Popeater — Filed under: Music News, Celebrity Deaths, AOL Music Sadly, the punk world lost one of its great pioneers this week as X-Ray Spex's iconic leader Poly Styrene (aka Marian Joan Elliott-Said) succumbed to breast cancer. She was 53 years old. The Bri... more info

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The Independent — Poly Styrene, the female punk musician whose band X-Ray Spex changed the direction of popular culture, has died from cancer at the age of 53. more info

KEXP Seattle — They lasted only three years and produced only one album,* but for a band of self-branded underachievers X-Ray Spex managed to create a classic of English punk rock in Germ Free Adolescents. Led by singer Poly Styrene, the band had long lasting influ... more info

Guardian Music — One of the punk era's original talents who 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 Poly Styrene, who has died of cancer aged 53, remai... more info

MVSW — X-Ray Spex ~ “Oh Bondage! Up Yours!” It sucks that Poly Styrene died the day before her album, Generation Indigo, was released. more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Poly Styrene, whose clarion call, "Oh bondage, up yours!" became the rallying cry of punk feminists everywhere and foretold the Riot Grrrl movement, died Monday at the age of 53 after a long battle with cancer. more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Poly Styrene, whose clarion call, "Oh bondage, up yours!" became the rallying cry of punk feminists everywhere and foretold the Riot Grrrl movement, died Monday at the age of 53 after a two-year battle with cancer. As a member of... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — X-Ray Spex (Poly Styrene on the right) Poly Styrene, best known as the frontwoman with 1970s punk group X-Ray Spex, has died. Styrene was receiving treatment for an advanced form of breast cancer when she passed away yesterday (Monday 25... more info

Stereogum — Legendary London-born X-Ray Spex vocalist Poly Styrene, aka Marianne Elliot Said, has died at the age of 53 after a battle with breast cancer (it spread to her spine and lungs before being diagnosed). An official statement reads: “We can confirm th... more info