{"id":30196,"date":"2018-12-06T23:06:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T23:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=30196"},"modified":"2018-12-06T23:11:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T23:11:07","slug":"dreamscape-advent-calendar-2018-day-6-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/dreamscape-advent-calendar-2018-day-6-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreamscape Advent Calendar 2018: Day 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30153 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"christmas2018d\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/christmas2018d.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"66\" \/><strong>Christmas 2012<\/strong>, BBC Radio\u00a04 aired <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N1q_pn6pTWA\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Neil Tennant\u2019s Smash Hits Christmas<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a> on 20th December. An interesting look back at the golden years of the UK&#8217;s biggest pop magazine of the Eighties. The programme included contributions from Tennant, various Smash Hits\u00a0editors and writers, and Toyah, talking about Smash Hits in general and\u00a0her <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/shits30.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Brave <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">New World<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> cover<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span> from the Summer of 1982.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Neil Tennant had a life as a journalist before he became famous as a Pet Shop Boy. In fact, it was on a Smash Hits trip to New York that he had his big breakthrough with the record producer Bobby O. The half-hour programme isn\u2019t currently available at BBC iPlayer but you can click below to listen to a recording of the programme at\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N1q_pn6pTWA\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">You Tube<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N1q_pn6pTWA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N1q_pn6pTWA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"ntshc12f\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ntshc12f.jpg\" width=\"595\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas 2012, BBC Radio\u00a04 aired Neil Tennant\u2019s Smash Hits Christmas on 20th December. An interesting look back at the golden years of the UK&#8217;s biggest pop magazine of the Eighties. The programme included contributions from Tennant, various Smash Hits\u00a0editors and writers, and Toyah, talking about Smash Hits in general and\u00a0her Brave New World cover from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2002],"tags":[2021,477],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30196"}],"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=30196"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30203,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30196\/revisions\/30203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}