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POLY STYRENE: I AM A CLICHÉ
DIGITAL PLATFORMS
9/10
Powerful, lyrical bio-doc of the original germ-free adolescent
OF all the strange blooms to flourish in the wake of the Sex Pistols’ first tour across the infernal English summer of 1976, the boldest and brightest was Poly Styrene. A mixed-race child of a sad-eyed Somali stowaway dad and fierce white south London mum, she walked into their gig on Hastings Pier (supporting Welsh metallers Budgie) on her 19th birthday as Marianne Joan Elliott-Said and skipped out a transformed woman.
“The world
