{"id":31664,"date":"2019-07-16T09:26:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T08:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=31664"},"modified":"2019-07-16T09:26:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T08:26:53","slug":"you-magazine-where-were-you-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/you-magazine-where-were-you-when\/","title":{"rendered":"You Magazine: Where Were You When"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.you.co.uk\/ziggy-stardust-made-tv-debut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.you.co.uk\/ziggy-stardust-made-tv-debut\/ noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-31665 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/youmag19a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><strong>Where Were You When: Ziggy Stardust made his TV debut<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>David Bowie\u2019s performance of \u2018Starman\u2019 was out of this world, recalls singer Toyah Willcox.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was born in Birmingham in 1958. My life was quite conventional by today\u2019s standards: I went to an all-girls school, ate with my family twice a day at a dining table and wasn\u2019t allowed to speak unless spoken to. Men led the households and were affectionately known as \u2018blokes\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Then the singer Marc Bolan came along with T Rex in 1970, strutting his stuff to \u2018Ride a White Swan\u2019. He was clearly in touch with his feminine side but was very palatable to look at. While my brother scoffed at Bolan\u2019s satin trousers, I sneaked off from school to see him on stage \u2013 and fell in love with rock \u2019n\u2019 roll.<\/p>\n<p>My adolescence was completely normal until an afternoon in June 1972, when I was 14. After coming back from school, I turned on the TV to see who was singing on Lift Off With Ayshea, a music show on ITV. I was expecting Slade, Bolan, Dana, maybe Val Doonican \u2013 but instead, there was David Bowie singing \u2018Starman\u2019, in his television debut as Ziggy Stardust. It derailed me completely.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.you.co.uk\/ziggy-stardust-made-tv-debut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>You Magazine<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where Were You When: Ziggy Stardust made his TV debut David Bowie\u2019s performance of \u2018Starman\u2019 was out of this world, recalls singer Toyah Willcox. I was born in Birmingham in 1958. My life was quite conventional by today\u2019s standards: I went to an all-girls school, ate with my family twice a day at a dining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,27],"tags":[200,2237,2236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31664"}],"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=31664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31666,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31664\/revisions\/31666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}