{"id":26942,"date":"2016-12-12T12:27:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T12:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=26942"},"modified":"2016-12-12T12:27:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T12:27:49","slug":"birmingham-mail-toyah-willcox-awarded-a-star-on-broad-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/birmingham-mail-toyah-willcox-awarded-a-star-on-broad-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Mail: Toyah Willcox Awarded a Star on Broad Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bmail16d\"<\/a>Quadrophenia star and singer Toyah Willcox awarded a star on Broad Street<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Kings Heath born singer and actress was awarded a star on Birmingham\u2019s Walk of Stars in Broad Street.<\/em><\/p>\n

Singer and actress Toyah Willcox was last night Sunday December 11, awarded a star on Birmingham\u2019s Walk of Stars in Broad Street. The 58 year old was awarded the star along with Brum born comedian Don Maclean who appeared in BBC television series Crackerjack with Michael Aspel, Peter Glaze and Jan Hunt in the 1970s.<\/p>\n

The pair were awarded their stars during a special show hosted by Walk of Stars\u2019 chairman Jasper Carrott at the Birmingham Rep Theatre. Toyah who was born in Kings Heath, shot to fame playing Monkey in the 1979 cult classic Quadrophenia. She also had a successful music career spanning 30 years including hits \u201cIt\u2019s a Mystery\u201d, \u201cThunder in the Mountains\u201d and \u201cI Want to Be Free\u201d as well as 20 top selling albums. Toyah studied at Old Rep Drama School in Birmingham.<\/p>\n

Looking back at her time there she said: \u201cAlready by then I was known in Birmingham for being the oddball that walked around with dyed hair. And you\u2019ve got to remember that this is pre-punk, this was about 1973\u201374\u201d At the event Toyah said \u201c I\u2019m so proud and so excited. All my friends,family and fans are here. I feel Birmingham has done me proud today. I\u2019m very grateful thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Continue reading at the Birmingham Mail<\/strong><\/a>. View a great collection of photos from the Birmingham Walk of Stars event at Flickr<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0(Photo \u00a9 Birmingham Mail)<\/p>\n

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Quadrophenia star and singer Toyah Willcox awarded a star on Broad Street The Kings Heath born singer and actress was awarded a star on Birmingham\u2019s Walk of Stars in Broad Street. Singer and actress Toyah Willcox was last night Sunday December 11, awarded a star on Birmingham\u2019s Walk of Stars in Broad Street. The 58 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,27],"tags":[376,718],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26942"}],"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=26942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26945,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26942\/revisions\/26945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}