Poly Styrene

Lora Logic, original sax player for X-ray Spex, has a new album out with her post-Spex band, Essential Logic, plus rereleases of their back catalogue.  Here she also talks about joining Poly’s band at age 15, the ups and downs of their long friendship, and her quarter-century break from music.

Hi Neil, unfortunately I do not own the copyright to any of the images here (which is why I did my best to credit the photographers when I could find them). And if copyright weren't an issue, I'd still need a high res photo to print, which I don't have for a promo poster. In some cases I do own a physical copy of the image (like this photo) and I could get you a higher-res scan at some point for you to get printed.

I don't have any posters, though. I have shared a lot of Poly Styrene/X-ray spex fan art over the years--maybe there are some artists out there selling their own posters and they could comment on this post! Or someone who knows a place for good quality X-Ray Spex replica posters, or who has a scan of theirs.

“I think she was very much ahead of her time. She was talking about the world as she saw it in the seventies, but in many ways, it was the world we live in now. She was on the edge, the precipice of globalisation and extreme consumerism, neoliberal capitalism… these were all things she could see starting.” -- Poly Styrene’s daughter, Celeste Bell

Poly Styrene, February 1978, photographed for "Over 21" magazine, by Rolph Gobits.