{"id":26990,"date":"2016-12-14T00:22:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T00:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=26990"},"modified":"2016-12-14T07:03:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T07:03:22","slug":"the-new-vinyl-villain-four-indie-1s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-new-vinyl-villain-four-indie-1s\/","title":{"rendered":"The (New) Vinyl Villain: Four Indie #1&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenewvinylvillain.wordpress.com\/2016\/12\/14\/who-had-four-1s-in-the-1981-indie-singles-chart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/thenewvinylvillain.wordpress.com\/2016\/12\/14\/who-had-four-1s-in-the-1981-indie-singles-chart\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26991 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"newvv16a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/newvv16a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><strong>Who Had Four #1&#8217;s In The 1981 Indie Singles Chart?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Treat yourself to a chocolate biscuit if you got that one correct. If you don\u2019t have such a thing close to hand then go buy one from a nearby shop and I\u2019ll reimburse you as long as you send me the receipt.<\/p>\n<p>Toyah, contrary to popular belief, was not just a solo project for Ms Willcox. Back in 1977, three friends had spent a brief period playing under the name Ninth Illusion, without recording any music. In the beginning of 1978 they added some more musicians and settled on a new, taking it from their female vocalist who was also just beginning to forge a name for herself as an actress.<\/p>\n<p>By mid-1979 the band had signed to the London-based Safari Records and over the next 18 months here would be a handful of singles and LPs that didn\u2019t really do all that much. By late 1980, there had been further line-up changes with only Joel Bogen remaining from the earlier line-ups and the decision was taken to focus on a more pop-orientated sound.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/thenewvinylvillain.wordpress.com\/2016\/12\/14\/who-had-four-1s-in-the-1981-indie-singles-chart\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The (New) Vinyl Villain<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who Had Four #1&#8217;s In The 1981 Indie Singles Chart? Treat yourself to a chocolate biscuit if you got that one correct. If you don\u2019t have such a thing close to hand then go buy one from a nearby shop and I\u2019ll reimburse you as long as you send me the receipt. Toyah, contrary to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139,591,27,88],"tags":[1694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26990"}],"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=26990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26992,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26990\/revisions\/26992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}