{"id":44326,"date":"2026-10-18T20:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T19:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=44326"},"modified":"2026-10-18T21:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T20:05:07","slug":"toyah-50-four-from-toyah-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/toyah-50-four-from-toyah-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyah 50: Four From Toyah (Revisited)"},"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>One of the first &#8220;Toyah 50&#8221; posts at the start of the year wished the <a href=\"http:\/\/toyahwillcox.com\/album\/four-from-toyah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Four From Toyah<\/strong><\/em><\/a> EP, Toyah&#8217;s sixth UK single, Happy 45th Anniversary and we&#8217;re returning to <em>FFT<\/em> as it&#8217;s such a crucial element of Toyah&#8217;s discography and it&#8217;s importance can never be underestimated.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Four From Toyah<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; featuring <em>It&#8217;s A Mystery, Revelations, War Boys<\/em> and <em>Angels &amp; Demons<\/em> (all worthy of being standalone single releases or the lead song on the EP) was Toyah&#8217;s chart breakthrough release after three years of albums, singles and tours. It could be said that it changed everything and, at least, had a huge effect on the trajectory of Toyah&#8217;s career. Click below to view Dreamscape&#8217;s 30th Anniversary feature on the EP, from 2011. (In Memory of Keith Hale)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fft30.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fft30.html noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25017\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/fft35a.jpg\" alt=\"fft35a\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/fft35a.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/fft35a-300x199.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. One of the first &#8220;Toyah 50&#8221; posts at the start of the year wished the Four From Toyah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[441,591],"tags":[1876,3467],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44326"}],"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=44326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44330,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44326\/revisions\/44330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}