Curious Creatures16 Okt 2023

Celeste Bell Pt. 2: The Do-It-Yourself World of X-Ray Spex

Exploding Suburban Myths

Feminism, Formica and Friends

Watch the curtains twitch for a brand-new switch

Another music from a different day-glo kitchen

Myriad, misogynistic, moustachioed men

GermFree Adolescents!

Poly’s lyrics reach out across time

Don’t touch me please I can’t take the wants and needs!

Poly sings Love songs and laments for the voiceless ones

New Yorks a-Go-go!

A formative experience for Poly and the boys

Two gigs a night made a mind changing noise

X-Ray Spex were the first punks to play the USA

CBGBs crowd a million times ruder than Erics in their day

Exhaustion and Tears in The Whiskey a-Go-go!

It wasn’t that Poly had to catch up with the World

‘Twas the World had to catch up with Poly.

Big Paul’s drumming was Big and complete

Poly often sang acapella to the beat

High Energy Rock & Roll!

Poly also sang each instrument’s part

And produced the Music and created the Art

50’s Do-Wop n’ Blues had an influential hand

In Poly’s creative use of the band

Poly’s Passions!

Punk’s DIY Ethic was a necessary tool

Finance was fickle and Poly was no fool

Necessity was always the Mother of Invention

Poly’s Grandmother Understood!

She was never going to be a doctor - but if she’d wanted to she could

She was Always going to be a creator - and so often misunderstood

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Respect: Poly Styrene (Marianne Joan Elliott-Said: 3 July 1957 – 25 April 2011)

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