{"id":23804,"date":"2015-09-17T16:32:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T15:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=23804"},"modified":"2015-09-17T16:32:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T15:32:52","slug":"the-independent-the-peoples-history-of-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-independent-the-peoples-history-of-pop\/","title":{"rendered":"The Independent: The People&#8217;s History of Pop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/media\/tv-radio\/bbc-asks-viewers-to-share-their-musical-memorabilia-to-tell-the-peoples-history-of-pop-10504293.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/media\/tv-radio\/bbc-asks-viewers-to-share-their-musical-memorabilia-to-tell-the-peoples-history-of-pop-10504293.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23805 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"independent15a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/independent15a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"55\" \/><\/a><strong>BBC asks viewers to share their musical memorabilia to tell &#8216;The People&#8217;s History of Pop&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do you treasure a ticket stub from David Bowie at Aylesbury Friars? Is there a glow-stick from an illegal rave in your attic? Does your teenage diary list every band you ever saw in painstaking detail?<\/p>\n<p>Now the BBC is asking viewers to share their most cherished musical possessions to help tell The People\u2019s History of Pop through a unique crowdsourcing appeal. An online archive is being created for a new BBC4 series which will tell the story of British rock &amp; pop music from the 1950s to the noughties &#8211; but without the traditional narrative from chin-stroking \u201cexperts\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Craig Astley uploaded a picture of himself, then aged 4, with his first pop idol, the punk singer Toyah after a concert in Newcastle. \u201cSixteen years later and I received a phone call from Toyah herself if I would be interested in running her website,\u201d writes Astley, who now manages the singer\u2019s archive. \u201cPop dreams can come true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/media\/tv-radio\/bbc-asks-viewers-to-share-their-musical-memorabilia-to-tell-the-peoples-history-of-pop-10504293.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Independent<\/strong><\/a>. View further info <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/tag\/peoples-history-of-pop\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC asks viewers to share their musical memorabilia to tell &#8216;The People&#8217;s History of Pop&#8217; Do you treasure a ticket stub from David Bowie at Aylesbury Friars? Is there a glow-stick from an illegal rave in your attic? Does your teenage diary list every band you ever saw in painstaking detail? Now the BBC is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,27,7],"tags":[313,1363,479],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23804"}],"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=23804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23806,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23804\/revisions\/23806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}