Wendy james biography
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Wendy James interview: ‘I was a bit of a wild girl’
Wendy James, as the face of Transvision Vamp, was a global star, a pin-up rebel. Now a solo artist, she has a new album on the way and will be appearing at the Junction in May.
Shooting to fame at a young age with rock-pop outfit Transvision Vamp, front woman Wendy James was something of a pop culture icon in the late 1980s, early 1990s, with her sultry vocals and unmistakeable image, which adorned magazine covers all over the world.
Now, London-born Wendy is to return with a new album, Queen High Straight, on May 1 – her fifth solo effort – and will grace the stage, with the Wendy James Band, a few weeks later at the Junction on May 23.
Transvision Vamp exploded onto the scene in 1988 when their single I Want Your Love broke into the top five. Further hits such as Baby I Don’t Care and Landslide of Love followed, until the group disbanded in 1991.
Wendy has gone on to collaborate with Elvis Costello – who wrote all of the tracks on her debut album, Now Ain’t the Time for Your Tears – James Williamson (Iggy & the Stooges), Lenny Kaye (the Patti Smith Group) and James Sclavunos (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds), who plays drums and percussion on Queen High Straight.
Wendy began writing the new album – she wrote a
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Wendy James (born on the 21st January 1966, in East Sussex, England), is a singer-songwriter - best known as lead singer with late 80's pop band Transvision Vamp. She is currently the singer with Racine.
James was adopted soon after birth and left home at the age of 16, moving to the English seaside town of Brighton. Whilst there, she studied drama and English at college. After a year, she began singing in a nightclub, where (according to her) she mainly sang Patti Smith cover songs. There she met and began dating Nick Christian Sayer. James soon began living with Sayer and the pair began collaborating on songs (although Sayer was the principal song writer). Eventually Sayer and James moved to London where they teamed up with friends, Dave Parsons, Tex Axile and Pol Burton. The five of them soon formed the pop-punk band Transvision Vamp. Their first release entitled "Revolution Baby" failed to make much of an impact, but their third single "I Want Your Love" was a top 10 hit in the U.K. charts in 1988. The band released three albums in total before disbanding.
Solo career
With almost all of the song writing tasks taken on by Nick Sayer in her previous band, James found the transition to solo artist difficult, due to her lack of experience in this are
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Wendy James
British songster and songwriter
For other uses, see Wendy James (disambiguation).
Musical artist
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Transvision Vamp
Main article: Transvision Vamp
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