{"id":43375,"date":"2025-12-20T14:24:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T14:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=43375"},"modified":"2025-12-21T16:31:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T16:31:59","slug":"christmas-2025-day-20-a-royal-prophecy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/christmas-2025-day-20-a-royal-prophecy\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2025: Day 20: A Royal Prophecy"},"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 1984<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">, and Toyah had released no new music during the year for the first time since very early 1979, although the compilation album &#8211; on vinyl, cassette and video &#8211; <em>Toyah! Toyah! Toyah!<\/em> (unofficially, and latterly officially sub-titled &#8220;All The Hits&#8221;, and not to be confused, and never really has been aside from a few chart compilers, with the live 1980 album with the same title) was released in February of this year. This is significant as it was the first ever Toyah hits compilation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Despite no new music this year, Toyah still appeared in many of the music magazines in 1984, including this Christmas feature from <em>Smash Hits<\/em> special issue&#8230; <em>Smash Hits Christmas Party<\/em> &#8211; featuring Frankie Goes To Hollywood on the cover &#8211; published in association with Woolworth \u2013 in December: <em><strong>Will You Be Watching The Queen\u2019s Speech?<\/strong><\/em> When you jump up after the Christmas <em>Top Of The Pops<\/em>, is it to stand to attention for Her Majesty or a mad dash to switch off the TV? We asked a selection of pop stars if they\u2019d be tuning in to that speech?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">You can read Toyah&#8217;s response below, but more interestingly, in retrospect, Toyah appears to be incredibly prescient about the Royal Family&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20890 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shwe84a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shwe84a.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shwe84a-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas 1984, and Toyah had released no new music during the year for the first time since very early 1979, although the compilation album &#8211; on vinyl, cassette and video &#8211; Toyah! Toyah! Toyah! (unofficially, and latterly officially sub-titled &#8220;All The Hits&#8221;, and not to be confused, and never really has been aside from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3428,3430,67],"tags":[3292],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43375"}],"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=43375"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43383,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43375\/revisions\/43383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}