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KERRANG NO. 107 (NOV 14 ’85 JOHN PARR cover, WASP (3 pages Blind in Texas), FAR CORPORATION, WAYSTED, RUSH (4 pages Grace Under Pressure album, Iron Maidens Adrian Smith reviews albums + singles, full page of W.O.W (Wendy O Williams) breaking a TV whilst one tit is totally out of her leather bra.
55-page rock & metal magazine, issue number 107 from November 14-27th, features a 3-page article with superb colour picture, also includes a superb front cover photograph taken by Ross Halfin!
“”Tour News-UFO moves Hanley gig to Exeter”” Note LA Secrets gig news, “”Mayhem – UFO press party for Misdemeanor release”” Bus accident on way back…)
KERRANG number 107 mint condition
Date of issue: Nov 14 – 27 1985
Cover -John Parr
Featured artists:
Phil Lynott Thin Lizzy w/photo, Scorpions w/photo, Yes w/photo
Gary Holton (Heavy Metal Kids) -0.5pg obituary
Persian Risk -1 pg photo w/news
Rush -3.5pg interview w/photos – Alex Lifeson
WASP -3 pg interview w/photos
Aerosmith -1 pg review w/photo, Jack Starr’s Burning Star, Tokyo Blade, ZZ Top: Afterburner, Marionette, UFO, Tarzen, Phil Lynott: Nineteen, Powerstation, Kiss, Heart: Never, The Cure: Close to me, Sting, Haze: the ember, The Escape club, Gene loves Jezebel, Bryan Adams & Tina Turner, Pallas: Throwing Stones at the window, The Cramps: Can your pussy do the dog, Survivor: Burning Heart, Queen: One vision, Marillion: Heart of Lothian
Stevie Ray Vaughan -1 pg review w/illustration
ZZ Top -0.5pg review w/photo
Adrian Smith (Iron Maiden) -1.5 pg guest reviewer
John Parr -3pg interview w/photos
Far Corporation -0.5pg interview w/photo
Comic strip: Lisa Dominique
Wendy O Williams -1pg photo w/text (she is getting ready to destroy a TV on stage, and one of her boobs is out of her leather bra), Iron Maiden Live after death album and video VHS release party w. photo
Lemmy -1 pg photo w/bass review
Waysted -0.5pg live review w/photo, Judie Tzuke -0.5pg live review w/photo, Silent running, The Icicle Works, LA secrets, Tysondog, Bon Jovi w. photo, Alaska, Balaam and the angel, Fur Bible
The Alarm -2 pg interview w/photo.
Patricia Morrison (Bags, Legal Weapon, The Gun Club, Fur Bible, The Sisters of Mercy, The Damned)
CHECK:
MARILLION: Heart of Lothian 7″. Chelsea Monday (Live). Check videos.
PALLAS: Arrive Alive LP. Marillion, Pendragon, etc. Check samples
PALLAS: Paris Is Burning 12″ Great prog. 1983 Highly recommended. Check audio
Bryan ADAMS: Reckless PROMO LP. Classic. Most of his hits are included here. Check samples
Bryan ADAMS: Reckless LP. Classic. Most of his hits are included here. Check samples
HEART: Never 7″ + These Dreams (7″ beautiful gatefold with killer pictures). Check videos
ZZ TOP: Afterburner LP 1985. Check samples, videos. Every single song is amazing! 10/10
HEAVY METAL KIDS: She’s No Angel 7″ classic 1976. Check video. Free for vinyl orders of £35+
CHECK:………detailed LIST OF Rush below…
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RUSH Permanent Waves LP Classic , check videos. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
RUSH: Hemispheres [Gatefold LP with lyrics and pictures. Includes poster]
RUSH: S/T , 1st, debut LP (with protective plastic bag) check videos
HEAVY LP West German compilation with shiny cover Black Sabbath, Def Leppard, Krokus, Rush, etc.
Rush: A show of hands VHS. The video comprises an entirely different recording to this of the 2LP
RUSH: Hold your Fire LP + inner with lyrics & great artistic photo. Check videos
RUSH: Grace Under Pressure LP + inner with lyrics etc. Check videos.
RUSH: Signals LP. UK. Comes with protective sleeve (vinyl near mint). Check videos & samples.
RUSH: 2112 LP Gatefold. England / UK pressing. Conceptual masterpiece! s.
Sounds Like A Good Album To Us – The Sounds Album Vol. II. Vinyl LP, Promo, Compilation
RUSH: Subdivisions 12″ w. Red Barchetta Jacobs ladder Check video
RUSH: Spirit of Radio 12″ [(2) The Trees, (3) Working Man] Check video
RUSH: The big MONEY 12″ + Territories + Red Sector A (Live). Check video
RUSH: Subdivisions (Edit) Radio DJ promotion copy 7″ + Red Barchetta.
RUSH: Tom Sawyer 7″ + A Passage To Bangkok NO PICTURE SLEEVE. Free for vinyl orders of £30+
RUSH: Closer to the Heart 7″ + Bastille Day + The Temples of Syrinx. Check videos.
RUSH: The Body Electric 7″ + The Analog Kid. In a glossy picture sleeve. Check videos
RUSH: Closer to the Heart 7″ + The Trees (LIVE). uk 1981 rush 1. Check videos.
Rush: Hold your Fire T-Shirt. 1987 original vintage directly from the Rush Fan club
Rush: Roll the Bones T-Shirt with 1991 1992 Tour dates. From the Rush Fan club
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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