Rolls over Beethoven

Press, 14 August 1980, Page 14

Rolls over Beethoven

Plans by the outrageous American rock singer, Wendy Williams, to blow up a Rolls Royce on stage at her London concert have been stopped, according to NZPA from London. The wild Ms Williams, a vocalist with America’s weirdest punk band, the Plasmatics, likes to round off her act by dynamiting a. car, the “Daily. .Mail” reported. ________

“I’ve trashed Cadillacs and Lincolns. I was really looking forward to giving a Rolls the big bang,” she said. But the aristocrat of motoring has been spared such an undignified end. “We found we just couldn’t , get one on to the stage,” said Nigel Dick, of Stiff Records, the Plasmatics’ label. “At more than two tons, it’s far too heavy to manoeuvre, and we doubt if the stage, at the Hammersmith Odeon would bear the weight. /‘The band will just have to settle for something a little less grand, a ‘tinny’ American car probably.” This was just one of the problems for the Plasmatics, whose act also includes smashing! television sets, cutting guitars- in half with a chainsaw, and a mock hanging of the guitarist, Wes Beech. Wendy, a 29-year-old former live sex show entertainer, who measures 38-22-32, has given new meaning to the phrase “let it all hang out.” She usually starts her act in a mini-skirt and half a T-shirt Sometimes she doesn’t bother with the T-shirt. ,