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, ...

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, ...

This story is part of Sunday Life’s best reads on love and loss in 2025. See all stories. Wendy James is best known for being the founder and lead singer of rock group Transvision Vamp. Here, the ...

As hit singles Baby I Don’t Care and I Want Your Love set up camp on the Australian charts, the band were greeted by thousands of fans and a big police presence outside the venues they were booked to ...

‘We’re making intellectual and factual improvements, but when the old basic instinct kicks in? We get pulled back into the cave’ (David Leigh Dodd) “It never occurred to me for a second that I wasn’t ...