{"id":22986,"date":"2015-07-08T06:40:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T05:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=22986"},"modified":"2015-07-08T05:43:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T04:43:49","slug":"irish-daily-star-eighties-pop-star-blasts-u2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/irish-daily-star-eighties-pop-star-blasts-u2\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Daily Star: Eighties Pop Star Blasts U2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.ie\/eighties-pop-star-blasts-u2-for-manipulating-fans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/thestar.ie\/eighties-pop-star-blasts-u2-for-manipulating-fans\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22987 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"irishds15a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/irishds15a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a>It appears the <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.ie\/eighties-pop-star-blasts-u2-for-manipulating-fans\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Irish Daily Star<\/strong><\/a> have taken a quote from Toyah&#8217;s <em>Tracks Of My Years<\/em> &#8211; which aired all last week on BBC Radio Two &#8211; and blown it out of proportion to create a news story &#8211; Here it is anyway&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eighties pop star blasts U2 for \u2018manipulating fans\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eighties pop star Toyah Willcox (57) has blasted U2 \u2014 claiming the Dublin band are using social media to manipulate fans in a bid to keep their career going.<\/p>\n<p>The singer is married to prog rock legend Robert Fripp, best known for being a member of King Crimson and releasing a series of albums with former U2 producer Brian Eno.<\/p>\n<p>Willcox made the comments on BBC Radio 2 when, ironically, she selected the band\u2019s 1987 hit Where The Streets Have No Name, as one of her all-time favourite songs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat fascinates me about U2 is the curve of their career. I love all their early stuff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I worked with Steve Lillywhite, he produced an album I did called Changeling, which has been cited as the beginning of the Goth movement,\u201d said Toyah whose 80s hits include I Want To Be Free, It\u2019s A Mystery and Thunder In The Mountains.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at the <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.ie\/eighties-pop-star-blasts-u2-for-manipulating-fans\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Irish Daily Star<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22994\" alt=\"irishds15b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/irishds15b.jpg\" width=\"595\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/irishds15b.jpg 595w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/irishds15b-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears the Irish Daily Star have taken a quote from Toyah&#8217;s Tracks Of My Years &#8211; which aired all last week on BBC Radio Two &#8211; and blown it out of proportion to create a news story &#8211; Here it is anyway&#8230; Eighties pop star blasts U2 for \u2018manipulating fans\u2019 Eighties pop star Toyah [&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":[1352,1241,244],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22986"}],"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=22986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22996,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22986\/revisions\/22996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}