I've always been a punky kinda chick, liked people who are a bit different from the rest and I've always admired strong women with multi-coloured, back-combed barnets (well, I did when I was 7). The first album I ever bought with my own money was Anthem. This was Toyah's most successful album with hit singles of "It's A Mystery" and "I Want To Be Free" contained within. The other songs contained within are mindfully awful, but that's ok, what 7 year-old girl was really listening anyway? I was just led belly-down, feet-up in the air, on the rug in our old council house, gazing admiringly at her looking determinedly into the future on the cover of her album, dreaming of a day when I could get away with hair like that (I never bothered of course). Toyah was the woman I dared never be, but there were to be plenty of others too ...
Toyah Ann Willcox (born May 18, 1958)
3 lip schticks:
Ah, Toyah. As a teenager, I spent many a long hour in the bathroom thinking deviant thoughts about this woman, and that little lisp? Oooh, you sexy ginger monkey! Warrior Rock indeed!
Ah Inchy, you win the prize for the first comment on my new blog. May the force be with you! I'll dedicate my book to you when I get a publishing deal on the strength of it.
I am truly blessed. I will name my first-born Chinchilla after you as a token of my gratitude.
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