{"id":38700,"date":"2022-09-12T22:59:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T21:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/?p=38700"},"modified":"2022-09-16T03:11:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T02:11:51","slug":"the-guardian-toyah-nick-tauber-talk-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-guardian-toyah-nick-tauber-talk-anthem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian: Toyah & Nick Tauber Talk ‘It’s A Mystery’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Toyah and, Anthem<\/em> – and many other Toyah releases during the Safari Records years – producer, Nick Tauber are interviewed in The Guardian<\/strong><\/a> today, discussing It’s A Mystery<\/em>, from the Four From Toyah<\/em> EP and the, just reissued in deluxe formats, iconic\/legendary\/magnificent 1981 album, Anthem<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Toyah on It\u2019s a Mystery: \u2018I told Princess Margaret I was a punk rocker. She said \u201cHow ridiculous\u201d\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018There was a vinyl shortage when it was released. Old records had to be sent to the factory to be melted down and pressed. But soon it was selling 75,000 copies a day\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

I was a cult punk singer playing sweaty little clubs and getting covered in so much gob that dry cleaners would go: \u201cYeuch! We\u2019re not touching that!\u201d Then a brilliant PR woman called Judy Totton turned everything around. She put me in every parish magazine in the country that would talk to me. I soon had all these fans who said they discovered me because their parents or grandparents had told them about this punk rocker.<\/p>\n

I was making singles that were eight minutes long with reams of lyrics and had never had a hit. When Safari Records played my 1980 single Ieya on rotation in their office, a man apparently appeared at their door with a knife and said: \u201cIf you play that song again, I\u2019ll kill you!\u201d I started working with a new producer, Nick Tauber, who said I needed to simplify the message. He was completely right.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Continue reading at The Guardian<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toyah and, Anthem – and many other Toyah releases during the Safari Records years – producer, Nick Tauber are interviewed in The Guardian today, discussing It’s A Mystery, from the Four From Toyah EP and the, just reissued in deluxe formats, iconic\/legendary\/magnificent 1981 album, Anthem. Toyah on It\u2019s a Mystery: \u2018I told Princess Margaret I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62,441,5,591,27],"tags":[2993,489],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38700"}],"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=38700"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38721,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38700\/revisions\/38721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}