{"id":34734,"date":"2020-10-09T12:46:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T11:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/?p=34734"},"modified":"2020-10-09T12:46:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T11:46:31","slug":"inews-toyah-willcox-ive-trademarked-my-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/inews-toyah-willcox-ive-trademarked-my-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Inews: Toyah Willcox: &#8216;I&#8217;ve Trademarked My Name&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/culture\/music\/toyah-willcox-interview-copywrite-first-name-680171\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/culture\/music\/toyah-willcox-interview-copywrite-first-name-680171 noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-34735 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/inews20a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><strong>Toyah Willcox: \u2018You can\u2019t copy me, I\u2019ve trademarked my name\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Toyah Willcox, a National Album Day 80s ambassador, has copywritten her name to stop copycat artists from emerging<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI gave girls the right to believe in themselves. I was getting 10,000 letters a week, most of them starting with \u2018I\u2019ve just been expelled from school for dyeing my hair pink,\u2019\u201d reflects Toyah Willcox, the singer and actress whose electric hair and rebellious anthems lit up the charts in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>A Top of the Pops fixture with hits like It\u2019s A Mystery, I Want To Be Free and Thunder In The Mountains, accompanied by a video of Toyah thundering across a barren landscape on a chariot, the empowered image portrayed by the Birmingham-born singer directly inspired Shirley Manson and other singers who adapted her punk style.<\/p>\n<p>The only pop star to have acted opposite Laurence Olivier and appeared in two films directed by arthouse auteur Derek Jarman, before going on to narrate the BBC\u2019s Teletubbies, Toyah, 62, has now trademarked herself as a one-word \u201cbrand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/culture\/music\/toyah-willcox-interview-copywrite-first-name-680171\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>inews.co.uk<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyah Willcox: \u2018You can\u2019t copy me, I\u2019ve trademarked my name\u2019 Toyah Willcox, a National Album Day 80s ambassador, has copywritten her name to stop copycat artists from emerging \u201cI gave girls the right to believe in themselves. I was getting 10,000 letters a week, most of them starting with \u2018I\u2019ve just been expelled from school [&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":[2580,2544],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34734"}],"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=34734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34736,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34734\/revisions\/34736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}