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KERRANG NO. 60 January 26th – February 8th, 1984, David Coverdale Whitesnake, Saxon, Rox, Iron Maiden, Thor, Hellion, Van Hallen, Queen
Cover = Whitesnake Page 38 has 1/4 of it missing (Page 37 has an ad), Page 18 has 1/20 of the page missing. Otherwise all other pages are in excellent condition.
Check exclusive video showing all pages
Check exclusive video showing all pages
Big Features = Whitesnake, Iron Maiden, Saxon, Rox, Van Halen, Thor, Hellion, Carmine, Queen
Small Features = with pic
Ted Nugent, Kiss, Wendy o Williams, Judas Priest, Vandenberg, Heavy Load, Lee Aaron, Nazareth
Adverts = Slade, Judas Priest, Scorpions, Manowar, Metallica, Anthrax, The Rods, Saxon, Accept, Schenker, Jimmy Page
Judas Priest: Defenders of the faith, Saxon: Crusader, Hellion, Harlequin, IQ, Tsunami, Vandenberg: Heading for the storm, Heavy Load: Stronger than Evil, Axe Witch: The lord of the flies, Metal Battle, Touch: Touch.
38 Special, Pat Benatar, Van Halen: Jump, Queen, Accept: Restless & Wild, Jess Cox: One in a million, Eloy, Meat Loaf, Emerson: Something Special, Whitesnake: Give me more time, Virgin Steele, Manowar
Featured artists:
Saxon – 3 pg interview w/photos
Rox – 2 pg interview w/photos – Kevin Kozak
Dave Lee Roth (Van Halen) – 1 pg photo
Iron Maiden – 4 pg interview w/photos – Steve Harris, Bruce Dickinson
Whitesnake – 4 pg interview w/photos – David Coverdale
Thor with Pantera– 2 pg interview w/photo
Hellion – 2.5 pg interview w/photo
Concerts: Rush (Montreal); Grim Reaper; Heaven. (Samson concert review -page 38- is cut out and missing)
Carmine Appice – 2 pg interview w/photo
Michael Schenker + Kate Kestrel – 1 pg photo
Queen – 1 pg photo
Jimmy Page + Roland – 1 pg photo
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:
Judas Priest T-Shirt Defenders of the Faith original vintage. Front AND back. Ultra RARE
VANDENBERG: s.t, 1st, debut LP w. Adrian Vandenberg (Whitesnake). Check video HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
VANDENBERG: Promo s.t, 1st, debut LP Promo w. Adrian Vandenberg (Whitesnake). Check video
VANDENBERG: Alibi LP 1985 Whitesnake guitarist. Check videos + review video.
ACCEPT: Restless n Wild LP [Picture disc album. All songs are truly excellent] Check videos
Jess Cox: Third Step 1984 T-shirt Ultra rare N.W.O.B.H.M (Tygers of Pan Tang singer)
Jess Cox: Third Step 1984 T-shirt Ultra rare N.W.O.B.H.M (Tygers of Pan Tang singer)
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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