Wendy O. Williams performs with The Plasmatics in concert at the


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Maggots: The Record. Deffest! and Baddest! Maggots: The Record is the fourth studio album by American rock singer Wendy O. Williams and her band Plasmatics. It was released on February 18, 1987, by Profile Records. Labeled as a special "9th Anniversary Album", it was the last album released by the band. Despite being labeled a "Plasmatics.


Wendy O. Williams performs with The Plasmatics in concert at the

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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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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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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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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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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1978-1984 (as Plasmatics), 1984-1986, 1986-1988 (as Plasmatics), 1988 Compilation appearances: - "It's My Life/interview" on Metalshop - Radio's Weekly Metal Magazine (Week Of July 13, 1984) (MJI Broadcasting, 1984) - "It's My Life" on Kerrang!


Wendy O. Williams of the Plasmatics 5, Boston, Massachusetts, 1980

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.


Wendy O. Williams, leader of the band Plasmatics, singing during a

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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The Plasmatics had run into trouble with the authorities before, and would do so again, but few rock bands ever faced the sort of police-state tactics Rod and Wendy would encounter in Milwaukee, two days after the Fridays slot. After a sold- out gig at the Palms nightclub, Swenson was settling up with the promoter when one of the band's roadies told him Wendy had been arrested.


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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.


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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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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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