{"id":24880,"date":"2016-01-24T15:49:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T15:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=24880"},"modified":"2016-01-29T19:55:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T19:55:02","slug":"toyah-on-tv-top-of-the-pops-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/toyah-on-tv-top-of-the-pops-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyah on TV: Top Of The Pops: 1981"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00704hg\/broadcasts\/upcoming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00704hg\/broadcasts\/upcoming\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24882 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"totp1981a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/totp1981a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a>Toyah&#8217;s amazing very first appearance on <em>Top Of The Pops<\/em>, from February 1981, re-airs 35 years &#8220;almost&#8221; to the day it was first broadcast on BBC4 early next month&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top Of The Pops: 1981: BBC4:<br \/>\nThu 4th Feb: 7.30\/11.30pm|Sun 7th Feb: 1.45am<\/strong><br \/>\nMike Read introduces the pop programme, featuring Duran Duran, Shakin Stevens, Phil Collins, the Who, Adam and the Ants, Toyah, Motorhead and Girlschool, Joe Dolce, Talking Heads and the Teardrop Explodes, and a dance performance from Legs and Co.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Look out for further retro Toyah on <em>Top Of The Pops<\/em> appearances this year on BBC4 &#8211; In 1981 Toyah guested in the <em>Top Of The Pops<\/em> studio six times, performing &#8216;It&#8217;s A Mystery&#8217; (three times), &#8216;I Want To Be Free&#8217;, &#8216;Thunder In The Mountains&#8217; and &#8216;Good Morning Universe&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyah&#8217;s amazing very first appearance on Top Of The Pops, from February 1981, re-airs 35 years &#8220;almost&#8221; to the day it was first broadcast on BBC4 early next month&#8230; Top Of The Pops: 1981: BBC4: Thu 4th Feb: 7.30\/11.30pm|Sun 7th Feb: 1.45am Mike Read introduces the pop programme, featuring Duran Duran, Shakin Stevens, Phil Collins, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,1502],"tags":[341,208],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24880"}],"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=24880"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24925,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24880\/revisions\/24925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}