{"id":41359,"date":"2024-06-21T17:21:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T16:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=41359"},"modified":"2024-06-21T17:21:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T16:21:50","slug":"louder-toyah-summoned-to-st-james-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/louder-toyah-summoned-to-st-james-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Louder: Toyah Summoned To St James&#8217; Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/news\/the-queen-mother-princess-margaret-punk-rock-toyah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/news\/the-queen-mother-princess-margaret-punk-rock-toyah noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-41361 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/louder24b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"311\" \/><\/a><strong>\u201cI was summoned to have tea with the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret. We talked about the philosophy of punk.\u201d In 1980, when Britain&#8217;s royal family wanted \u201cto see what a punk rocker looks like\u201d they invited Toyah Willcox to St James\u2019s Palace<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Toyah recalls the day she talked punk rock with royalty<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 1977, punk rock gatecrashed into the mainstream consciousness in Britain when the Sex Pistols&#8217; second single, God Save The Queen, entered the UK charts at number 2 during the week of the official observation of Queen Elizabeth II&#8217;s Silver Jubilee: it&#8217;s widely believed that the single was actually the UK&#8217;s highest-selling single that week, but the official chart stats were deliberately &#8216;adjusted&#8217; to ensure that the nation&#8217;s most infamous punk band were kept from reaching number one.<\/p>\n<p>As controversial as the song was, however, it seems that it didn&#8217;t necessarily alarm the monarchy, for three years later, punk starlet Toyah Willcox was summoned to one of London&#8217;s royal palaces so that Queen Elizabeth&#8217;s mother and sister could see at close quarters \u201cwhat a punk rocker looks like,\u201d according to a new [paywalled] interview the singer has given to The Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/news\/the-queen-mother-princess-margaret-punk-rock-toyah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Louder<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI was summoned to have tea with the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret. We talked about the philosophy of punk.\u201d In 1980, when Britain&#8217;s royal family wanted \u201cto see what a punk rocker looks like\u201d they invited Toyah Willcox to St James\u2019s Palace Toyah recalls the day she talked punk rock with royalty In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[2425],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41359"}],"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=41359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41362,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41359\/revisions\/41362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}