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Punk Icon Poly Styrene Dies From Breast Cancer

4961 days ago
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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Slits' Viv Albertine Pays Tribute To Poly Styrene

4961 days ago
Gigwise — X Ray Spex star died earlier this week... more info
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Plastic fantastic: the life of Poly Styrene

4961 days ago
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
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X-Ray Spex and solo artist Poly Styrene remembered

4961 days ago
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
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Poly Styrene obituary

4961 days ago
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
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Poly Styrene

4961 days ago
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
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Poly Styrene, influential singer for X-Ray Spex, has died

4961 days ago
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
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Poly Styrene, influential singer for X-Ray Spex, has died

4962 days ago
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
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Poly Styrene, RIP (new album released today)

4962 days ago
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
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RIP Poly Styrene

4962 days ago
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
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