{"id":21458,"date":"2015-02-14T01:05:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T01:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=21458"},"modified":"2015-02-14T02:09:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T02:09:17","slug":"bbc-news-wales-archive-toyah-interviews-steve-strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/bbc-news-wales-archive-toyah-interviews-steve-strange\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC News Wales: Archive: Toyah Interviews Steve Strange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-31460866\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-31460866\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21459 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"bbcnews15a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/bbcnews15a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a>Steve Strange, lead singer of 1980s pop band Visage, has died aged 55 following a heart attack, his record label says. The Welsh New Romantic icon &#8211; best known for the hit Fade To Grey &#8211; died in hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-Visage bandmates Midge Ure and Rusty Egan said they were &#8220;devastated&#8221; to hear of his &#8220;untimely passing&#8221;, adding: &#8220;Steve was a major face of the 80s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In this archive footage from 1980, Toyah Willcox interviewed Strange, from Newbridge, Caerphilly, about his band and clubs.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading\/watch the clip at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-31460866\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>BBC News Wales<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Strange, lead singer of 1980s pop band Visage, has died aged 55 following a heart attack, his record label says. The Welsh New Romantic icon &#8211; best known for the hit Fade To Grey &#8211; died in hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Ex-Visage bandmates Midge Ure and Rusty Egan said they were &#8220;devastated&#8221; to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[546,168],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21458"}],"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=21458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21460,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21458\/revisions\/21460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}