{"id":42915,"date":"2025-09-20T21:50:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T20:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=42915"},"modified":"2025-09-20T22:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:00:03","slug":"toyah-on-tv-top-of-the-pops-1981-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/toyah-on-tv-top-of-the-pops-1981-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyah On TV: Top Of The Pops: 1981"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another chance to catch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b07c3ywt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Top Of The Pops<\/strong><\/em><\/a> with Toyah&#8217;s studio performance of <a href=\"https:\/\/toyahwillcox.com\/releases\/thunder-in-the-mountains\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Thunder In The Mountains<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. This originally aired on BBC One on Thursday 1st October 1981 and wasn&#8217;t repeated by the BBC until almost 35 years later &#8211; on BBC Four in May 2016. This is only the third airing, nine years after that first repeat!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top Of The Pops: 1981: BBC Four: Friday 3rd October: 8pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>01\/10\/81<\/em>. Mike Read introduces the pop programme. Includes appearances from Godley &amp; Creme (Under Your Thumb), Sheena Easton (Just Another Broken Heart), The Teardrop Explodes (Passionate Friend), The Creatures (Mad Eyed Screamer), Ottawan (Hands Up [Give Me Your Heart]), Toyah (Thunder In The Mountains), Bad Manners (Walking In The Sunshine), Altered Images (Happy Birthday), Dollar (Hand Held In Black &amp; White), Adam &amp; The Ants (Prince Charming).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b07c3ywt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b07c3ywt noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sotw12aa.jpg\" alt=\"sotw12aa\" width=\"600\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another chance to catch Top Of The Pops with Toyah&#8217;s studio performance of Thunder In The Mountains. This originally aired on BBC One on Thursday 1st October 1981 and wasn&#8217;t repeated by the BBC until almost 35 years later &#8211; on BBC Four in May 2016. This is only the third airing, nine years after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[88,3297],"tags":[341,208],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42915"}],"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=42915"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42937,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42915\/revisions\/42937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}