{"id":11964,"date":"2013-10-10T10:11:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T09:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=11964"},"modified":"2013-10-10T10:29:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T09:29:25","slug":"polyfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=11964","title":{"rendered":"Polyfest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads2\/592013-10-10-11-0959.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads2\/422013-10-10-11-0042.jpg\"\/ width=\"600\" ><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads2\/172013-10-10-10-5717.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads2\/012013-10-10-10-5101.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads2\/412013-10-10-10-5441.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>By Parasuram das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Food For All band took to the stage last Saturday at the famous Half Moon, for a sold out gig in honour of a wonderful devotee and singer Maharani Devi or as the world knew her Polystyrene, singer with X-ray Specs. Maharani left her body a few years ago due to cancer, but she had a great positive effect on millions of young people. She kept her spiritual life always at the forefront of her life, she is greatly missed by so many.<\/p>\n<p>Parasuram das: HG Maharani dd passed away last Monday 25th April. Known to millions of people as Poly Styrene from the band X-ray Spex. Her body was battling cancer.<\/p>\n<p>She was a massive influence on the early 80&#8217;s generation, and a lovely devotee. She was certainly a big influence in my life. Turned me into a rebel with a low tolerance capacity for hypocrisy. When she became a devotee in 1981 we all went &#8216;wow&#8217;. There must be something real in Hare Krishna.<\/p>\n<p>I have put a little video together from her interviews on channel 4.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/22968257?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads2\/482013-10-10-10-5948.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\nPhoto credit: Danny Clifford\/WENN<\/p>\n<p>The former X-Ray Spex frontwoman and real name Marianne Elliott-Said, Poly Styrene opened up about her breast cancer diagnosis earlier this year but sadly passed away on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A statement posted on her official Twitter feed reads, &#8220;We can confirm that the beautiful Poly Styrene, who has been a true fighter, won her battle on Monday evening to go to higher places.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The rocker formed her band after watching the Sex Pistols perform on her 18th birthday and X-Ray Spex gained a place in punk history with their album &#8220;Germ Free Adolescents&#8221; and hit track &#8220;Oh Bondage Up Yours!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Following the release of her solo album &#8220;Translucence&#8221; in 1980, Poly Styrene stepped out of the spotlight to join the Hare Krishna movement, occasionally re-emerging onto the music scene. She released her third solo album, &#8220;Generation Indigo&#8221;, last month.<\/p>\n<p>Boy George has led the tributes to the star, writing on his Twitter.com page, &#8220;I was a fan of Poly before I got to know her, she was a Krishna follower too, oh bless you Polly you will be missed! Legend!&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads2\/102013-10-10-11-1110.jpg\"\/><strong>By Parasuram das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The Food For All band took to the stage last Saturday at the famous Half Moon, for a sold out gig in honour of a wonderful devotee and singer Maharani Devi or as the world knew her Polystyrene, singer with X-ray Specs<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iskcon-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}