R I P Poly Styrene

[jimbo68]

RIP Poly Styrene ( X Ray Spex ) Punk Legend.

[gjammer]

Just read news...RIP

[amfy]

This has made me feel so sad.

RIP seems not to fit for Poly somehow - shake things up a bit up there girl!

[Ponyegg]

Very saddened to hear this news today as well, what with Elisabeth Sladen going as well all of my early crushes are steadily leaving us.

[CrispyRed]

I first heard Oh Bondage Up Yours on the John Peel Show when I was about 16 and I remember how excited it made me feel. I couldn't believe someone had actually made a record like that. "Thrash me, crash me, beat me 'til I fall. I wanna be a slave to you all" Taking things that bit further made X-Ray Spex one of the stand-out bands of the punk era. Nobody ever matched them; nobody ever could.

She ripped up the rule book and unwittingly wrote a few new rules herself; something that today's fame-hungry talent show wannabies couldn't even comprehend.

This is a very sad day indeed

[Alcatraz]

Heard her interviewed from the hospice she was at about a month ago. She'd just made a few tracks quite recently as well hadn't she. Always very sad

[jameshunt]

She released her third (I think) solo album about a month ago - Generation Indigo. Her voice had mellowed over the years and she sounds incredibly like Debbie Harry on a number of those tracks.

She will be sadly missed. A lot of my teenage heroes are kicking the bucket now. It sucks getting old.

R.I.P. Marianne Joan Elliott-Said (3 July 1957 – 25 April 2011)

[oss]

RIP Poly Styrene, : O, Cancer, Up Yours

[Mikeydread]

Saddening news indeed

[bonosbaby25]

very sad news..

[airds]

really sad news

Germ Free Adolescents was the first LP I bought and still one of my favourites

[sjp61]

This has made me feel so sad. RIP seems not to fit for Poly somehow - shake things up a bit up there girl!

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Sad news indeed. saw her and Xray Spex a few times back in the day!

[captain futility]

germfree adolescents is still sounding great today

rip poly

[DiscoDolly]

R.I.P Poly

[Random Circle]

Oh good thread; thanks for flagging this up. Cracking original 'Punk' sound; not what everyone would expect. You reached posterity Ms Poly x

[LawskiHoopza]

I think I will wear my 'Xray spex' t-shirt for one day at Glastonbury as a tribute to a great lady.

[Derby_Dave]

Bad times.

[Cooter]

One of the true renegades, will be really missed