{"id":43757,"date":"2026-04-29T18:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=43757"},"modified":"2026-04-29T18:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:28:08","slug":"rest-in-peace-keith-hale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/rest-in-peace-keith-hale\/","title":{"rendered":"Rest In Peace – Keith Hale"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Toyah has paid tribute to Keith Hale – the genius who wrote It’s A Mystery<\/em> and co-wrote Toyah’s debut single, Victims Of The Riddle <\/em>– who also co-produced and played on Sheep Farming In Barnet<\/em>. Keith and his band Blood Donor also appeared briefly in the 1980 ATV Toyah documentary, and he was also a full-time member of the Toyah band in 1982, also performing with Toyah and Joel on Pop Goes Christmas<\/em> in December ”82, as well as other significant TV appearances – who died last week.<\/p>\n

“My thoughts are with Keith Hale\u2019s family & friends especially Alice, Keith\u2019s daughter. Keith will be greatly missed.<\/em><\/p>\n

I owe so much to Keith\u2019s musical legacy from his groundbreaking band Blood Donor, who were staggeringly original right through to the success of \u201cIt\u2019s A Mystery\u201d. Keith was in my live band in 1982, and he was a gentleman and a good friend. I am grateful for the time I had with him.<\/em>” – Toyah Willcox<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 See Toyah’s tribute post at Facebook<\/strong><\/a> and Instagram<\/strong><\/a>. See also last week’s Saturday Song<\/strong><\/a>, and a news story at The Express<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Toyah has paid tribute to Keith Hale – the genius who wrote It’s A Mystery and co-wrote Toyah’s debut single, Victims Of The Riddle – who also co-produced and played on Sheep Farming In Barnet. Keith and his band Blood Donor also appeared briefly in the 1980 ATV Toyah documentary, and he was also a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[591],"tags":[3489,3488,3487],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43757"}],"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=43757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43761,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43757\/revisions\/43761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}