{"id":42812,"date":"2025-09-03T05:26:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T04:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=42812"},"modified":"2025-09-03T05:26:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T04:26:38","slug":"the-sunday-post-toyah-on-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-sunday-post-toyah-on-50-years\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sunday Post: Toyah On 50 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaypost.com\/fp\/its-no-mystery-how-toyah-willcox-is-still-going-strong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.sundaypost.com\/fp\/its-no-mystery-how-toyah-willcox-is-still-going-strong\/ noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-42813 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/sundaypost25a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a>A new interview with Toyah, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaypost.com\/fp\/its-no-mystery-how-toyah-willcox-is-still-going-strong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Sunday Post<\/strong><\/a>. This was also included in P.S. magazine, with Toyah on the cover.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Toyah Willcox on the 50 years of hard graft that have kept her at the top of her game<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Wednesday lunchtime and I am telling Toyah Willcox my own favourite Toyah story.<\/p>\n<p>I remember going to see you as part of a 1980s revival night in Glasgow, alongside Belinda Carlisle, Go West and various members of Spandau Ballet, I say. This must have been back in the late 1990s, early 2000s. I\u2019m a bit hazy on the date, I admit.<\/p>\n<p>But Toyah\u2019s not. \u201c2002,\u201d she interrupts emphatically.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, right. Anyway, you came bounding on to the stage and exclaimed: \u201cGlasgow, I\u2019ve come for your men!\u201d And a woman in the crowd shouted back: \u201cTake them! Take them!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember it happening!\u201d Toyah tells me gleefully over Zoom.<\/p>\n<p>Speak to the singer, actor and presenter and it\u2019s quickly clear that she remembers everything. Dates, chart positions, people. Her memory is a Google search engine containing the records of nearly 50 years in showbiz. And there\u2019s a lot to remember.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaypost.com\/fp\/its-no-mystery-how-toyah-willcox-is-still-going-strong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Sunday Post<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new interview with Toyah, from The Sunday Post. This was also included in P.S. magazine, with Toyah on the cover. Toyah Willcox on the 50 years of hard graft that have kept her at the top of her game It\u2019s Wednesday lunchtime and I am telling Toyah Willcox my own favourite Toyah story. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,51,145,27],"tags":[1615],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42812"}],"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=42812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42814,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42812\/revisions\/42814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}