# Re Styles
**Re Styles** was the stage name of Shirley Marie Macleod (1950 – April 17, 2022), an American model, actress, costume designer, dancer, and singer best known as a member of the San Francisco theatrical rock band [The Tubes](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-tubes). She designed the band's stage costumes, danced in its live shows, and sang co-lead with frontman Fee Waybill on signature songs including "Don't Touch Me There" and "Prime Time".[1](https://prairieprince.com/re-styles/) • [2](https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/re-styles-tubes-singer-designer-dies/)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Full name | Shirley Marie Macleod; born 1950, died April 17, 2022, in San Francisco of complications from a stroke, aged 72[1](https://prairieprince.com/re-styles/) |
| Signature recordings | "Don't Touch Me There" (UK Top 30, 1977) and "Prime Time" (UK Top 40, 1979), both duets with Fee Waybill[2](https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/re-styles-tubes-singer-designer-dies/) |
| Album credits | "Funky-pretty vocals" on *Young and Rich* (1976); "vocals" on *Now* (1977), *What Do You Want From Live* (1978), and *Remote Control* (1979)[3](https://www.noise11.com/news/re-styles-of-the-tubes-dies-aged-72-20220421) |
| Film appearances | "Klen's Lover" in Alejandro Jodorowsky's *[The Holy Mountain](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-holy-mountain-1973-film)* (1973); appeared with The Tubes in *Xanadu* (1980)[2](https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/re-styles-tubes-singer-designer-dies/) |
| Life after the band | Landscape gardener in Seattle, also a home remodeler, party planner, and flower arranger[3](https://www.noise11.com/news/re-styles-of-the-tubes-dies-aged-72-20220421) |
## Early life and modeling
Sources disagree on where Macleod was born: some accounts place her birth in the Netherlands, while her obituary and the memorial page maintained by Tubes drummer Prairie Prince state [Fort Campbell](https://www.edgepedia.org/fort-campbell), Kentucky.[1](https://prairieprince.com/re-styles/) She grew up in Seattle, attending Nathan Hale High School, and moved to San Francisco in 1968, entering the city's vibrant arts and music scene.[1](https://prairieprince.com/re-styles/)**Modeling and film.** She worked as a fashion model, appearing in spreads for the Macy's department store and *Vogue*, and later posed for *Playboy* and *[Penthouse](https://www.edgepedia.org/penthouse-magazine)*.[3](https://www.noise11.com/news/re-styles-of-the-tubes-dies-aged-72-20220421)
## The Tubes, 1975 to 1980
She met members of The Tubes in 1975, the year the band released its self-titled debut album, and began working with them as a costume designer.[2](https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/re-styles-tubes-singer-designer-dies/) She then joined the stage act as a dancer and worked her way up to featured and co-lead vocalist, becoming the only woman in an otherwise all-male band.[4](https://redstate.com/jerrywilson/2022/04/26/re-styles-of-the-tubes-passes-away-n556089) • [1](https://prairieprince.com/re-styles/) She had been performing in the band's early theatrical productions "Rock and Roll Hospital" and "Mondo Bondage" by 1974, in the latter appearing as a whip-wielding dominatrix.[1](https://prairieprince.com/re-styles/) • [5](https://nostalgiacentral.com/music/artists-l-to-z/artists-t/tubes/)
**Recorded vocals.** Her recorded debut came on the band's second album, *Young and Rich* (1976), where she was credited with "funky-pretty vocals"; the credit was upgraded to "vocals" on *Now* (1977) and *Remote Control* (1979).[3](https://www.noise11.com/news/re-styles-of-the-tubes-dies-aged-72-20220421) The suggestive duet "Don't Touch Me There", arranged in classic "Wall of Sound" style by [Jack Nitzsche](https://www.edgepedia.org/jack-nitzsche) and co-written by Jane Dornacker, was recorded with Fee Waybill and reached the UK Top 30 in 1977, becoming a favorite of the punk era.[2](https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/re-styles-tubes-singer-designer-dies/) "Prime Time", from the [Todd Rundgren](https://www.edgepedia.org/todd-rundgren)-produced *Remote Control*, was originally recorded with Styles as the sole vocalist; the record company insisted on a duet, so the song was re-cut with Waybill after the album was finished, and it reached the UK Top 40.[4](https://redstate.com/jerrywilson/2022/04/26/re-styles-of-the-tubes-passes-away-n556089) • [2](https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/re-styles-tubes-singer-designer-dies/) She also sang lead on the track "Cathy's Clone".[1](https://prairieprince.com/re-styles/)
**Stage persona.** The Tubes' multimedia shows, which mixed hard rock with parody, bondage imagery, and elaborate props, drew both attention and censorship: the 1977 British tour, featuring Styles's dominatrix act during "Mondo Bondage", got the band banned from some British concert halls.[5](https://nostalgiacentral.com/music/artists-l-to-z/artists-t/tubes/) A 1977 review of the band's performance at London's Hammersmith Odeon described her stage persona as "sometimes glamorous and perverse".[2](https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/re-styles-tubes-singer-designer-dies/) In 1979 she married the band's drummer, Prairie Prince.[3](https://www.noise11.com/news/re-styles-of-the-tubes-dies-aged-72-20220421)
**Departure.** Styles appeared with the band in the 1980 [Olivia Newton-John](https://www.edgepedia.org/olivia-newton-john) musical film *Xanadu*, but left shortly afterwards; her last tour with the band had been in 1979.[2](https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/re-styles-tubes-singer-designer-dies/) • [4](https://redstate.com/jerrywilson/2022/04/26/re-styles-of-the-tubes-passes-away-n556089) Fee Waybill said in a 2019 interview that by the end of that tour she was drinking too much and no longer wanted to tour, and that the band remained in contact with her.[4](https://redstate.com/jerrywilson/2022/04/26/re-styles-of-the-tubes-passes-away-n556089)
## Later life
After leaving The Tubes, Styles worked as a landscape gardener in Seattle and also as a home remodeler, party planner, and flower arranger; her obituary describes her as a renowned floral artist and garden designer.[3](https://www.noise11.com/news/re-styles-of-the-tubes-dies-aged-72-20220421) • [1](https://prairieprince.com/re-styles/) In 2010 she made a one-night guest appearance with the band, singing "Don't Touch Me There".[6](https://www.killuglyradio.com/2011/03/16/the-tubes-re-styles-then-now/) She died in her sleep in San Francisco on April 17, 2022, of complications from a stroke, at the age of 72.[1](https://prairieprince.com/re-styles/)
## Other work and other namesakes
The 1976 single "Awake", the A side of a release by the San Francisco activist group The Nuclear Beauty Parlor, was credited to Re Styles and the Final Rinse, with production funded by the Bay Area impresario Bill Graham.[7](https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/129013) The name Re-Style also belongs to a separate subject: Mathijs Maas (born 1986 in Middelburg, Netherlands), a Dutch hardcore techno producer and DJ associated with the Masters of Hardcore label, who is unrelated to the singer.[8](https://generation.dance/en/artists/re-style/)
## References
1. [Shirley Marie "Re" MacLeod, memorial page, Prairie Prince official site](https://prairieprince.com/re-styles/)
2. [Re Styles, Singer, Performer, And Designer With The Tubes, Dies At 72, uDiscover Music](https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/re-styles-tubes-singer-designer-dies/)
3. [Re Styles of The Tubes Dies Aged 72, Noise11](https://www.noise11.com/news/re-styles-of-the-tubes-dies-aged-72-20220421)
4. [Re Styles of The Tubes Passes Away, RedState](https://redstate.com/jerrywilson/2022/04/26/re-styles-of-the-tubes-passes-away-n556089)
5. [Tubes, The, Nostalgia Central](https://nostalgiacentral.com/music/artists-l-to-z/artists-t/tubes/)
6. [The Tubes – Re Styles, Then & Now, Kill Ugly Radio](https://www.killuglyradio.com/2011/03/16/the-tubes-re-styles-then-now/)
7. [WFMU, Mid-Valley Mutations playlist, November 7, 2023](https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/129013)
8. [Re-Style biography, Generation Dance](https://generation.dance/en/artists/re-style/)
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