{"id":40688,"date":"2023-12-19T22:27:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T22:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=40688"},"modified":"2023-12-20T00:35:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T00:35:31","slug":"christmas-countdown-2023-day-15-a-smash-hits-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/christmas-countdown-2023-day-15-a-smash-hits-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Countdown 2023: Day 15: A Smash Hits Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><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<\/strong>, <span style=\"color: #008000;\">BBC Radio 4 aired <em>Neil Tennant&#8217;s Smash Hits Christmas<\/em> on 20th December &#8211; a real festive pop treat for everyone who grew up in the 1980s. The programme was an interesting look back at the golden years of the UK&#8217;s biggest music magazine of the eighties. Neil recalls the golden days of, the iconic, <em>Smash Hits<\/em> magazine, when he worked as a writer in their Carnaby Street office.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">There were also contributions and memories from founder and legendary magazine maker Nick Logan, editors David Hepworth and Mark Ellen, writers Miranda Sawyer and Sylvia Patterson, and from regular <em>Smash Hits<\/em> cover girl, Toyah., talking about <em>Smash Hits<\/em> in general and her <em>Brave New World<\/em> cover from the Summer of 1982.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N1q_pn6pTWA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N1q_pn6pTWA noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"ntshc12f\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ntshc12f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Neil Tennant had a life as a journalist before he became famous as a Pet Shop Boy. In fact, it was on a <em>Smash Hits<\/em> trip to New York that he had his big breakthrough with the record producer Bobby O. Also included is a rare recording from the 1982 Christmas Flexidisc (a message from the stars) and probably Neil Tennant\u2019s first recording \u2013 the music for a trailer advertising <em>Smash Hits<\/em> stickers. (Producer: Susan Marling. A Just Radio Ltd. production for BBC Radio 4). Click on any of the images in this post to listen to <em>Neil Tennant&#8217;s Smash Hits Christmas<\/em> at You Tube.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N1q_pn6pTWA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N1q_pn6pTWA noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14306 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/shits13d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/shits13d.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/shits13d-300x131.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas 2012, BBC Radio 4 aired Neil Tennant&#8217;s Smash Hits Christmas on 20th December &#8211; a real festive pop treat for everyone who grew up in the 1980s. The programme was an interesting look back at the golden years of the UK&#8217;s biggest music magazine of the eighties. Neil recalls the golden days of, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3162,67],"tags":[3172,477],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40688"}],"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=40688"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40695,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40688\/revisions\/40695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}