{"id":25227,"date":"2016-03-01T00:23:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T00:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=25227"},"modified":"2016-03-05T08:04:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T08:04:04","slug":"top-of-the-pops-1981-more-i-want-to-be-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/top-of-the-pops-1981-more-i-want-to-be-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Of The Pops: 1981: More I Want To Be Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another retro <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b073b5wt\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Top Of The Pops<\/em><\/strong><\/a> featuring Toyah has just been added to the television schedules, airing later this month on BBC Four. This edition was originally shown on 4th June 1981 and includes a play of the, Godley &amp; Creme, \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bCHEO477u44\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>promo video<\/strong><\/a> for <em>I Want To Be Free<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top Of The Pops: 1981: BBC Four: Friday 11th March: 7.30pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Top Of The Pops: 1981: BBC Four: Saturday 12th March: 0.00am<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Top Of The Pops: 1981: BBC Four: Sunday 13th March: 2.20am<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>04\/06\/1981<\/em>. Richard Skinner introduces the pop programme, featuring Siouxsie and the Banshees (Spellbound), Shakin&#8217; Stevens (You Drive Me Crazy), Kate Robbins (More Than in Love), Squeeze (Is That Love?), Imagination (Body Talk), The Jam (Funeral Pyre), Michael Jackson (One Day in Your Life), Toyah (I Want To Be Free), Phil Collins (If Leaving Me Is Easy), Adam &amp; The Ants (Stand &amp; Deliver), Odyssey (Going Back To My Roots).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b073b5wt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b073b5wt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25229\" alt=\"totp1981h\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/totp1981h.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/totp1981h.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/totp1981h-300x115.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Toyah&#8217;s next appearance on <em>Top Of The Pops<\/em> after this was on 1st October 1981, with the band performing <em>Thunder In The Mountains<\/em> in the studio. The <em>TITM<\/em> promo video was also shown on 15th October. On 26th November the band performed <em>Good Morning Universe<\/em>. All of these will re-air on BBC Four in the coming months. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another retro Top Of The Pops featuring Toyah has just been added to the television schedules, airing later this month on BBC Four. This edition was originally shown on 4th June 1981 and includes a play of the, Godley &amp; Creme, \u00a0promo video for I Want To Be Free. Top Of The Pops: 1981: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139,7,1502],"tags":[362,208],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25227"}],"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=25227"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25268,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25227\/revisions\/25268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}