KERRANG No.39 APR 1983 Near mint condition ZZ Top on cover, Saxon, Journey, Twisted Sister, Dio, WASP, Krokus, Plasmatics, Ratt, Armored Saint, Warlord, Exciter

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KERRANG No.39 [APR 7-20 1983 ZZ Top Cover, Saxon, Journey, Twisted Sister, Dio, Krokus, Steve Hackett, L.A scene special (w. W.A.S.P, Ratt, Steeler, Armored Saint, Obsession, Warlord, Golden Earring, Exciter, Pali Gap, Nightwing, Plasmatics Wendy O Williams  (W.o.W) with tits out (live picture), Spider carries on w/o UFO~UFO adds dates to tour”)

April 7-20th 1983 UK 47-page rock & metal magazine, features a 6-page article with superb colour pictures, also includes a superb front cover photograph taken by Ross Halfin!

KERRANG 39 [1983 ZZ Top Cover, Saxon, Journey, Twisted Sister, Dio, Krokus, Steve Hackett, w. W.A.S.P, Ratt, Steeler, Armored Saint, Obsession, Warlord, Exciter, Pali Gap, Nightwing, Wendy O Williams (W.o.W) with tits out

Date of issue: April 7 – 20 1983     Near mint condition (all pages mint apart from the front cover page that has a small writing)

Cover – ZZ Top

Featured artists:
ZZ Top – 5.5pgs interview w/photos

Diamond Head, Anvil

Pink Floyd: the final cut, Saxon: Power and the Glory, Bryan Adams: cuts like a knife, Nightwing: Stand up & be counted, Quiet Riot: Metal Health,

Twisted Sister: I am (I’m me), Styx: Mr Roboto, Goldsmith: life is killing me, Fastway: Easy Livin’, John Sykes: Please don’t leave me, etc.
Steve Hackett – 1 pg interview w/photo
Dio – 2 pgs interview and photo
WASP – 1 pg photo w/text, Ratt, Steeler with Yngwie Malmsteen (1st mention), Armored Saint, Obsession – 1 pg photo w/text, Warlord – 1 pg photo w/text,
Krokus – Headhunter centrespread. Central pages – Krokus – Headhunter

Striktly for Konnoisseurs
Golden Earring (George Kooymans) – 1 pg photo w/interview

Armed & Ready: Exciter,

Armed & Ready: Pali Gap,
Manfred Mann – 1.5 pg interview w/photo – Somewhere in Africa
Nightwing – 2 pgs interview and photo – Gordon Rowley
Concerts: Thin Lizzy, Wendy and the Rocketts, Mercyful Fate, 720 / Sortilege, Terraplane, Caffrey, Framed, Missing Persons
Twisted Sister – 2pgs interview & photo – Dee Snider
Heavy Load: Heavy Load live (video cassette)

Journey – 3 pgs interview and photos – Steve Perry, Neal Schon

Saxon – 3pg interview w/photos
Plasmatics – 1 pg (photo w/text) Back Cover: Plasmatics – Wendy O Williams

Armored Saint Ultra RARE 1984 Tour shirt, SIGNED March Of the Saint long sleeve

WARLORD: and the Cannons of Destruction have begun LP original 1984 Metal Blade Records MBR 1029, Enigma Records ‎E 1112. Check video + audio (whole album)


………detailed LIST OF ZZtop below…

British UK Metal Hammer October 1986 no. 10 RARE – HARD TO FIND. ZZ TOP, IRON MAIDEN, MOTORHEAD, STATUS QUO, MAGNUM + 5 Posters

ZZ TOP: AFTERBURNER LP. Check samples

ZZ TOP: Velcro fly 12″ (extended)//(dance mix) check video

ZZ TOP: Eliminator LP Mega classiccheck videos £0 FREE FOR vinyl ORDERS OF £25

ZZ TOP: Fandango LP. original U.S.A LP, 1975 mix. Check videos

ZZ TOP: Legs Metal mix 12″ Check video

ZZ TOP: Legs (edit) + Bad girl (worth buying just for the cover). Check videos

Monsters Of Rock Festival programme 1983 Whitesnake, Meat Loaf, ZZ Top, Twisted Sister, Dio, Diamond Head. Check videos

KERRANG 48, Near mint condition 1983. ZZ Top cover, DONINGTON SPECIAL, WHITESNAKE, METALLICA, BLACK SABBATH, MEAT LOAF, DIO, TWISTED SISTER

ZZ TOP: Double Back 7″ + Planet of women. Check video

KERRANG NO.19 July 1982, OK condition, ZZ Top cover, Brian May / Queen, Raven, Venom, Budgie, Marillion, B.O.C

ZZ TOP: First album + Rio Grande Mud CD (2 albums in 1 disc). Free for CD orders of £55+

ZZTOP: Rough boy CD + Viva Las Vegas (12″ Remix), Velcro Fly (Extended Mix), Doubleback (AOR Mix). 23 minutes. Check videos

Pink Floyd: The final cut LP [gatefold, UK]

Bryan ADAMS: Cuts like a knife LP 1983. Check videos

STYX: Kilroy Was Here LP Best Styx LP, a rock opera /concept album. Check videos. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

GOLDSMITH: Life is Killing Me 20th Anniversary special Edition w.unreleased songs CD. Great N.W.O.B.H.M. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

GOLDSMITH: Life is Killing Me + Music Man 7″ ORIGINAL. NWOBHM Check audio

FASTWAY Easy Livin 12″. 3 tracks (+ bouns). Check video. ex Motorhead guitarist Fast Eddie Clarke, Pete Way (UFO / Waysted).

PRETTY MAIDS: Please Don’t Leave Me PROMO CD with different artwork. A John Sykes / Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy) cover. Check video

 

W.O.W Wendy O Williams:

In life and death, Wendy O. believed in three basic tenets: Never Compromise, Never Surrender, and (most importantly), Posers Get Lost. The Plasmatics, her crazed punk-metal shock rock wrecking ball, was the supersonic distillation of her Nietzsche-like belief system, and they blazed a trail of chaos and mayhem through the 70’s and 80’s that nobody could touch. Not Alice Cooper, not the Sex Pistols, nobody. Somebody had to be the wildest rocker of ‘em all, and that somebody was Wendy O. Williams.

Wendy Orleans Williams was born in Rochester, NY. She grew up on a farm, and ran away from home at age 16. In the early 70’s, she wound up in Europe, where she started a career as a stripper. She moved back to Noo Yawk and met up with filth hound Rod Swenson, who first employed her as a dancer, nude model, and one-time porn star – she had a memorable bit part in Candy Goes to Hollywood (1979) – before ol’ Rod had the brilliant idea of setting this powderkeg to blow live, on stage, with a full-fledged rock n’ roll band. And so, the Plasmatics were born.

“We’re about violence and destruction, destroying objects and material possessions of our greedy society”, Wendy said back in ’79, and she meant it, man. Early Plasmatics gigs featured exploding televisions, hangings, blood, tits, electrocutions, and searing, rip-roaring punk rock’n’roll. They were signed to Stiff, released the seminal New Hope for the Wretched in 1980, and then started doing stuff like blowing up cars on TV. There were obscenity busts, there was filth and fury, there was magic and madness. Wendy had an insatiable need for speed and excitement, which manifested itself in rock n’ roll-as-shock-performance-art. Fire, destruction, explosives, public nudity, she did it all, baby.The Plasmatics were formed by Yale University graduate and radical anti-artist Rod Swenson with Wendy O. Williams. The band was a controversial group known for wild live shows that broke countless taboos as part of an assault on American popular culture.
In addition to chainsawing guitars, blowing up speaker cabinets and sledgehammering television sets, Williams and the Plasmatics blew up automobiles live on stage. Williams was arrested multiple times and was seriously beaten in Milwaukee by the Milwaukee police before being charged with public indecency. The group was banned in London, where they were labeled as anarchists, and riots followed in Zürich and elsewhere.
The Plasmatics’ career spanned five studio albums.The core of the band consisted of vocalist/front person Wendy O. Williams, guitarists Richie Stotts and Wes Beech, and manager Rod Swenson. Bassists and drummers rotated frequently over the years
In 1988, it was officially announced that Wendy and the Plasmatics were “going on hiatus.” Rod later told Classic Rock magazine that they both knew they had stopped.
Wendys last performance of a Plasmatics song occurred due to the prompting of Joey Ramone. She performed “Masterplan” one final time with Richie Stotts, when Richies band opened for the Ramones on New Years Eve, 1988.

She went solo in 1984, releasing the Gene Simmons-produced WOW, which is a spectacular record. She followed that with the monstrous, live-without-a-net Kommander of Kaos and also starred in the camp classic women-in-prison flick Reform School Girls.
She essentially retired from rock’n’roll in the early 90s and moved to Connecticut, devoting most of her time to animal advocacy. In 1993, she attempted suicide for the first time by hammering a knife into her own chest, which is, I mean, that is the most Wendy O. way to go possible. She was discovered and rescued by Rod Swenson, but for Wendy, the die was already cast. On Monday, April 6th, 1998, Wendy O., the Metal Priestess, the Queen of Shock Rock, the Kommander of Kaos, the baddest rock’n’roll motherfucker who ever lived, took a walk into the woods near her home. She sat on a rock and fed some squirrels, then she took a pistol and shot herself in the head.  In a press release on April 7th, Swenson wrote that Wendy had been talking about suicide for nearly four years, because she “felt, in effect, she’d peaked, and didn’t care to live in a world in which she was uncomfortable, and below peak any longer.”
Wendy did it her way, right until the end. She even decided when the end was going to happen. What a bad-ass.

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