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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...