A new documentary surrounding the life of X-Ray Spex’s Poly Styrene has been announced. Titled Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché, director Paul Sng has set up an IndieGoGo campaign for the film, which is ...

Poly Styrene performing with X-Ray Spex at England’s Roxy Club in 1977. Photo: Gus Stewart/Redferns The first eleven seconds of X-Ray Spex’s debut single, from 1977, rank among the most memorable punk ...

Although the face of punk rock is often represented by white males and their rage and nihilistic attitudes, it was actually a black woman at the forefront of shaping punk’s political consciousness—and ...

The 12 near-perfect songs on “Germfree Adolescents,” the 1978 debut album by X-Ray Spex, clock in at just over a half hour, but the shock waves they detonated keep rippling out 44 years later. One of ...

If you’re not familiar with Poly Styrene, otherwise known as Marianne Joan Elliott-Said, then now is a good time to get to know one of punk's most radical women. The frontwoman of seminal band X-Ray ...

Poly Styrene, the braces-wearing singer who belted out "Oh bondage, up yours!" with the band X-Ray Spex, has died at the age of 53. Styrene, whose real name was Marion Elliott-Said, had been suffering ...

Former X-Ray Spex singer Poly Styrene, real name Marianne Joan Elliott-Said, has passed away aged 53. James McMahon explains why she was one of popular music’s great voices Many words will be written ...

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 ...

How do you make a documentary about your own mother? And how do you tell that story when you grew up in an unstable environment, with a fractured relationship? That’s the challenge that Celeste Bell ...

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 ...

I have a hunch. It’s the same reason Styrene wasn’t part of my punk starter kit when I was a pre-teen. Pop-punk was my gateway, and I memorized every Blink 182 album and the words to Green Day’s ...

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 ...