Poly Styrene : The John Robb interview (from 2008)

Poly Stryrne in depth interview with John Robb where she talks about the ups and downs of her whole career. (interview conducted in two halves - that's why the sound changes!)

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00:10 early music taste
00:45 school
00:50 acting school
01:17 bath jazz singing
02:40 1974 live on the land hippy eating ferns and drinking in streams
03:50 1975 came back to London
04:00 worked with session musicians on songs
00:33 early slower demo of oh bondage with Gary Moore
06:40 worked with GT Moore and reggae guitars ‘I liked reggae as well'
07:30 worked in fashion
10:22 saw the sex Pistols on her birthday supporting Budgie on hastings Pier July 3rd 1976
11:30 Jon Savage took me to punk gigs in London
11:50 first gig
12:26 early songs
16:00 Poly own style and clothes
17:10 unique lyrics
18:05 bathing in streams back to nature hippy mid-seventies
19:00 consumerism
19:48 Oh Bondage about
23:21The World Turns Dayglo explained
27:27 life in the band in the punk era
28:37 the breakdown
32:20Gunter Grove scene with Johnny Rotten
33:50 Sid playing with his knife
38:00 breakdown - saw the flying saucer
41:00 what rest of band did after X Ray Spex
43:00 deeper explanation of the breakdown and the UFO
44:57 hare Krishna
47:00 Lets Submerge explained
54:00 George Harrison
58:00 played Glastonbury with the Hare Krishnas
62:00 Celeste gets born
70:00 unlikely punk rock icon
71:00 Sex Pistols in Hastogs and punk rock
74:00 what makes a song great/The Beatles