Poly Styrene

Marianne Joan Elliott-Said (3 July 1957 – 25 April 2011), known by the stage name Poly Styrene, was a British musician, singer-songwriter, and frontwoman for the punk rock band X-Ray Spex. Styrene was born Marianne Joan Elliott-Said in 1957 in Bromley, Kent, England, and raised in Brixton, London. Poly's mother, who raised her alone, was a Scottish-Irish legal secretary and father was a dispossessed Somali aristocrat.

Links To Peel
Peel had an interest in Poly's musical pursuits after X-Ray Spex split, especially in 1986, when he played her single Gods And Goddesses, which featured the tracks "Trick Of The Witch" and "Paramatma".

Shows Played
1986
 * Karl's Tape July 1986: Trick Of The Witch (single) Awesome
 * 18 August 1986: Paramatma (7" - Gods And Goddesses) Awesome