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KERRANG – No.143 Dave Coverdale (Whitesnake) cover, U2, Slayer, Magnum, Judas Priest, Bryan Adams, W.O.W Wendy O Williams.
near mint condition.
Great photos in this issue….
Date of issue: Apr 2 – 15 1987 Cover – Whitesnake
Featured artists:
Fastway w/photo Fast Eddie Clark Lea Hart, Keel w/photo, Judas Priest w/photo, John Parr w/photo,
Slave Raider w/photo
Salem w/photo
Shy – 2 pg interview w/photo
Bryan Adams – 0.8pg review w/photo Into The Fire Kerrang album review,
Spitfire – First attack LP Kerrang album review
S.p.A, Vulcano, U2: Joshua Tree, Hawk, London: Don’t cry wolf, VoiVod, The Cherry Bomz, Raw Power, Septic Death, Attitude Adjustment, Poison Idea, Pretty Maids: Future World, Esquire, Martee Lebow, Patty Smyth,
Lee Aaron – 0.7pg review w/photo
Manowar Kerrang comic strip
Whitesnake – 3.5pg interview w/photo
Wendy O Williams – 2 pg centrespread w/interview
Metallica (Kirk Hammet) – 1 pg photo w/text …..Kirk Hammet (Metallica guitarist) with his mother!
Vinnie Moore – 1 pg interview w/photo
Kuni – 1 page
U2, Steve Miller band, Chris Thompson, Lou Gramm: Midnight Blue, Alice Cooper, Tigertailz, Peter Gabriel, Bon Jovi, Europe, Lee Aaron: Only Human, Flletwood Mac, Reo Speedwagon, Starship, Hey Lewis and the news, Arena, Bryan Adams, Fields of Nephilim, The Mission
Malice – 1 pg interview w/photo – Mick Zane
Nitelyne w/photo
Betrayal – 0.6pg review w/photo
Berlin (Town & County Club, London)
WASP / Slayer / Raven (Capitol Theatre, New Jersey) w/ great Kerry King photo
Murphy’s Law (The Stone, San Fransisco)
Magnum / Heavy Pettin – 0.7pg photo & live review
Malice (L’Amour East, New York) w/photo
Alice Cooper (Kaiser Centre, Oakland)
Drive Shaft (Wellington, London)
Brighton Rock (Cat Club, New York)
La Paz (Marquee, London)
The Cult – 3.5pg interview w/photo
Concert Reviews: La Paz, Brighton Rock, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand the 11 Italian Heavy Metal band invasion of London UK at the Hammersmith Odeon 1987 : Life Banquet, Pechino Politic, Futuritmi, Crossbones, Black Swan, Fil De Ferro, Touch of Devil etc. the “Italian Rock Invasion Festival” at the Hammersmith Odeon in London show was transmitted by the Italian TV in the transmission Rock a Mezzanotte. Here is a list of some of the songs these bands performed on the night:
-Pechino Politic Closer To Me 4:28
–Rose Garden Rose Garden 3:34
–Touch Of Devil Metal Power 3:45
–Mystic Design Starting From Zero 4:15
–Fil Di Ferro Hurricanes 5:10 heavy metal band, born in Turin in 1979. 1st album in 1986 last in 2012.
–Life Banquet Smile 4:25
–Futuritmi L’Aviatore 5:35
–Overload Blue Snake 3:40
–Crossbones The Snowman 6:30 from Ventimiglia (Imperia), Ligury. 1st album in 1989 last in 2016.
–Micco Beni Girl From The Rodeo 3:40
–Black Swan Metal Roads 6:33
Kerrang – the longest running and most famous UK Rock and Heavy Metal magazine. These mags have now become ultra collectable pieces of music memorabilia and have featured some of the biggest and smallest names in Rock/HM. Buy a piece of rock history today!!!
check and buy:
Whitesnake: Reckless Heart + Farewell tour T-shirt. David Coverdale Original (official) merchandise
David COVERDALE: Whitesnake 1977 + Northwinds 1978. Tape cassette, 2 album compilation, 78 minutes
WHITESNAKE: Ready and Willing 1980 [Cassette tape]. Fool for Your Loving. Check videos
WHITESNAKE: Ain’t No Love In The Heart Of the City (Special 12″) Check Video
WHITESNAKE: Come an Get it LP. Original 1981 YUGOSLAVIAN Croatian. Check videos
WHITESNAKE: Aint No Love In The Heart Of the City 7″ Check video
The YOUNG & MOODY BAND: These Eyes 7″ WHITESNAKE guitarists. Song used in a Levi Jeans commercial.
WHITESNAKE: Here I Go Again 7″ + Bloody Luxury. [original version] BP416. Check videos.
WHITESNAKE: Dont break my heart again 7″ No picture sleeve. FREE £0 for vinyl orders of £15+
WHITESNAKE: Snakebite 7″ [Ultra Rare, Black vinyl, never on picture sleeve] Check videos!
WHITESNAKE: Snakebite 7″ [Rare, white vinyl, textured picture sleeve] Check videos!
WHITESNAKE: Fool For Your Loving 7″ + Side Mean Business + Don’t mess with me. Check video
WHITESNAKE: Dont break my heart again 7″ + Child of Babylon. Check videos
WHITESNAKE: Guilty of Love 7″ + Gambler. 1983 David Coverdale in handcuffs! Check video.
WHITESNAKE Ready An’ Willing CD. EMI / Fame edition 1989 (RARE). Check video
WHITESNAKE: Saints & Sinners CD 1982. EMI / Fame. Here I Go Again. Check video
SLAVE RAIDER: Make Some Noise 1988 Promo 7″. Special numbered souvenir pressing
Lee AARON: Metal Queen LP 1984 Roadrunner. The sexy Canadian Queen of Heavy Metal. Check videos.
Lou GRAMM: Midnight Blue 7″ PROMO (Rare solo promo. Foreigner singer. PROMO) Check video.
Lou GRAMM: Ready Or Not LP. FACTORY SEALED. Foreigner + Shadow King singer. + videos
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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