nepalnepal — 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 ...

Celeste Bell, the daughter of X-Ray Spex singer Poly Styrene, opens her documentary “Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliche” with a simple question: Was her punk rock icon mother a good parent? It comes as no ...

Marianne Elliot-Said, better known as the punk singer Poly Styrene, passed away Monday evening. She'd been diagnosed with breast cancer earlier this year. Styrene was the frontwoman of X-Ray Spex, a ...

Poly Styrene, the iconic lead singer of the 1970s British punk band X-Ray Spex, has died. She was 53. “The beautiful Poly Styrene, who has been a true fighter, won her battle on Monday evening to go ...

LOS ANGELES — 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 ...

British punk icon Poly Styrene died Monday. She was 53 and had been battling breast cancer. She was best known as the singer for X-Ray Spex, though she was only a member of the band for a few years ...

This article is from the archive of our partner . By coincidence, Styrene's new album Generation Indigo comes out in the U.S. today. Here's an excerpt from Robert Christgau's review at NPR, evidently ...