I did a talk at a zine fest recently and only one person in the room had heard of #XraySpex. The band was fronted by teenaged Ethiopian-British, eccentric, bipolar, avant-garde, punk singer and songwriter #PolyStyrene who was born OTD in 1957. Her daughter, #CelesteBell made a documentary about her that came out in 2021. #punk #1977 #WomenInPunk #WomenOfColor

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🖤 In memory of the one and only Marianne Joan Elliott-Said aka Poly Styrene, frontwoman of the punk rock band X-Ray Spex, born on this day in 1957, Bromley, United Kingdom 🖤

Photo by Falcon Stuart

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X‐Ray Spex:
🎵 The Day the World Turned Day‐Glo

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In memory Poly Styrene 🖤❤️

July 3rd 1957 - April 25, 2011

X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescence (TOTP 23rd November 1978)

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Remembering Poly Styrene, singer-songwriter and frontwoman of the punk rock band X-Ray Spex.

Poly died of metastatic breast cancer on 25 April 2011, at the age of 53 💔🖤

📸 Julie Davis

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48 years ago today
The unforgotten Poly Styrene with X-Ray Spex at Greyhound, Park Lane, Croydon, April 16, 1977.

Photos by Gus Stewart

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