{"id":42502,"date":"2025-05-08T17:25:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T16:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=42502"},"modified":"2025-05-08T17:25:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T16:25:53","slug":"classic-rock-prog-magazine-toyah-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/classic-rock-prog-magazine-toyah-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Rock\/Prog Magazine: Toyah Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/toyah-willcox-prog-credentials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/toyah-willcox-prog-credentials noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-42503 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/prog25a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><em>Classic Rock\/Prog Magazine<\/em> has, this week, re-published their great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/toyah-willcox-prog-credentials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>2020 interview<\/strong><\/a> with Toyah. She talks Robert Fripp, Toyah &amp; The Humans, Bill Rieflin, her music influences, career and more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI\u2019ve heard Robert Fripp say no to everybody. David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, you name it, he always has an excuse not to play\u2026 He\u2019s a wonderful husband but professionally it\u2019s done me no favours\u201d: Toyah Willcox is more than just Mrs King Crimson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From post-punk icon and award-winning female solo artist to becoming regarded as just the prog mastermind\u2019s wife, her rebellious creative energy is fired by Roxy Music, Devo, The Tubes and all things off the wall<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Toyah Willcox began her career as an actor in Quadrophenia and Quatermass, and as a post-punk in the 80s declared she wanted to be free. In the 21st century she teamed up with the late Bill Rieflin, Markus Reuter and her husband Robert Fripp, and was even In The Court Of The Crimson Queen. In 2020 \u2013 just as Toyyah And Robert\u2019s Sunday Lunch presented the pair in a new, light-hearted light \u2013 we asked the question: how prog is she?<\/p>\n<p>Most people think they know Toyah Willcox. She\u2019s rooted in popular perception as the rebel queen of 80s new wave, responsible for mega-hits like It\u2019s A Mystery, I Want To Be Free and Thunder In The Mountains. But there\u2019s a whole other, less-celebrated side to her \u2013 the edgy adventurer, surveying the worlds of improv, art rock and experimental music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always needed to walk away from the predictable,\u201d she tells Prog. \u201cI love doing the 80s festivals and the touring shows, and my audience turns up in their thousands, which I\u2019m so grateful for. But there\u2019s also a part of me that is very off-the-wall. And I need to feed that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/toyah-willcox-prog-credentials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Classic Rock\/Prog Magazine<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classic Rock\/Prog Magazine has, this week, re-published their great 2020 interview with Toyah. She talks Robert Fripp, Toyah &amp; The Humans, Bill Rieflin, her music influences, career and more. \u201cI\u2019ve heard Robert Fripp say no to everybody. David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, you name it, he always has an excuse not to play\u2026 He\u2019s a wonderful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,145,27],"tags":[2831,998],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42502"}],"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=42502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42504,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42502\/revisions\/42504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}