{"id":42559,"date":"2025-05-26T14:41:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T13:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=42559"},"modified":"2025-05-29T18:48:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T17:48:32","slug":"toyah-on-tv-totp-1981-i-want-to-be-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/toyah-on-tv-totp-1981-i-want-to-be-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyah On TV: TOTP 1981: I Want To Be Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another chance to see a retro edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b073b5wt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Top Of The Pops<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, airing in early June on BBC Four. This edition was originally shown &#8211; almost exactly 44 years ago &#8211; on Thursday 4th June 1981 and includes a play of the, Godley &amp; Creme, \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bCHEO477u44\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>promo video<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0<em>I Want To Be Free<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top Of The Pops: 1981: BBC Four: Friday 6th June: 7.30pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Top Of The Pops: 1981: BBC Four: Saturday 7th June: 2.05am<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>04\/06\/1981<\/em>. Richard Skinner introduces the pop programme, featuring Siouxsie and the Banshees (Spellbound), Shakin\u2019 Stevens (You Drive Me Crazy), Kate Robbins (More Than in Love), Squeeze (Is That Love?), Imagination (Body Talk), The Jam (Funeral Pyre), Michael Jackson (One Day in Your Life), Toyah (I Want To Be Free), Phil Collins (If Leaving Me Is Easy), Adam &amp; The Ants (Stand &amp; Deliver), Odyssey (Going Back To My Roots).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b073b5wt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b073b5wt noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25229\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/totp1981h.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/totp1981h.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/totp1981h-300x115.jpg 300w\" alt=\"totp1981h\" width=\"600\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Toyah\u2019s next appearance on\u00a0<em>Top Of The Pops<\/em>\u00a0after this was on 1st October 1981, with the band performing\u00a0<em>Thunder In The Mountains<\/em>\u00a0in the studio. The\u00a0<em>TITM<\/em>\u00a0promo video was also shown on 15th October. On 26th November the band performed\u00a0<em>Good Morning Universe<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another chance to see a retro edition of Top Of The Pops, airing in early June on BBC Four. This edition was originally shown &#8211; almost exactly 44 years ago &#8211; on Thursday 4th June 1981 and includes a play of the, Godley &amp; Creme, \u00a0promo video\u00a0for\u00a0I Want To Be Free. Top Of The Pops: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139,3297],"tags":[341,208],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42559"}],"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=42559"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42564,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42559\/revisions\/42564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}