{"id":40586,"date":"2023-12-11T15:50:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T15:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=40586"},"modified":"2023-12-11T17:55:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T17:55:54","slug":"christmas-countdown-2023-day-7-top-of-the-pops-be-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/christmas-countdown-2023-day-7-top-of-the-pops-be-proud\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Countdown 2023: Day 7: Top Of The Pops\/Be Proud"},"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 2016<span style=\"color: #339966;\">, <\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">and BBC Four aired a repeat <em>Top Of The Pops<\/em>, which was originally broadcast in October 1982 on BBC1, which included Toyah&#8217;s studio performance of the single, <em>Be Proud Be Loud (Be Heard)<\/em>. The third single of that year, and a new recording, following only one single &#8211; Brave New World &#8211; being released from <em>The Changeling<\/em>, Toyah&#8217;s studio album of 1982, and a re-recording of, previously released single, <em>Ieya<\/em>, renamed, <em>Ieya &#8217;82.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Toyah&#8217;s original <em>TOTP<\/em> performance &#8211; first broadcast some 41 years ago &#8211; is still an iconic, colourful, classic and completely unforgettable appearance, and has the message of <em>Be Proud Be Loud (Be Heard)<\/em> ever been more relevant than in 2023? A song way ahead of its time! On a slightly more superficial note (but still important), Toyah&#8217;s imagery for the single&#8217;s release was, still is, and always will be, utterly stunning and creative.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">While the retro <em>TOTP<\/em> aired, BBC Four also tweeted: &#8220;<em>In 1982, Toyah was so famous, she even had a lion-tailed macaque named after her on Animal Magic, and appeared on the show to meet it<\/em>&#8220;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/christmas-countdown-2022\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/christmas-countdown-2022\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26901 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/beproud16a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/beproud16a.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/beproud16a-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas 2016, and BBC Four aired a repeat Top Of The Pops, which was originally broadcast in October 1982 on BBC1, which included Toyah&#8217;s studio performance of the single, Be Proud Be Loud (Be Heard). The third single of that year, and a new recording, following only one single &#8211; Brave New World &#8211; being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,3162,87],"tags":[3172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40586"}],"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=40586"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40602,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40586\/revisions\/40602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}