{"id":37971,"date":"2022-04-30T22:52:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T21:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/?p=37971"},"modified":"2022-04-30T22:52:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T21:52:49","slug":"birmingham-post-pop-back-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/birmingham-post-pop-back-in-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Post: Pop Back In Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-37972 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/bpost22a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"241\" \/>Toyah was interviewed this week by the <em>Birmingham Post<\/em>, in a joint feature with other 80s musicians. Here are a few quotes from the article.<\/p>\n<p><em>Toyah is part of an all-star Let&#8217;s Rock cast of 80s pop artists. Martin Fry and Mark White of ABC. Pauline Black of The Selector. Electro pop pioneers OMD and Level 42&#8217;s Mark King.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Flame haired singer Toyah Willcox was a<em> Top Of The Pops<\/em> regular through the 1980s<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Top Of The Pops was an event, every time,&#8221; she says. &#8220;It&#8217;s a show I used to watch with my family and to actually be on it was an honour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I worked and I worked and I worked and I worked &#8211; there was no time for celebration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A hit meant more work and more work; the management kept us going 24\/7. The excitement knowing I was at number four in the charts with Four From Toyah\/It&#8217;s A Mystery was immense. That alone was a celebration. I&#8217;d toured five years solidly for that success so, when it came I kept working.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyah was interviewed this week by the Birmingham Post, in a joint feature with other 80s musicians. Here are a few quotes from the article. Toyah is part of an all-star Let&#8217;s Rock cast of 80s pop artists. Martin Fry and Mark White of ABC. Pauline Black of The Selector. Electro pop pioneers OMD and [&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":[596,2517],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37971"}],"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=37971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37983,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37971\/revisions\/37983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}