The Plasmatics in Concert at the Agora Ballroom in Atlanta July 24
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.
Wendy O. Williams of the Plasmatics during The Plasmatics in Concert
Wendy O. Williams. Wendy Orlean Williams (May 28, 1949 - April 6, 1998) was an American singer, best known as the lead singer of the punk rock band Plasmatics. She was noted for her onstage theatrics, which included partial nudity, exploding equipment, firing a shotgun, and chainsawing guitars. [1] Performing her own stunts in videos, [2] she.
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Explore Wendy O. Williams & the Plasmatics's discography including top tracks, albums, and reviews. Learn all about Wendy O. Williams & the Plasmatics on AllMusic.
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April 9, 1998. Ten years after her cult shock-punk band's last tour, Plasmatics' lead singer Wendy O. Williams has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Williams' longtime companion and.
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Sources. When dominitrix-dressed diva Wendy O. Williams burst on to the music scene with the Plasmatics in 1978, she further confused the average citizen and delighted and titillated fans with her no-holds-barred approach to creating a sonic spectacle. Straddling punk and heavy metal music, the Plasmatics were seemingly as much performance.
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WENDY O'WILLIAMS, lead singer of the New York shock rock band The Plasmatics, has committed suicide. She was 48. She was 48. Her body was found last Monday (April 6) in woods near to her.
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The impact of Wendy O. Williams and Plasmatics went beyond chart positions and sales. Williams was a punk pioneer - an outrageous, mohawked personification of the freedom that rock'n'roll.
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Wendy O - Plasmatics on the Joan Rivers Show 1986 doing 'Goin' Wild' from Kommander of Kaos Album (the only album she did as a 3 piece)
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Years later, as the Plasmatics and Wendy O. Williams continued their assault on the world, Heidi Shepherd and Carla Harvey — the singer-songwriters who would later form the band Butcher Babies.
Wendy O. Williams performs with The Plasmatics in concert at the
Banned in London, busted in Cleveland and Milwaukee, the legendary Wendy O. Williams (aka "Queen of Shock Rock", "Queen of Punk," "Dominatrix of the Decibels", and "High Priestess of Metal") and the Plasmatics, the band of changing musicians built around her by radical anti-artist Rod Swenson, revolutionized American culture and music creating a seismic shock wave still being felt today.
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NEW YORK -- Wendy O. Williams, the deceased singer of the 1980s destructo-. rock band the Plasmatics, was remembered by several hundred fans, friends and family. Monday night at CBGB's, the East.
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The Plasmatics were an American punk rock, hardcore punk and heavy metal band formed by Rod Swenson and Wendy O. Williams in New York City in 1977. They were a controversial group known for chaotic, destructive live shows and outrageous theatrics. These included chainsawing guitars, destroying speaker cabinets, sledgehammering television sets and blowing up automobiles live on stage.
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Pioneers of punk-metal fusion, Wendy O. Williams and the Plasmatics revolutionized the culture of American music with unparalleled live performances and jaw-dropping theatrics, on and off stage. Lightning rods for controversy, Williams and the band endured police arrests and countrywide bans. With unforgettable stunts such as taking chainsaws to guitars and blowing up full-size cars, their.
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Wendy O. Williams, the leader of the 1980's punk band the Plasmatics, a group more famous for their destructive onstage antics than for their music, died on Monday at her home in Storrs, Conn., in.
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The Plasmatics, fronted by the unmatchable Wendy O. Williams, may have been the most misunderstood rock 'n' roll band ever. Conceived as all of the following: performance art, social comment, consumer culture satirists, and rock 'n' roll band; the Plasmatics were impossible to categorize, falling somewhere between punk rock and Kiss/Alice Cooper (both bands were fans), their shows were.
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Wendy O Williams was a revolutionary, and although her music seldom strayed from a cacophonous punk rock and lobotomised metal blueprint, it still sounds impossibly thrilling today. The record itself amounts to a brief but startling primer for the Wendy O catalogue, replete with classics like Butcher Baby and A Pig Is A Pig.