{"id":43595,"date":"2026-02-27T10:06:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=43595"},"modified":"2026-02-27T10:06:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:06:24","slug":"toyah-50-a-boxful-of-fan-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/toyah-50-a-boxful-of-fan-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyah 50: A Boxful Of Fan Memories!"},"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>A few weeks ago I found a big box of photos I haven&#8217;t seen for, at least, 35 years. This was a real treasure trove of a photos from a happy childhood and they brought back a lot of memories&#8230; and, from a fan perspective, this correlates to Toyah&#8217;s 50 year career.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-43596 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/t50me26a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/t50me26a.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/t50me26a-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been a fan of Toyah&#8217;s amazingly eclectic career for 46 years of those 50. Here&#8217;s me in 1982 and 1983 (above) and this week! (below) Yup, us Toyah fans have a lot of staying power!!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-43597 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/t50me26b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/t50me26b.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/t50me26b-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/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. A few weeks ago I found a big box of photos I haven&#8217;t seen for, at least, 35 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[121,160],"tags":[1876],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43595"}],"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=43595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43599,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43595\/revisions\/43599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}