{"id":33470,"date":"2020-05-10T07:35:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T06:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/?p=33470"},"modified":"2020-06-04T11:21:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T10:21:29","slug":"louder-watch-robert-fripp-and-toyah-perform-heroes-for-ve-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/louder-watch-robert-fripp-and-toyah-perform-heroes-for-ve-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Louder: Watch Robert Fripp and Toyah Perform Heroes for VE Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/news\/watch-robert-fripp-and-toyah-perform-heroes-for-ve-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/news\/watch-robert-fripp-and-toyah-perform-heroes-for-ve-day noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-33472 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/louder20a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><em>The King Crimson guitarist and his wife honour VE heroes with version of the David Bowie song<\/em><\/p>\n<p>King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp and his wife Toyah have released a video of themselves performing a cover of David Bowie&#8217;s Heroes (a song Crimson themselves released back in 2017) to celebrate VE Day.<\/p>\n<p>Fripp&#8217;s Uncle Bill, aka RAF Flight Sergeant Alfie Fripp, and Toyah&#8217;s own relative Beric Wilcox had both been in the armed services, Alfie Fripp even helped in the planning of The Great Escape. Radio 2 even played Bowie&#8217;s original version of Heroes in Fripp&#8217;s honour when he died, which of course featured his nephew on guitar.<\/p>\n<p>Both Fripp and Toyah have been entertaining fans with humorous videos of themselves during lockdown, including the pair dancing and even performing ballet. Most can be seen on Toyah&#8217;s You Tube page.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/news\/watch-robert-fripp-and-toyah-perform-heroes-for-ve-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Louder<\/strong><\/a>. Visit Toyah&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC9rYtOXUyIDQszsdgBzJy5A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>You Tube<\/strong><\/a> channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The King Crimson guitarist and his wife honour VE heroes with version of the David Bowie song King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp and his wife Toyah have released a video of themselves performing a cover of David Bowie&#8217;s Heroes (a song Crimson themselves released back in 2017) to celebrate VE Day. Fripp&#8217;s Uncle Bill, aka [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[2424,2425,2477,2454,2421,2423],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33470"}],"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=33470"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33482,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33470\/revisions\/33482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}