TRANSVISION Vamp’s Wendy James looks unrecognisable three decades after the band’s smash-hit, Baby I Don’t Care. Singer Wendy, 57, who shot to fame in the 1980s with the pop group, surprised fans as ...

Britain’s bores didn’t know what to do with Wendy James. As the frontwoman of Transvision Vamp, that Eighties collision of brash punk and commercial pop, she was smart and moody, sexy and confounding, ...

SHE was the 80s pin-up famed for her doll-like face, peroxide blonde hair and girly-punk dress sense. Wendy James had teen boys – and girls – swooning at their television screens as she belted out ...

This week, it is Wendy James’s 50th birthday. To celebrate, Rock’s Backpages brings you an interview (or ‘scratch feature’) from Melody Maker in April 1988, in which she and the band talk about sex, ...

Fame came knocking for Wendy James when she was 21 years old and she was absolutely ready for it, writes Ed Power. Three decades later and still a vamp. “The record company probably couldn’t believe ...

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James moved to New York to record an album under the name Racine Wendy James, the seductive former singer with punk-pop band Transvision Vamp, is back with her first album in 11 years. She burst onto ...

1: Who reached Number Six in the UK Singles Chart in 2003 with a cover of Transvision Vamp’s ‘Baby I Don’t Care’? “It was the soap opera person who’d been in Brookside, but I don’t know her name.” “I ...

After 11 years of self-imposed exile, Wendy James, wild-child of pop-punk band Transvision Vamp, is back with a solo album. She tells Sarah Donaldson why she wrote, arranged and produced it all ...