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Punk Icon and Spiritual Seeker Set Free From Outer Shell
"I had a guru who left the mortal world in December. He gave me a meditation on the spirit, it was a female spirit, very beautiful but it made me think about that; how this body is just a material body, like an outer shell. It will deteriorate and die, but we can leave something behind in our music or art."
—Poly Styrene, born Marianne Joan Elliott-Said, has died at the age of 53. Oh, let's play one more!
her new album was out in the states today. what a loss. what a woman.
Goddess.
Aww. Why'd ya have to be right this time?
RIP. She was a true renegade.
That voice.
Quoting from memory something Julie Burchill wrote about her many years ago, screw Bob Dylan this is poetry:
I clambered over mounds and mounds
Of polystyrene foam
And fell into a swimming pool
Filled with fairy snow
And watched the world turn day-glo
I'm gutted, I'll never forget the WTF? effect she had on us kids at the time.
Her death was presaged by Lady Gaga's Grammy performance.
And Phoebe Snow died today too. Cruelest month can't end too soon for me, dammit.
I thought she was getting well. RIP Polly!
Makes me immeasurably sad.