Poly Styrene

Singer. Songwriter. Badass.

In honor of what should have been Poly Styrene’s 68th birthday, here’s chapter 18 from Volume I of my books in its entirety. XO

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She was born Marianne Joan Elliott-Said in 1957 in Bromley, Kent, England. Her father was said to have been a dispossessed Somalian aristocrat who didn’t stick around long, so she raised by her mother, a Scottish-Iris…