Biography

Re Styles, who recorded and toured with The Tubes and contributed to their unique stage attire, was born Shirley Macleod and she had modeled in "Penthouse" and "Playboy", before moving on to appear in Alejandro Jodorowsky’s film The Holy Mountain (1973) and Sun Ra’s science fiction film Space Is the Place (1974).

She met The Tubes at an art school show and quickly fell in with the San Francisco-based troupe. By 1975, she was coordinating their clothes and wild stage maneuvers, while appearing onstage herself. In one memorable take, she appeared as heiress Patty Hearst. She also would dress in leather outfits and dance suggestively with lead singer Fee Waybill during the fan-favorite song "Mondo Bondage."

Styles sang on the band’s first U.S. charting single, duetting with Waybill on "Don’t Touch Me There," and later on "Prime Time" from the 1979 album Remote Control. The latter single reached No. 34 in the UK. Listen to "Prime Time" above.

She married Tubes drummer Prairie Prince in 1979, after living with him since 1973, and until the early 1990s.

Styles appeared in the 1980 film Xanadu (1980) with The Tubes, but stopped performing with the group by the time they released their breakthrough fifth album The Completion Backward Principle the following year.

Following her time in The Tubes, Styles worked as a landscape gardener in Seattle, as well as a home remodeller, party planner, and flower arranger.
- IMDb mini biography by: rs