X-Ray Spex

...and they appeared regularly at Rock Against Racism concerts. They were joined at these gigs by the likes of The Clash, Steel Pulse and X-Ray Spex. "2-4-6-8 Motorway" was their first single, released in late 1977. It got into the top five...

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...cuts himself up and the whole screaming mess slides south. Additional performances by Generation X (with Billy Idol), the Dead Boys, X-Ray Spex and other punk stalwarts add to the feeling of a door being noisily slammed shut. But you...

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...Joan Elliott Said, better known by the stage name Poly Styrene, is an English musician, best known as the singer of the punk rock band X-Ray Spex. Said was born in 1957 in Bromley, Kent. Her mother, who raised her alone, was an English...

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...looking like they've outgrown their school uniforms are less than memorable. But what he captures is something else, indeed. X-Ray Spex do a great rendition of "Bondage, Up Yours! " The Jam (clearly a favorite of the director) perform a...

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X-Ray Spex are an English punk band from London that formed in 1976. During their first incarnation (1976 - 79), X-Ray Spex were "deliberate underachievers" and only managed to release five singles plus one album. Nevertheless, their...

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...of Munch or Bacon. It may have taken a couple of decades, but the world caught up to that sound. It's difficult to imagine the X-Ray Spex anthem "Oh Bondage, Up Yours!," the Riot Grrl movement of the '90s (featuring groups like...

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...that George's homosexuality prevented him being fully accepted. Elliott-Said, 52, better known as Poly Styrene of punk band X-Ray Spex, lived as a Hare Krishna in Hertfordshire and London from 1983 to 1988. 'I remember when Boy George...

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...light or heat. It's a rollicking good time for 10 dancers set to music by Daniel Iglesia, who crashes Mozart into the punk band X-Ray Spex. Hands get very busy over heads, and people run and spiral and fly. Armitage Gone!, it appears, has...

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X-Ray Spex were, in my mind, the very best of the one-album-wonder punk bands. Germfree Adolescents is very nearly a perfect album, and then Poly Styrene got religion and quit. Well, at least she's still alive. By the way, this is a...

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A pair of acclaimed British bands reunited this weekend, as both ska legends the Specials and punk act X-Ray Spex reformed. The bulk of the Specials were the surprise guests at this weekend's Bestival at the Isle of Wight, playing their...

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