This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Poly Styrene stood out in British ...

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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 ...

Male fans and the music press wanted her to be a punky sex kitten thrashing around on stage, but she was always more thoughtful in her lyrics, which touched on slavery, gender stereotypes, genetic ...

In point of fact Poly Styrene was the first woman of colour to front a pop band in the UK. So in spite of X-Ray Spex only ever releasing one album Poly Styrene's influence on pop music can't be ...

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 ...

Marianne Joan Elliott-Said (3 July 1957 – 25 April 2011), known by the stage name Poly Styrene, was an English musician, singer-songwriter, and frontwoman for the punk rock band X-Ray Spex. She was ...

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This is not a banal or mundane fake-objective music history doc: it's an almost real-time chronicle of a daughter coming to grips with a mother's legacy. Go to Full Review Tim Stegall Austin Chronicle ...