">You Tube<\/span><\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N1q_pn6pTWA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N1q_pn6pTWA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"ntshc12f\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ntshc12f.jpg\" width=\"595\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Neil Tennant had a life as a journalist before he became famous as a Pet Shop Boy. In fact, it was on a Smash Hits trip to New York that he had his big breakthrough with the record producer Bobby O. Here, 30 years after his first stint on pop\u2019s most successful and inventive magazine, Neil recalls the golden days of Smash Hits. We hear from founder and legendary magazine maker Nick Logan, editors David Hepworth and Mark Ellen, writers Miranda Sawyer and Sylvia Patterson, and from regular Smash Hits cover girl, Toyah.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Tennant\u2019s Smash Hits Christmas aired on \u2018BBC Radio 2\u2032 on the 20th December 2012. An interesting look back at the golden years of the magazine, including contributions from Toyah, talking about \u2018Smash Hits\u2019 in general as well as\u00a0her iconic \u201cBrave New World\u201d cover from 1982. Listen to the full programme at\u00a0You Tube. Neil Tennant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1168,67],"tags":[477],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20953"}],"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=20953"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20966,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20953\/revisions\/20966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}