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 since leaving X-Ray Spex in 1979, when she began to feel a slight pain in her back.Styrene, a feminist punk hero acknowledged by everyone from Beth Ditto to Karen O as one of music's most extraordinary women, went to her GP in the south coastal town of St Leonards-on-Sea, and was told to take ...

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