{"id":43562,"date":"2026-02-10T13:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=43562"},"modified":"2026-02-10T14:06:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:06:39","slug":"toyah-50-desire-a-riot-of-toyah-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/toyah-50-desire-a-riot-of-toyah-colour\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyah 50: Desire &#8211; A Riot Of Toyah Colour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/toyah-50\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/toyah-50\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-43483 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/career50b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"87\" \/><\/a><strong>2026 marks the 50th year of Toyah&#8217;s career!<\/strong> Her very first professional job, playing the role of Sue in the BBC&#8217;s &#8220;Second City First&#8221; television play, <em>Glitter<\/em>, aired in November 1976 &#8211; having been filmed in 1975.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m celebrating this awesome landmark via cherry picked moments from Toyah&#8217;s 50 years as an artist: Singer, Songwriter, Actor, Writer, Storyteller&#8230; This also means I can simultaneously revisit past work from 26+ years of Dreamscape too.<\/p>\n<p><em>Desire<\/em>, Toyah&#8217;s sophomore solo album, was released in 1987 on E&#8217;G Records and was a real departure for her musically, lyrically, sonically&#8230; It&#8217;s recently been released on deluxe, expanded, 2CD and vinyl picture disc. It was also an important part of Toyah&#8217;s first ever box set, Toyah Solo, released in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Please click below to dive in, be rescued, or maybe just have a read of Dreamscape&#8217;s <em><strong>Desire<\/strong><\/em> feature from January 2012&#8230; and stay tuned for more <strong>#<a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/toyah-50\/\">Toyah50<\/a><\/strong> celebrating.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/desire.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/desire.html noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-28580 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/desirefeat18a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/desirefeat18a.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/desirefeat18a-300x302.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/desirefeat18a-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026 marks the 50th year of Toyah&#8217;s career! Her very first professional job, playing the role of Sue in the BBC&#8217;s &#8220;Second City First&#8221; television play, Glitter, aired in November 1976 &#8211; having been filmed in 1975. I&#8217;m celebrating this awesome landmark via cherry picked moments from Toyah&#8217;s 50 years as an artist: Singer, Songwriter, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,17,129],"tags":[1876,3467],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43562"}],"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=43562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43564,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43562\/revisions\/43564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}