2003-05-09

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Greil Marcus - Are you ready to fly?

Punk promised that you could become a new person. You could live a new life in a new world - and to live in it you needed a new name. It was late 1976 in London when 15-year-old schoolgirl saxophonist Susan Whitby answered an ad placed by a would-be "punk" band in the now defunct Melody Maker. The band turned out to be X-ray Spex, led by one Poly Styrene, who had left "Marion Elliot" on the sidewalk. Susan Whitby became Lora Logic.