{"id":9023,"date":"2012-10-19T12:41:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T11:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/?p=9023"},"modified":"2012-10-19T13:38:05","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T12:38:05","slug":"penny-black-music-toyah-willcox-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/penny-black-music-toyah-willcox-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Penny Black Music: Toyah Willcox: Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk\/MagSitePages\/Article.aspx?id=6705\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk\/MagSitePages\/Article.aspx?id=6705\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9027\" style=\"border: 5px solid white;\" title=\"pbmint12a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pbmint12a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>A comprehensive new\u00a0interview with Toyah, from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk\/MagSitePages\/Article.aspx?id=6705\" target=\"_blank\">Penny Black Music<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>With her fiery hair and soaring, near operatic vocals, Toyah Willcox was one of the most striking and iconic singers of the early 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Willcox, who was brought up in Birmingham, first came to prominence as an actress, appearing in Derek Jarman\u2019s 1978\u2019s punk epic \u2018Jubilee \u2019and the Who-inspired \u2018Quadrophenia\u2019(1979), and also acting alongside Katherine Hepburn in the made-for-TV film \u2018The Corn is Green\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>By 1980 her musical career, which she had run concurrently with her acting career, had also begun to take off. With her band which was also called Toyah, she released five studio albums, \u2018Sheep Farming in Barnet\u2019 (1979), \u2018The Blue Meaning\u2019(1980), \u2018Anthem\u2019(1981), \u2018The Changeling\u2019(1982) and \u2018Love is the Law\u2019(1983). She also had seven Top 40 single hits, including in 1981, her most successful year, three Top 10 hits alone with \u2018Four from Toyah\u2019, \u2018I Want to Be Free\u2019 and \u2018Thunder in the Mountains\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Since Toyah folded in 1983, Toyah Willcox, who has been married to ex- King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp since 1986, has gone on to release another ten studio albums under her own name.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk\/MagSitePages\/Article.aspx?id=6705\" target=\"_blank\">Penny Black Music<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A comprehensive new\u00a0interview with Toyah, from Penny Black Music. With her fiery hair and soaring, near operatic vocals, Toyah Willcox was one of the most striking and iconic singers of the early 1980s. Willcox, who was brought up in Birmingham, first came to prominence as an actress, appearing in Derek Jarman\u2019s 1978\u2019s punk epic \u2018Jubilee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,116],"tags":[404],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9023"}],"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=9023"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9048,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9023\/revisions\/9048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}