I’m sorry I neglected to pay homage to a spunky old cow yesterday.
Wendy O Williams, lead…um… woman of the shock punk band The Plasmatics passed away April 6, 1998
Wendy O was quite the saucy vixen in her day sporting a rad Mohawk and little else while she chain sawed through, well, just about anything.
The Queen of Shock Rock was arrested for simulating sex acts on stage in Milwaukee and during shooting of an appearance SCTV on NBC in 1981, studio heads said they would not air Williams unless she changed out of a stage costume that revealed her nipples. Williams refused. The shows make-up artists found a compromise and painted her breasts black. Spunky!
Wendy’s last known performance of a Plasmatics song occurred due to the prompting of Joey Ramone. She performed “Masterplan” one final time on New Years Eve 1988.
“Butcher Baby!”