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KERRANG – No.69 ( Dee Snider Twisted Sister Cover, Fastway, Motorhead, Scorpions, Alice Cooper, Def Leppard )
KERRANG number 69 near mint condition.
Date of issue: May 31 – Jun 13 1984
Cover – Twisted Sister
Featured artists:
Fastway – 2 pg interview w/photos
Wendy O Williams – 1 pg album review w/photo
Wrathchild: Stakk Attakk
Frankie and the knockouts
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Scorpions – 1 pg photo w/text Rudy Schenker
Twisted Sister – 3 pg interview w/photos – Dee Snider
Rock Goddess / Girlschool – 2 pg photos
Aerosmith – 1pg photo w/text
Wrathchild – 2 pg interview w/photos
Def Leppard – 1 pg photo w/news Rick Allen
The People that time forgot- 3 pg articles w/photos + album covers
Rick Springfield, Mr. Mister, TNT: Back on the road, Rod Stewart: Infatuation, Snowy White, Bulldozer, Hellhammer, Rush: The body electric, Gary Moore: Don’t let me be misunderstood, Chrome Molly: You said, Twisted Sister, WASP: Animal (fuck like a beast), Ozzy Osbourne: So tired, Fastway: All fired up, Wendy O Williams, Joan Jett.
Van Halen – 0.5pg review w/photo
Bon Jovi – 1 pg photo w/live review
Motorhead – 2 pg photos w/live review
Alice Cooper – 2 pg interview w/photos
Neil – Nigel Planer
Thor with Rock Goddess
Concerts: Van Halen; Heavy Pettin; Camel; Larry Miller; New Torpedoes / Shy; Motorhead / Young Blood / Fist; Bon Jovi
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:
W.A.S.P: Animal (Fuck like a beast) 7″ + Show no Mercy. £0 FREE for vinyl orders of £80+
OZZY OSBOURNE: So Tired 7″ + Bark At The Moon (great Live recording)
RUSH: The Body Electric 7″ + The Analog Kid. In a glossy picture sleeve. Check videos
Rod Stewart: Infatuation 12″ E.P vinyl. Great song. Check video
FRANKE AND THE KNOCKOUTS: s.t LP [A.O.R PROMO LP] Check videos.
WENDY O WILLIAMS: Deffest! and Baddest! LP PROMO! Rock based rap + hip hop! Check video
CHROME MOLLY: Angst LP Great anthemic UK Hard Rock, Heavy Metal. Check audio samples
CHROME MOLLY: Take me, Im Yours 12″ One of Britains best-kept secrets.
TWISTED SISTER: Ruff Cutts EP first EP, 1982, Secret Records 4 songs Check VIDEO
TWISTED SISTER: You Cant Stop Rock N Roll 12″ (3 unreleased, unavailable elsewhere songs) VIDEO.
TWISTED SISTER: The Kids Are Back 12″ (incl. 3 live songs) 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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