{"id":43353,"date":"2025-12-19T14:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=43353"},"modified":"2025-12-19T14:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:06:11","slug":"christmas-2025-day-19-45-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/christmas-2025-day-19-45-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2025: Day 19: 45 Years Ago&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><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><\/span>Christmas 2025<\/strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">, and Official Toyah recalls Christmas 1980&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Broadcast 45 years ago tonight\u2026. The documentary \u2018Toyah\u2019 on ATV<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">ATV decided to profile Toyah in a documentary, directed by filmmaker Graham Moore. This was a significant<br \/>\ncoup for Toyah, securing an hour of prime-time TV as an \u2018up and coming\u2019 recording artist. It was produced by ATV, the Midlands franchise of ITV but networked across the ITV regions on 18 December 1980.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The documentary meant cameras followed Toyah\u2019s weekly activity for several months. This included photo shoots, in-store record signings, television appearances including Straight Talk, rehearsals for Nigel Williams\u2019 controversial play Sugar And Spice and band rehearsals at Toyah\u2019s live-in Battersea warehouse \u2018Mayhem\u2019.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u2022 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/toyahofficial\/posts\/pfbid02RoYY1T8PN7NGZxEfSSxVJHxgQrAVBHm18EcbacB2LanyMAAaYUppDipqxk4d6En8l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">here&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/a> Buy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cherryred.co.uk\/toyah-toyah-toyah-toyah-cddvd-edition?fbclid=IwY2xjawOyNmBleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCckI0M1c4TGUyamxKdHNTc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHjzIFUzEtuhh4KL6wtwGm5BnrKKgVTuL4nPvxVKQxln-2EdiF0U3g1ygK3RX_aem_EuHg3EmL8tUWR4tneVaDbQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Toyah! Toyah! Toyah!<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/toyahofficial\/posts\/pfbid02RoYY1T8PN7NGZxEfSSxVJHxgQrAVBHm18EcbacB2LanyMAAaYUppDipqxk4d6En8l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/toyahofficial\/posts\/pfbid02RoYY1T8PN7NGZxEfSSxVJHxgQrAVBHm18EcbacB2LanyMAAaYUppDipqxk4d6En8l noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-43354 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/offtoyah25b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/offtoyah25b.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/offtoyah25b-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas 2025, and Official Toyah recalls Christmas 1980&#8230; Broadcast 45 years ago tonight\u2026. The documentary \u2018Toyah\u2019 on ATV ATV decided to profile Toyah in a documentary, directed by filmmaker Graham Moore. This was a significant coup for Toyah, securing an hour of prime-time TV as an \u2018up and coming\u2019 recording artist. It was produced by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3428,3430,28],"tags":[1157,335],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43353"}],"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=43353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43363,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43353\/revisions\/43363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}