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Siouxsie and the Banshees PosTerS

Siouxsie and the Banshees were a British rock band that formed in 1976. Led by the singer Siouxsie Sioux and the bassist Steven Severin, the band's only constant members, the Banshees formed in the wake of the Punk scene and soon became one of the major bands in the post-punk movement. Their eclectic music influenced a large range of very diverse bands over the years amongst them The Cure, Tricky and more recently Lcd Soundsystem. The group released a total of eleven studio albums from 1978 to 1995. The Banshees remain cult today.

Siouxsie courted much controversy in the band's early days with her dress, often wearing bondage clothes and fetish wear. She was also heavily criticized for wearing swastika armbands, although she always maintained that this was intended to be for shock value and not for political reasons. (To avoid controversy, she wrote two songs : "Metal Postcard" to the memory of the anti-Nazi artist John Heartfield and later the single "Israel").

Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones' infamous "you dirty bastard...what a fuckin' rotter?" comment during the band's December 1976 interview with Bill Grundy, which helped to fuel their notoriety, was sparked when Grundy attempted to "chat up" Siouxsie on prime time TV.

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