80s Music Central News

Ari Up [born Arianna Daniele Forster], 48, of the U.K. punk act The Slits died of cancer on Oct. 20th in Los Angeles. The Slits released their first single in 1979 and would release two albums during the 1980s before splitting up in 1982. Ari Up and Tessa Pollitt reformed the band with new members in 2005, released an EP in 2006 and released a new album, Trapped Animal, in 2009. The group's final work was a video for the song, "Lazy Slam," from the album. Ari was John Lydon's stepdaughter.