She became an 80s pop icon – and a media hate figure. Now, reforming her group after more than 30 years, James recalls her painful path through through the music business, surviving ‘Harvey ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Transvision Vamp were an English new wave and pop-rock band, formed in 1986 by guitarist Nick Christian Sayer (born August 1, 1964) and singer, songwriter Wendy James (born 21 January 1966 in London), ...

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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 ...

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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, ...