{"id":43947,"date":"2026-07-03T15:02:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T14:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=43947"},"modified":"2026-07-03T15:10:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T14:10:03","slug":"toyah-50-the-blue-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/toyah-50-the-blue-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyah 50: The Blue Meaning"},"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><em>The Blue Meaning<\/em> is an album, and Toyah era, that continues to intrigue even some 46 years after the release of the album. It could be said it&#8217;s captivated even more listeners over the past five years &#8211; with the deluxe Cherry Red reissue in 2021 truly celebrating the magnificent 1980 studio album in glorious style (and content).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In 2020 Dreamscape celebrated 40 years of <em>The Blue Meaning<\/em>, and it&#8217;s ever lasting magnificence via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/bluemeaning40.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>this feature&#8230;<\/strong><\/a> Browse all of our <a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/toyah-50\/\"><strong>Toyah 50<\/strong><\/a> posts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/bluemeaning40.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/bluemeaning40.html noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-43948 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bluemeaning26a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bluemeaning26a.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bluemeaning26a-300x217.jpg 300w\" 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. The Blue Meaning is an album, and Toyah era, that continues to intrigue even some 46 years after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[121,129,13],"tags":[1876],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43947"}],"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=43947"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43963,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43947\/revisions\/43963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}