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Leonie Cooper: Punk's forgotten female heros
Poly Styrene, the Raincoats and the Slits were among punk's most radical figures but have been overlooked by rock historians. As a new book finally celebrates their influence, Leonie Cooper speaks to...
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Poly Styrene, rock's original riot grrrl, plans to bondage up Christmas
X-Ray Spex singer – a cult figure revered by Kathleen Hanna, Kim Gordon and Karen O – is making an timely comebackBack in 1978, if you were into punk, you wore safety pins, bondage trousers and a...
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Poly Styrene: The Spex factor
Poly Styrene, the punk upstart from X-Ray Spex, is promoting a new album – and fighting cancerPoly Styrene had just finished working with celebrated producer Youth on her first album of commercial pop...
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Poly Styrene dies aged 53
The punk icon and singer with X-Ray Spex has died from an advanced form of breast cancerPoly Styrene, best known as the frontwoman with 1970s punk group X-Ray Spex, has died. Styrene was receiving...
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Poly Styrene – an optimist to the last
Even while battling cancer in a hospice, the former X-Ray Spex singer was talking about writing new songs and fighting cynicism. Here was a pop star who truly made a differenceThe internet is already...
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Poly Styrene obituary
One of the punk era's original talents, she fronted the band X-Ray SpexIt did not take long for the punk rock movement of the 1970s to lose its creative impetus and lapse into tedious repetition, but...
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There's nothing wrong in refusing to accept imminent death
Why, having had the illness, I don't cringe at reports that Poly Styrene 'lost her fight against cancer'The death of Poly Styrene from breast cancer, at 53, is very sad, of course. But having had the...
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Poly Styrene remembered by Boy George
She was a pioneer of the punk movement… and a legend in Boy George's lunchtimeFor the punk generation, Poly Styrene, the late punk songstress and poet, was a true legend, her style ironic and iconic....
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NME: 60 years of rock history ... and four front covers that define their eras
A 70s punk shocker, messy Madchester in the 80s, a 90s Britpop feud, and the X Factor Grinch in the 00s: on the eve of its 60th birthday next month, four NME editors pick their favourite covers and...
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Leonie Cooper: Punk's forgotten female heros
Poly Styrene, the Raincoats and the Slits were among punk's most radical figures but have been overlooked by rock historians. As a new book finally celebrates their influence, Leonie Cooper speaks to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Poly Styrene, rock's original riot grrrl, plans to bondage up Christmas
X-Ray Spex singer – a cult figure revered by Kathleen Hanna, Kim Gordon and Karen O – is making an timely comebackBack in 1978, if you were into punk, you wore safety pins, bondage trousers and a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Poly Styrene: The Spex factor
Poly Styrene, the punk upstart from X-Ray Spex, is promoting a new album – and fighting cancerPoly Styrene had just finished working with celebrated producer Youth on her first album of commercial pop...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Poly Styrene dies aged 53
The punk icon and singer with X-Ray Spex has died from an advanced form of breast cancerPoly Styrene, best known as the frontwoman with 1970s punk group X-Ray Spex, has died. Styrene was receiving...
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Poly Styrene – an optimist to the last
Even while battling cancer in a hospice, the former X-Ray Spex singer was talking about writing new songs and fighting cynicism. Here was a pop star who truly made a differenceThe internet is already...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Poly Styrene obituary
One of the punk era's original talents, she fronted the band X-Ray SpexIt did not take long for the punk rock movement of the 1970s to lose its creative impetus and lapse into tedious repetition, but...
View ArticleClik here to view.
There's nothing wrong in refusing to accept imminent death
Why, having had the illness, I don't cringe at reports that Poly Styrene 'lost her fight against cancer'The death of Poly Styrene from breast cancer, at 53, is very sad, of course. But having had the...
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Poly Styrene remembered by Boy George
She was a pioneer of the punk movement… and a legend in Boy George's lunchtimeFor the punk generation, Poly Styrene, the late punk songstress and poet, was a true legend, her style ironic and iconic....
View ArticleClik here to view.
NME: 60 years of rock history ... and four front covers that define their eras
A 70s punk shocker, messy Madchester in the 80s, a 90s Britpop feud, and the X Factor Grinch in the 00s: on the eve of its 60th birthday next month, four NME editors pick their favourite covers and...
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Poly Styrene and punk's perfect Christmas single
Punk band Goldblade have re-released City of Christmas Ghosts this year, a duet featuring the late Poly Styrene. It now stands as a tribute to one of my dear friends, says the band's John Robb, a woman...
View ArticleThe Punk Singer empowering and insightful
Former riot grrrl trailblazer Kathleen Hanna comes across as a force still to be reckoned with in this impressive documentaryThis terrifically watchable and impressively empowering documentary follows...
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