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A complicated, groundbreaking punk heroine gets her due in new documentary

Poly Styrene, the biracial lead singer of British punk band X-Ray Spex, is the subject of a gripping documentary co-directed by her daughter.

A Complicated, Groundbreaking Punk Heroine Gets Her Due In New Documentary

Los Angeles Times – by Evelyn McDonnell

The 12 near-perfect songs on “Germfree Adolescents,” the 1978 debut album by X-Ray Spex, clock in at just over a half hour, but the shock waves they detonated keep rippling out 44 years later.

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