She was best known as the frontwoman of X-Ray Spex. By Mark Cina British punk singer Poly Styrene has died after a battle with spine and breast cancer. She was 53. “We can confirm that the beautiful ...

Early last year, former X-Ray Spex singer and ’70s punk icon Poly Styrene (born Marianne Joan Elliott-Said) started work on Generation Indigo, her first solo disc in 31 years. And over the next ...

Poly Styrene stood out in British punk. Female in a male world, heavy in a skinny world, half-African in a white world, flaunting braces that looked like they could dent a lorry, she's linked in ...

Her punk-rock self-examination bests hippie-style narcissism. Ahem, Neil and Joni. Poly Styrene’s voice — a siren of joy and alarm — reaches into the millennium with a lesson for us all in the ...

There’s a picture of Poly Styrene shot onstage with X-Ray Spex in 1978 by Denis O’Regan that depicts the singer in full iconic flight: DIY-modified vintage 1950s clothing, gigantic hair, lips curled ...

New documentary Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché looks and the life of the late singer of iconic UK punk band X-Ray Spex. Here’s the synopsis: Poly Styrene was the first woman of colour in the UK to front ...

At the beginning of the documentary Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché, Celeste Bell, the daughter of former X-Ray Spex singer Poly Styrene, says: “My mother was a punk rock icon. People often asked me if ...

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. sales firm Utopia has picked up world rights excluding the UK to biographical doc Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché, narrated by Ruth Negga (Loving). The doc, which will unspool at the ...

Poly Styrene, the ungainly, vivacious British singer whose band X-ray Spex mocked both society’s conventions and punk rock’s excesses, died April 25 in England. She was 53. In February, Styrene ...