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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.
Apr 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 onetime manager...
Apr 6, 2023 · The story of Wendy O Williams and the Plasmatics: "I woke up in a pool of blood on the way to the hospital". Plenty of bands play at being subversive, but the real indicator of how much of a threat any group poses to the Establishment is how the Establishment ultimately reacts to their provocations.
From the banning in London, the arrests in Cleveland and Milwaukee, the death defying videos and live shows, to Wendy's Grammy nomination as "Best Female Rock Vocalist of the Year", this...
Apr 16, 1998 · Wendy O. Williams, a Grammy-nominated singer whose stage theatrics as lead singer of the 1980s punk rock band the Plasmatics included blowing up equipment and chain-sawing guitars, committed...
Jul 16, 2021 · 'It’s My Life' was the first single from Wendy O. Williams’ debut solo album ‘WOW’. The album was produced by Kiss legend Gene Simmons and led to a Grammy no...
Sep 7, 2023 · Plasmatics - Producing 'Deffest! and Baddest!': 10 Years of Revolutionary Rock'n'Roll | Part 11. Wendy O. Williams and the Plasmatics, as rock writer John Levy said, "were a phenomenon". From...
