{"id":40553,"date":"2023-12-08T00:39:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T00:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=40553"},"modified":"2023-12-08T03:48:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T03:48:08","slug":"christmas-2023-countdown-a-life-changing-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/christmas-2023-countdown-a-life-changing-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2023 Countdown: Day 4: Starman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/christmas-countdown-2023\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/christmas-countdown-2023\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-20869 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/christmas14b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a>Christmas 2012, <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Toyah guested on <em>Steve Lamacq\u2019s Rock College<\/em> on BBC Radio 2 as &#8216;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Guest Lecturer&#8217;, discussing how absolutely life-changing first discovering David Bowie was for her when growing up in Birmingham in the early 1970s. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Toyah talks about the legendary album <em>The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars<\/em>, and of first glimpsing, and hearing, Bowie performing <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I7vSJSL7Tjo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>Starman<\/em> on the music programme <em>Lift Off With Ayshea<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">&#8220;This was a moment that changed my life forever&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">This was such a great audio clip\/opinion piece by Toyah it would&#8217;ve been a real shame to just let it disappear after its week on iPlayer back in 2012\u2026 so here it is! <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Click below to listen<\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/dloads\/toyahrockcollege.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/dloads\/toyahrockcollege.mp3 noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9999 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/dbzs12a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/dbzs12a.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/dbzs12a-300x105.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas 2012, Toyah guested on Steve Lamacq\u2019s Rock College on BBC Radio 2 as &#8216;Guest Lecturer&#8217;, discussing how absolutely life-changing first discovering David Bowie was for her when growing up in Birmingham in the early 1970s. Toyah talks about the legendary album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3162,5,45],"tags":[458,3172,200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40553"}],"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=40553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40559,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40553\/revisions\/40559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}