{"id":30500,"date":"2019-01-29T16:56:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T16:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=30500"},"modified":"2019-01-29T17:04:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T17:04:50","slug":"toyah-music-40-bird-in-flighttribal-look-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/toyah-music-40-bird-in-flighttribal-look-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyah Music 40: Bird in Flight\/Tribal Look (1980)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/tag\/toyah-1979-2019\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/tag\/toyah-1979-2019\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-30504\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"toyah40ane\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/toyah40ane.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a>He runs to the water&#8217;s edge, To feel the sea, To smell the air, To feel he&#8217;s free, He does not really need to see&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Toyah&#8217;s third single, and first new music of the Eighties, was the double A-Side, <em>Bird in Flight\/Tribal Look<\/em>. The single was released in February 1980 on Safari Records. <em>Bird in Flight<\/em> is a\u00a0brave, raw and ambitious\u00a0classic from Toyah&#8217;s discography and has stood the test of time well, still sounding as good today as upon its release 39 years ago! Though Toyah has said she now finds the lyric &#8220;excruciatingly wrong&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p><em>Bird in Flight\/Tribal Look<\/em> were both written by Willcox\/Francis\/Bogen\/Bush\/Bray.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30501 aligncenter\" alt=\"toyah40and\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/toyah40and.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/toyah40and.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/toyah40and-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He runs to the water&#8217;s edge, To feel the sea, To smell the air, To feel he&#8217;s free, He does not really need to see&#8230; Toyah&#8217;s third single, and first new music of the Eighties, was the double A-Side, Bird in Flight\/Tribal Look. The single was released in February 1980 on Safari Records. Bird in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[323,87],"tags":[809,2053,2068],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30500"}],"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=30500"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30505,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30500\/revisions\/30505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}