In May 1978, X-Ray Spex frontwoman Poly Styrene was asked whether she was punk’s new sex symbol. “If anybody tried to make me one I’d shave my head tomorrow,” she retorted. A few weeks later, she shaved her head. Just 20 at the time, the X-Ray Spex frontwoman was mixed-race and working-class, with braces on her teeth. She wrote songs about consumerism, synthetic food and genetic engineering, all topics still relevant today, yet the newspapers mostly wrotehellip;read more raquo;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;View Gallery (16 images)nbsp;