{"id":43697,"date":"2026-03-29T12:28:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T11:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=43697"},"modified":"2026-03-29T12:32:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T11:32:46","slug":"music-news-toyah-fights-back-against-ageism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/music-news-toyah-fights-back-against-ageism\/","title":{"rendered":"Music News: Toyah Fights Back Against Ageism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.music-news.com\/news\/UK\/187987\/Toyah-fights-back-against-ageism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.music-news.com\/news\/UK\/187987\/Toyah-fights-back-against-ageism noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-43698 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/mnc26a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a><strong>In a new interview with Leona Graham on The Leona Graham Podcast, Toyah reflects on challenges she\u2019s faced in her last 50 years in the industry, including her current experience of ageism:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018I&#8217;d say in this millennium I&#8217;ve had to deal with quite different things. Life has been fantastic. I&#8217;ve made wonderful movies, done fantastic tours, but there&#8217;s that edge of, \u2018oh, you are old now.\u2019 And I&#8217;m thinking, \u2018Yeah? And I have pedigree, deal with it.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Toyah also reveals that her first introduction to rock music came when she broke into a Black Sabbath gig at the age of 12:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2026a roadie opened the exit. I think it was the Top Rank in Birmingham. And I slipped in. I think I was on my own and I didn&#8217;t know what to expect, but I&#8217;d heard a lot about Black Sabbath and it was so incredibly loud. And I think I was one of about two women in the audience. It wasn&#8217;t a huge audience but I will never, ever forget hearing \u201cParanoid\u201d.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.music-news.com\/news\/UK\/187987\/Toyah-fights-back-against-ageism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Music News<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new interview with Leona Graham on The Leona Graham Podcast, Toyah reflects on challenges she\u2019s faced in her last 50 years in the industry, including her current experience of ageism: \u2018I&#8217;d say in this millennium I&#8217;ve had to deal with quite different things. Life has been fantastic. I&#8217;ve made wonderful movies, done fantastic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,27],"tags":[2200,3480],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43697"}],"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=43697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43705,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43697\/revisions\/43705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}