KERRANG NO. 26 October 1982 RARE Rush on cover (Alex Lifeson), Tommy Bolin, Gillan, Lemmy Wendy O Williams, Who, Marc Bolan, Runaways, Diamond Head

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KERRANG NO. 26 October 7-20 1982 Rush, Tommy Bolin, Genesis, Gillan, Bow Wow, Lemmy, Who, Marc Bolan, Runaways, Diamond Head

KERRANG number 26  Date of issue: October 7 – 20 1982
Cover – Rush

Featured artists:
Rush – 5 pgs (photos and interview) Geddy Lee, Neil Peart, Alex Lifeson all get a page each with a photo
Lita Ford news regarding the first solo album and impressive photo
Gillan: Magic, Twisted Sister: Under the blade, Spys: Spys, Budgie: Deliver us from Evil, Spider: Rock n’ Roll Gypsies
Bow Wow – 1 pg photo w/text VERY impressive photo
Toto – 1 pg interview w/photo
The Runaways – 2.5pgs (photos and text)
Tommy Bolin – The Tommy Bolin Story (6 pgs inc centrespread)
Full page ad of Lemmy from motorhead promoting the Kerrang T-Shirt
Diamond Head – 2 pgs interview w/photos
Gillan shooting the “living for the city” video – 1 pg photo w/text
Tygers of Pan Tang / Tytan, Girlschool (San Antonio Texas), The Who (Nec, Birmingham), Saxon (Apollo)
Neat records, interview with the CEO Dave Wood
Magnum, Rox, Tank, Billy Squier, Budgie: Bored with Russia, Battleaxe, Stormchild
Marc Bolan – 1 pg photo w/text
Lemmy/Wendy O Williams – 1 pg interview w/photo
The Who – 2 pgs photos and interview
ELP
Genesis – 1 pg photo w/text

CHECK:

BUDGIE: Bored With Russia (picture disc) 7″ + Dont Cry. Check audio

Billy SQUIRE Emotions in Motion LP (Promo) 1982 w. Queen (Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor). Check sample

Y&T + Billy SQUIRE: Blue 7″ Flexy disc. Contains 3 Y& T songs and 3 Billy SQUIRE Songs.

Y&T (Hell Or High Water + Black Tiger + Forever) + Billy Squier (Everybody Wants You + Emotions In Motion) FLEXI DISC 7″

ROX: Violent Breed LP Classic album. Includes Love Ya Like a Diamond. Check audio. Highly recommended.

ROX: Krazy Kutz 12″ Great NWOBHM 1983 on Music For Nations. Check audio

SPIDER: Rock n Roll Gypsies LP. Very entertaining band, check live audio sample

SPIDER: Rock n Roll Gypsies LP 1983 NEAR MINT VINYL. Top Nwobhm n Roll. Uplifting, a la Vardis., every song

BUDGIE: Deliver Us from Evil LP. 1982 Classic Hard Rock

SPYS : Behind Enemy Lines LP. 2 ex-members of Foreigner. Check video.

RUSH: Signals LP. U.S.A Check videos & samples.

RUSH: Signals LP. UK. Comes with protective sleeve (vinyl near mint). Check videos & samples.

Rush Signals tour programme 1982 absolute MINT CONDITION

Rush: Signals crop top T-Shirt New world tour ’82 -’83. Original vintage directly from the Rush Fan club. Check video on crop tops & Rush videos too.


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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