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Program from way back interview with famous punk group X Ray Spex singer Poly Styrene (Marianne Joan Elliott) who recently left her body after a battle with cancer at the age of 53. Poly Styrene was an initiated vaishnavi known with the name Maharani Dasi. The of Poly Styrene (aka Marianne Joan Elliott-Said) at 53 marks the end of a remarkable and unconventional life. Born in 1957 in Bromley, Kent she was brought up in Brixton by her mother, a legal secretary of Scots-Irish descent. Her father was a dispossessed Somali aristocrat. She was always fascinated by this mixed background. Entering the fashion world after school, she designed clothes and modelled before running away to “somewhere near Bath to live on water from streams and eat ferns“. Her idyllic hippy existence ended when she developed septicaemia and she moved back to London. Pursuing a parallel career in music, she sang in jazz bands in Bath and cut her debut single, Silly Billy, a pop-reggae song, under the
