{"id":43192,"date":"2025-12-05T16:51:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=43192"},"modified":"2025-12-10T18:06:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:06:28","slug":"christmas-2025-day-5-i-believe-in-father-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/christmas-2025-day-5-i-believe-in-father-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2025: Day 5: I Believe In Father Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/category\/christmas-countdown-2025\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/category\/christmas-countdown-2025\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-43254 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/christmas25c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a>Christmas 1982<\/span><\/strong>, The build up\/countdown to Christmas wouldn\u2019t be complete at Dreamscape without this\u2026 I think I\u2019ve mentioned<\/span> <em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rN4S6Tjpbxc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I Believe in Father Christmas<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/em> <span style=\"color: #008000;\">almost every December for the last 25 years, so here we go again\u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Toyah covers the Greg Lake 1975 classic (which I didn\u2019t realise also features Robert Fripp until Toyah mentioned it a few years ago on <em>Toyah\u2019s Christmas at the Zoo<\/em>) for ITV\u2019s <em>Pop Goes Christmas<\/em> in 1982. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The programme aired on Boxing Day and also featured Musical Youth, Mari Wilson, Dexy&#8217;s Midnight Runners, The Nolans, Toto Coelo, The Mighty Wah! and Shakin&#8217; Stevens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">According to an info board posted online, <em>Pop Goes Christmas<\/em> was only recorded less than a fortnight before it aired. Not sure if this is completely accurate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Toyah sounds glorious, looks amazing (wearing her <em>Brave New World\/The Changeling<\/em> black contacts) and Keith Hale and Joel Bogen are having a right old festive time in the forest of lit up trees during the recording, which was introduced by David Essex. Bravo!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rN4S6Tjpbxc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rN4S6Tjpbxc noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-39283 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ibifc22a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ibifc22a.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ibifc22a-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas 1982, The build up\/countdown to Christmas wouldn\u2019t be complete at Dreamscape without this\u2026 I think I\u2019ve mentioned I Believe in Father Christmas almost every December for the last 25 years, so here we go again\u2026 Toyah covers the Greg Lake 1975 classic (which I didn\u2019t realise also features Robert Fripp until Toyah mentioned it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3428,3430],"tags":[473,474],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43192"}],"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=43192"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43271,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43192\/revisions\/43271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}