{"id":40762,"date":"2023-12-23T18:47:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T18:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=40762"},"modified":"2023-12-24T11:52:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T11:52:41","slug":"christmas-countdown-2023-day-19-i-believe-in-father-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/christmas-countdown-2023-day-19-i-believe-in-father-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Countdown 2023: Day 19: I Believe In Father Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Christmas 1982<\/span><\/strong>, The build up\/countdown to Christmas wouldn\u2019t be complete at Dreamscape without this\u2026 I think I\u2019ve mentioned<\/span> I Believe in Father Christmas<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/em> almost every December for the last 24 years, so here we go again\u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n

Toyah covers the Greg Lake 1975 classic (which I didn\u2019t realise also features Robert Fripp until Toyah mentioned it a few years ago on Toyah\u2019s Christmas at the Zoo<\/em>) for ITV\u2019s Pop Goes Christmas<\/em> in 1982. The programme aired on Boxing Day and also featured Musical Youth, Mari Wilson, Dexy’s Midnight Runners, The Nolans, Toto Coelo, The Mighty Wah! and Shakin’ Stevens.<\/span><\/p>\n

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According to an info board posted online, Pop Goes Christmas<\/em> was only recorded less than a fortnight before it aired. Not sure if this is completely accurate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Toyah sounds glorious, looks amazing (wearing her Brave New World\/The Changeling<\/em> black contacts) and Keith Hale and Joel Bogen are having a right old festive time in the forest of lit up trees during the recording, which was introduced by David Essex. Bravo! <\/span><\/p>\n

NB<\/strong>: Official Toyah posted today at Facebook and Instagram: Toyah\u2019s 1982 version of the Greg Lake classic I Believe In Father Christmas<\/em> is the perfect soundtrack for Christmas Eve Eve. Click below to stream at Spotify.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Christmas 1982, The build up\/countdown to Christmas wouldn\u2019t be complete at Dreamscape without this\u2026 I think I\u2019ve mentioned I Believe in Father Christmas almost every December for the last 24 years, so here we go again\u2026 Toyah covers the Greg Lake 1975 classic (which I didn\u2019t realise also features Robert Fripp until Toyah mentioned it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3162],"tags":[3172,473,474],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40762"}],"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=40762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40779,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40762\/revisions\/40779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}