Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2019 22:38:00 GMT
Forgive the bumpf that's copied and pasted below but there's a new book out soon and I'm looking forward to getting it
Dayglo: The Creative Life of Poly Styrene
Celeste Bell and Zoë Howe
Published 28th March
Omnibus Press
www.amazon.co.uk/Dayglo-Creative-Life-Poly-Styrene/dp/1785586165
ISBN: 9781785586163
Specs 285mm x 210mm
Fully illustrated, colour
Poly Styrene was a singer songwriter, lyricist, artist, free thinker, postmodern style pioneer and lifelong spiritual seeker. She was a true punk icon. This rebel queen with the cheeky grin was also a latter day pop artist with a wickedly perceptive gift for satirising the world around her, and her brightly coloured playful aesthetic was sharply at odds with the stark monochrome style and nihilism of punk.
In Dayglo: The Creative Life of Poly Styrene, published by Omnibus Press on 28th March, the vibrant jigsaw of Poly’s inspiring and often moving story has been lovingly pieced together by her daughter - singer songwriter Celeste Bell - and acclaimed writer Zoë Howe (Typical Girls? The Story Of The Slits, and Stevie Nicks: Visions, Dreams and Rumours). It tells Poly’s story as an oral history together in one place for the first time, and includes testimonies from Vivienne Westwood, Don Letts, Glen Matlock, Jonathan Ross, Neneh Cherry, The Slits’ Tessa Pollitt, Thurston Moore, Jon Savage, and many others.
Dayglo: The Creative Life of Poly Styrene honestly and openly explores Poly’s exceptional life right up to her untimely passing in 2011. Growing up mixed-race in Brixton in the 1960s and being at the forefront of the emerging punk scene with X-Ray Spex in the 1970s, Poly balanced single motherhood and sometimes debilitating mental health issues with a solo music career. She went on to find faith with the Hare Krishna movement. Dayglo: The Creative Life of Poly Styrene is fully illustrated with personal photos from Poly’s family collection, handwritten lyrics, hand drawn artwork and band logos, short stories and entries from her diary. The book beautifully captures Poly Styrene’s creative and personal legacy, reminding us that if anyone had the power to turn our worlds dayglo, it was her.
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