Toyah
Toyah (born Toyah Ann Willcox on 18 May 1958 in King's Heath, Birmingham, E… Read Full Bio ↴Toyah (born Toyah Ann Willcox on 18 May 1958 in King's Heath, Birmingham, England) is an English actress and singer. In a career spanning more than thirty years, Toyah has had 13 Top 40 singles, released 22 studio albums, written two books, appeared in over forty stage plays and ten feature films, and voiced and presented numerous television shows, including Brum, Watchdog and Songs of Praise.
She attended Edgbaston C of E College where she gained a GCE pass in music and trained as an actress at the Old Rep Drama School in her home town of Birmingham. Toyah's father ran successful joinery businesses.
She first became well-known during the punk rock era, her appearances in Derek Jarman's 1977 film Jubilee and 1979's Who album-inspired Quadrophenia launching her as a provocative and anti-establishment figure, an image she eventually abandoned.
Fronting a band known as Toyah, her singing career was slow to take off and the band released six singles in the UK before finally hitting the charts in 1981, with "It's A Mystery" and "I Want To Be Free". These singles were also successful on an international level. In 1982, she was voted Best Female Singer at the British Rock and Pop Awards — since restyled as The BRIT Awards, or "BRITs" — and in 1986 she married UK guitarist Robert Fripp. She was one of the first acts to score regularly in the UK Singles Chart with EPs. Also in 1986, Willcox sang lead on the Tony Banks track "Lion of Symmetry". In 1987 she made the top fifty with her version of "Echo Beach".
Since then, she has become a well-known (and more conventional) face on television and in the theatre. She has played straight roles, including in Quatermass (1979) and in Shakespeare plays, and appeared as a presenter of programmes such as Songs of Praise, Holiday (BBC), and Good Sex Guide Late. In 1999, she took the lead in the children's television series, Barmy Aunt Boomerang. She also provides the voiceover for the children's television programmes, the Teletubbies and Brum. More recently, she appeared in the reality television series I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! and I'm Famous and Frightened!.
Following her 2000 autobiography Living Out Loud, Toyah had a further autobiographical book published in 2005 documenting her experience of cosmetic surgery, Diary of a Facelift.
She has appeared on radio including the 2002 BBC Radio 4 series The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
She continues to perform with her band, releasing a live DVD in 2005, and has a busy schedule with theatre commitments, including appearing on stage in London's West End performing the title role of Calamity Jane at the Shaftesbury Theatre in 2003.
She is currently appearing in the musical 'Vampire's Rock' in theatres across the UK.
She attended Edgbaston C of E College where she gained a GCE pass in music and trained as an actress at the Old Rep Drama School in her home town of Birmingham. Toyah's father ran successful joinery businesses.
She first became well-known during the punk rock era, her appearances in Derek Jarman's 1977 film Jubilee and 1979's Who album-inspired Quadrophenia launching her as a provocative and anti-establishment figure, an image she eventually abandoned.
Fronting a band known as Toyah, her singing career was slow to take off and the band released six singles in the UK before finally hitting the charts in 1981, with "It's A Mystery" and "I Want To Be Free". These singles were also successful on an international level. In 1982, she was voted Best Female Singer at the British Rock and Pop Awards — since restyled as The BRIT Awards, or "BRITs" — and in 1986 she married UK guitarist Robert Fripp. She was one of the first acts to score regularly in the UK Singles Chart with EPs. Also in 1986, Willcox sang lead on the Tony Banks track "Lion of Symmetry". In 1987 she made the top fifty with her version of "Echo Beach".
Since then, she has become a well-known (and more conventional) face on television and in the theatre. She has played straight roles, including in Quatermass (1979) and in Shakespeare plays, and appeared as a presenter of programmes such as Songs of Praise, Holiday (BBC), and Good Sex Guide Late. In 1999, she took the lead in the children's television series, Barmy Aunt Boomerang. She also provides the voiceover for the children's television programmes, the Teletubbies and Brum. More recently, she appeared in the reality television series I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! and I'm Famous and Frightened!.
Following her 2000 autobiography Living Out Loud, Toyah had a further autobiographical book published in 2005 documenting her experience of cosmetic surgery, Diary of a Facelift.
She has appeared on radio including the 2002 BBC Radio 4 series The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
She continues to perform with her band, releasing a live DVD in 2005, and has a busy schedule with theatre commitments, including appearing on stage in London's West End performing the title role of Calamity Jane at the Shaftesbury Theatre in 2003.
She is currently appearing in the musical 'Vampire's Rock' in theatres across the UK.
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Toyah Lyrics
Alien I'm sorry I'm late I was delayed in time Having a…
All In A Rage (Willcox/Bogen) Just the same old world in a new dimension A…
America For Beginners What's keeping the White House, white Is it chalk, is it…
Angel Angel And Me I knock the telephone from the table And the…
Angel & Me I knock the telephone from the table And the room starts…
Angel and Me Angel And Me I knock the telephone from the table And th…
Angel In You Give me your hand / I’m leading you up the…
Angels & Demons Changeling Of flesh Necromancy Your ashes No tomorrow L…
Bad Man You are not a bad man Bad men do what bad…
Be Proud Be Loud Be Heard You Give Me Fire Fire... In my soul I think I've been here …
Bird in Flight (Willcox / Bogen / Bush / Francis / Bray) He runs…
Blue Meanings (Willcox / Bogen / Bush) The big grey building breathes oxy…
Brave New World (Willcox / Bogen) A loneliness that no-one knows, When his …
Brilliant Day As we drove off in your car Didn't need to return…
Broken Diamonds (Words Willcox / Music Bogen) Temptation Motivation Hesitati…
Castaways We leave the approach The runways no longer closed Journey i…
Come You’re my guilty pleasure there’s no half measures / You’ve…
Computer (Willcox / Bogen / Bush) Bring on the wooden boxes Christ a…
Creepy Room (Willcox / Bogen) Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll …
Danced I love you, strange man You had come from so far…
Dawn Chorus Wasp waisted Modest and man-shy We can never decide Which co…
Deadly As A Woman Deadly as a woman can be purgatory in motion Sweet tastes…
Dear Diary Dear diary, dear diary She's always late, she overslept …
Demolition Men (Words Willcox/Music Lee) In the labyrinth We grow so thin W…
Desire (Willcox / Fripp) Let me run riot of colour over you Let…
Don All around, another sign of healing Through the twisted reas…
Don't Fall In Love (Willcox/Darlow) The lovers are dancing like a fairy tale Th…
Dream House (willcox/sidelnyc) There's a house on the outskirts of Marlb…
Dreamscape (Words Willcox / Music Bogen) Now the whole of the human…
Echo Beach (Gane) I know it's out of fashion and a trifle uncool But…
Elocution Lesson (Words Willcox Music Bogen) Now the whole of the human race …
Elusive Stranger (Willcox / Bogen / Bush) Elusive Stranger Captive son of mi…
Falling to Earth (willcox) I cannot sleep The saint in me eludes me This man …
Furious Futures You hear about the crime You hear about the pain We all kno…
Ghost Light Around and around We dance Up and down Inside out we dance S…
Ghosts (Willcox / Bogen / Bush / Francis) We both – that's…
Ghosts in the Universe (willcox/sidelnyc) Here I stand on a large chunk of rock Flo…
God Ceases to Dream (Willcox / Nicholas) Look inside now Has God ceased to drea…
Good Morning Universe (Willcox / Bogen) Good Morning Universe Good morning unive…
Goodbye Baby Ooh pretty baby, I lie burning Ooh pretty baby, never do…
Heal Ourselves You are not my ennemy, you are a part of…
Hello (willcox/sidelnyc) "do I improvise this?" "just be obscure. …
Homeward I drive away As far as I can Town to spire to…
Hyperventilate Why is it so brittle this thread that holds us…
I Am My fingers are grass My tongue the asp My town a burial…
I Believe in Father Christmas (Lake / Sinfield / Prokofiev) They said there'll be snow at…
I Explode (Words Willcox / Music Bogen) Skimming the surface of a slee…
I Wanna Be Free I'm bored Don't want to go to school Don't want to be…
I'll Serve You Well (Willcox/Darlow) I'll serve you well, be your western girl T…
Ieya Ieya, Solar Ieya, Calling The perfect sphere, A star My c…
In the Fairground (Willcox / Bogen) Drifters in the city In the fairground Li…
Indecision (Willcox / Bogen / Bush / Henry) I see, I seek…
Insects (Willcox / Bogen / Bush) Wind ignites doors of midnight Sla…
Invisible Love (Willcox / Darlow) Conversations with you Made feel so spec…
It Somewhere in the distance Hidden from view Suspended in th…
It's a Mystery Somewhere in the distance Hidden from view Suspended in the …
Its A Mystery Somewhere in the distance Hidden from view Suspended in th…
Jazz Singers in the Trees (willcox/sidelnyc) Jazz jazz singers in the trees now, Shiny…
Jungles of Jupiter (Words Willcox/Music Bogen, Spalding) The Jungles of Jupiter…
Last Goodbye She reaches out to hold him tight "Don't worry, love. I'll…
Latex Messiah Silly Billy been a naughty boy Gone and broken all your…
Laughing With The Fools Celebration Of fools Someone somewhere Is looking at me Som…
Lesser God I won't crack and I won't bleed I won't let you…
Let the Power Bleed (willcox/sidelnyc) I cut the sky with a hopeless cry Let the…
Life in the Trees Life in the trees Reflections seen in mango leaves No more …
Lords of the Never Known Punching air, my lungs explode Punching sky with fists Finge…
Love (Words Willcox / Music Bogen) Who are you? Your skin cuts.. …
Love Crazy I get bored outta my face but attention deficit doesn’t…
Love Is the Law (Words Willcox / Music Bogen/Darlow/Spalding) Love is an oce…
Love Me Standing alone on a treacherous landscape A dissolute city s…
Love's Unkind Well I seem him every morning in the schoolyard When the…
Lust for Love (Willcox / Bonacci) The world's in my veins My skin holds i…
Marionette Twisted strangers Have gone to war Oxygen drunk Fall bleedin…
Martian Cowboy (Words Willcox / Music Bogen/Darlow/Spalding) Desert Hound M…
Masai Boy (Words Willcox/Music Willcox, Lee) Rise o sun Rise o sun Gol…
Moonlight Dancing Stand tall Take the blows Never fall Tomorrow will bring new…
Mummies (Willcox / Bogen / Bush / Francis) We are the mummies…
Name of Love (Willcox / Beggs / Askew) I miss you so badly So badly…
Neon Womb (Willcox / Bogen / Bush) In the neon womb of verbal…
Now I'm Running (Willcox / Nicholas) Now I'm running... You're everywhere…
Obsession (willcox) Baby, baby, baby, baby 1, 2, 3 Oh never mind Pr..p…
Obsolete (Words Willcox/Music Bogen,Glockler) Obsolete We're the obso…
Ophelia She takes the night train With her Bible of dreams A suitcas…
Our Movie (Willcox / Bogen / Bush) Let my light blast a shadow…
Over Twenty-One (Kajanus) You get my letters But I don't understand your r…
Pop Star (Words Willcox/Music Lee,Glockler) Walk Talk Bend and break …
Prospect This serene madness This deceptive rashness Wonder, wonder…
Prostitute (Willcox/Sidelnyc) Fingers cross my lips Drawing pretty maps…
Race Through Space (Willcox / Bogen / Bush) Please show me a place We race…
Rebel of Love (Words Willcox / Music Bogen) Who are you? Your skin cuts.. …
Rebel Run (Words Willcox / Music Darlow) Praying to the silent man A n…
Remember Everything and Everyone Everything and Everyone I have ever …
Restless (willcox/sidelnyc) Well you know I've been dloating here for…
Revelations Jack and Jill went up the hill To fetch a pale…
Revive The World (Trouble in the engine room) Take a look at the tree…
Run Wild Run Free (Willcox / Bogen) Well I sell my soul to Faust, each…
School Well we got no choice, all the girls and boys Makin'…
School's Out Well we got no choice, all the girls and boys Makin'…
Sensational Hey little wonder, don't cry We'll be fine, we're gonna fly …
She She smears it all o'er me Our raw meat clash A parapet…
Soldier Of Fortune Terrorist Of Love Willcox/Lee) In my dreams there's a sleeping hunger The inst…
Soul Passing Through Soul (Willcox/St James) It's lonely in my nightmare What do you d…
Space Between The Sounds The sounds are asleep Motionless waters on a cobbled street…
Spaced Walking Floating down the Orinoco, On a breeze from Alca Poco Soft s…
Sphinx Eyes glow Vestal virgins laugh In the swirling smoke As the …
Stand Proud そして、集いしスターダスト 100年目の目醒めに 呼ばれて 男たちは向かう 時の砂を越えるJourney 鎖のよう連…
Sympathy (Stansfield/Kassinetti/Gould/Ashton) When you climb into you…
Take What You Will Take what you will In a dark, moonlit state Collecting wit…
The Angel & Me Angel And Me I knock the telephone from the table And the…
The Druids (Willcox / Bogen) The meeting commences in the arena; Glad…
The Last Goodbye She reaches out to hold him tight "Don't worry, love. I'll…
The Packt (Willcox / Bogen) The doors blow open, you've arrived "Now …
The Shaman Says Swimming up from sleep The last morning dream The sun blee…
The Show As you sleep in our bed In my arms I see I…
The View In your house is a room I avoid Full of junk and…
The Vow (Words Willcox / Music Bogen/Spalding) In every waking hour …
Thunder in the mountain THUNDER IN THE MOUNTAINS ======================== Where the …
Tiger Tiger (Willcox / Bray / Bogen / Francis / Bush) A raging…
Time Is Ours (Words Willcox / Music Bogen) The burning, Burn, burn, burn,…
To the Mountains High (Willcox / Bogen) They drove me to the other side Off the…
Tribal Look Make a tribal look Take a tribal stance Don't look back Don'…
Turning Tide Keeper of the high seas Now we turn to you for…
Vale of Evesham (willcox) I can feel summer at last from the heat In the…
Victims of the Riddle Take a tin Of unwanted embryos Paint a bird Then let it go G…
Vigilante (Bogdanovs) Deep in the city, far from home Down in the alle…
Vision I had a vision of invasion See two lonely planets collide Fe…
Vow (Words Willcox / Music Bogen/Spalding) In every waking hour …
Waiting (Willcox / Bray) Bones stand waiting Beneath the unbroken s…
Walkie Talkie Exploring Down through the great white Up through the sink A…
War Boys We're the lords of the jungle ? We're the war…
We Are This is a word in your ear Can you hear? We have…
When A Woman Cries When a woman cries When a woman cries When a woman cries No…
Who Let the Beast Out Who let the beast out / I’m talking bout the…
Wife (Willcox) This is your five minute call five minutes ladies …
Winter in Wonderland (Willcox / Beggs / Askew) Winter equator Footprints in the …
World In Action Where will you go, when the sirens blow? Will you run…
You Give me your hand / I’m leading you up the…
You're a Miracle (Willcox / Elsimburg) Love is time made tangible Pain is cr…