Talk:Toyah (band)

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thumb|right|150px|NonFreeImageRemoved.svg After being prodded about needing to add some fair use rationale to the album cover images, I thought I may as well use the opportunity to replace my old and frankly rather smudgy screen-grab with this downloadable image from the BBC's website. I think that my rationalisation of what constitutes its fair use is reasonable, but if anyone has good reason to disagree please let me know and I'll put the old one back.--— Chris (blather • contribs) 13:35, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

PS anybody know the performance? I'm assuming "It's A Mystery" from '81-ish, but my memory's not too good.--— Chris (blather • contribs) 13:35, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Band?
I've just looked at this page for the first time. Since when was Toyah a band? Toyah is a solo artist and was since her first hit single back in 1981. All her single and album covers featured just her, all the photo sessions featured just her, every magazine referred to Toyah as 'her'. I don't know enough about her career before that - but certainly the chart and reference books describe Toyah as a female singer (not a band), she won the BRIT award as a solo female artist (otherwise the award would have been for 'band'). Even her own official website doesn't refer to Toyah's music career as a band.

She may well have had a regular backing band, but then many solo artists do. To say that "Minx" is Toyah's first album as a solo artist is ridiculous. Is this one person's attempt to rewrite history? The fact that this page has been going for over 2 years astounds me (before that - the whole career was under Toyah as an individual). And why am I the only one to notice this after all this time?

What does anyone else think?--Tuzapicabit (talk) 02:36, 24 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Definitely a "band" until her solo efforts of 1985's Minx and beyond; ISTR she herself refers to Toyah the band, though I'd need to dig out references to support that beyond my own rather flaky recollection... --— Chris (blather • contribs) 03:00, 1 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Absolutely - Toyah was always a band - when the band broke up she continued as a solo act under the same name, but the earlier (and best, IMNSHO) material was always from the band. I always considered anything that she did with Joel Bogen to be Toyah (band) and anything without him to be Toyah (solo) Martincolloby (talk) 18:35, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Totally agree with the comment above but i am not going to rewrite it. Toyah was totally and completely a band until 1983. The bands first incarnation with Toyah as lead singer was called 'ninth illusion' but they soon switched that to 'Toyah' as the band name which was fronted by Toyah Willcox the singer. Stu Tattersall

Proposed merge of Be Proud Be Loud (Be Heard) into Toyah (band)
Unsourced, no evidence of notability; merge was suggested during PROD decline -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 04:13, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

I disagree. The single charted fairly highly in the UK and Ireland. I added references supporting that as well as more information validating the song's notability. 1000MHz (talk) 20:28, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Closing, given the uncontested objection and no support. Klbrain (talk) 10:07, 26 September 2021 (UTC)