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wendyowilliams .com. Signature. 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]
Apr 6, 2023 · Wendy O Williams (as she was now known) seemed to have stepped straight out of a Russ Meyer flick, and lead guitarist Richie Stotts’s taste in stage garb – tutu, nurse’s outfits, wedding dress – clashed wildly with his nearly seven-foot frame.
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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 found...
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 · Wendy O. Williams and the Plasmatics, as rock writer John Levy said, "were a phenomenon". From 1978-1988 "The Queen of Punk", "The High Priestess of Metal", ...
Apr 8, 1998 · Plasmatics lead singer Wendy Orleans Williams shot and killed herself Monday night in Storrs, Connecticut. Williams was 48. The singer's body was found by her former manager and confidant Rob...
Apr 9, 1998 · 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.,...
Jul 13, 2015 · 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.
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 ...
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 ...
