{"id":41910,"date":"2024-12-06T00:50:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T00:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=41910"},"modified":"2024-12-06T00:50:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T00:50:55","slug":"christmas-2024-day-6-i-believe-in-father-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/christmas-2024-day-6-i-believe-in-father-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2024: Day 6: I Believe In Father Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/category\/christmas-2024\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/category\/christmas-2024\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-40739 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/merrychristmas23a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"81\" \/><\/a><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Christmas 2024, <\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\">and today Toyah&#8217;s version of, the Greg Lake festive classic, <em>I Believe In Father Christmas<\/em> is released as a standalone single for the very first time. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">This is the third in an ongoing series of Toyah 10&#8243; vinyl single\/EP releases, following <em>Brave New World<\/em> in 2023 and <em>Rebel Run<\/em> in September of this year. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Originally recorded in 1982 for inclusion on the ITV special <em>Pop Goes Christmas<\/em>, the track features Toyah Willcox (vocals), Joel Bogen (acoustic guitar) and Keith Hale (keyboards). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The new 10&#8243; single is pressed on snow white vinyl and is accompanied with a colour Toyah Christmas Card in a throwback to the annual Christmas cards posted out to members of The Intergalactic Ranchhouse, the official Toyah fan club ran by Safari Records.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toyahwillcox.com\/releases\/i-believe-in-father-christmas-ep\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/toyahwillcox.com\/releases\/i-believe-in-father-christmas-ep\/ noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41911 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ibifc24d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ibifc24d.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ibifc24d-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas 2024, and today Toyah&#8217;s version of, the Greg Lake festive classic, I Believe In Father Christmas is released as a standalone single for the very first time. This is the third in an ongoing series of Toyah 10&#8243; vinyl single\/EP releases, following Brave New World in 2023 and Rebel Run in September of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3285],"tags":[1686,473,3275],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41910"}],"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=41910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41913,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41910\/revisions\/41913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}