Why is this Lady not celebrated more? I have never seen a documentary or anything that showed how truly inspiring and magnificent she was and still is, she remains, magical, intelligent, a true feminist, she carried herself so beautifully. She has been over looked, ignored by people who should be bringing this woman and the band back to the forefront of our memories, she deserves so much more respect. God bless her, she was way way way before her time and not only intelligent but inspiring, resilient, spiritual, moral, kind, so full of life and she is unafraid , says it as it is but with absolute class!! ❤
I know these interviews are from the late 1980’s and early 90’s but every time I watch one of these with Wendy James I’m always just so impressed with her. Here she’s 24 years old and she is so intelligent and well spoken and obviously well read. I don’t mean to make it sound as if I expected a nit wit or something because that’s not it at all. I’m saying that compared to just about any 24 year old back then or even now a days she shows intelligence and maturity beyond her years. Also, when you consider that as she herself has said, she came from very humble beginnings at an average public school, and she’s the singer for a pop band, you don’t expect her to be so articulate and exhibiting a depth of knowledge usually only found in a person who attended a private school and went to university. I mean all of this as a compliment to her for obviously doing a bit of self learning or self educating and not simply settling for what she was getting at school. She most definitely did a fair amount of reading and delving into books and topics not typically covered in school. And don’t forget this was back before the internet and cellphones and google etc etc. So anything she says that shows her level of reading and scope of understanding is all a result of the effort on her part to learn more about the world and society in general all of which was not from a formal education at university or college. And like I said this was before internet etc where you have the world coming at you from your smartphone 24/7 with little to no effort on your part and here she is discussing communism and the role played by certain people behind the “iron curtain” as well as other things. In some of the other interviews I’ve seen with her when she was even younger than she is here, say 21 or 22, she was just as articulate and drawing on knowledge and concepts that you can only get from reading some fairly dense and in some cases ancient tomes by some of the most important thinkers/writers of the western world. Plato, Augustine, Aquinas, Milton and others. It’s just not every day that you come across someone who has the depth and breadth of knowledge and understanding as she has combined with a terrific talent as a singer plus being just gorgeous, beautiful and sexy all at the same time. I thoroughly enjoy watching her interviews with a host that tries to make her look stupid or uneducated and she puts him (it’s usually a man) in his place lol. And she does it with poise and elegance using big words and concepts that clearly go right over the head of whomever it is conducting the interview and ends up showing his lack of education and knowledge lol. I just love when the “dumb blond who’s cute and sexy, who can sing and dance but is an air-head” turns out to be well read with an understanding of current world events and their place in history etc etc showing how narrow minded and simple the person who is conducting the interview is lol Seriously though, isn’t the fact that she’s not the typical “dumb blond” but instead she’s intelligent and articulate and strong and independent PLUS she’s super hot just makes her even more attractive.
She's not just beautiful and intelligent. She also has a beautiful nature about her laughing at the funny comments made by others in the interview on the show. She's definitely not boring like today's popstars.
It's strange, I remember all the kids at school had a crush on her but I was never really into them but for that brief time they were everywhere in 1989. All these years later, I find myself watching this and it finally dawned on me Wendy was rather unique, very smart, charming, quirky, very feisty, interesting, cute, and I even like some of their songs now. Albeit 30 years later. 😂😁😊😍
An interview where the VIP's being interviewed are educated, polite, have something meaningful to say, are naturally funny and engaging and a host who give them the space to bring out their personalities. Heck of an idea...and certainly better than the shouty, yelly, brain dead, dumb non entities we get now adays. Wendy shines as the naturally brightest of all three of them, and that is a heck of an achievement as the bar was set high.
That’s very harsh comments. If her online self is anything like real life. I think she is OK. Nice even. I can’t say I’ve come away from chatting with her and thought anything else.
Just don’t watch the video she made for the new album. It’s truly sad how the years have not been kind to her. I stumbled across the video for her new album quite by accident. So I wasn’t making the connection that the person I was seeing was the same person I was seeing in these videos from 1989-1995. I was watching the video and thinking that this woman had a great voice for someone in their 80’s! lol not from the 80’s but in her 80’s lol. Seriously I thought it was a woman in her 80’s or at best in her 70’s and when I realised who it was I almost had a stroke or at least a mild episode of cognitive dissonance. I quickly pulled up a playlist I have of just Transvision Vamp videos from the early 90’s and watched about a dozen in order to erase what I had seen from my brain. I just couldn’t let that version of her take the place of the version I have of her in my mind which is the 22-26 year old her. Lol
I still to this day have yet to see a better looking girl than wendy james i pure loved her she was a pure amd absolute darling great looking woman stunner
I could never work out whether Wendy was actuually shy or just so confident in her sexuality that she's demure. It seems as though I still have my teenage crush.
Wendy James was always her own woman and would never be patronised, I didn't know she was adopted. Certainly never deserved the bimbo tag the UK media wanted to hang on her. Loved that she wanted to know about Palin's son's band and what instrument he played. That's when you saw a glimpse of her really.
Gotta love the era when hosts let the guests talk, such a change from much of the modern ones. Gotta also love Wendy for shattering a stereotype that I've never liked.
CAREFUL YOU MAY GET THE *REAL* "WENDY JAMES" DROP DEAD GORGEOUS LEAD SINGER OF "TRANSVISION VAMP A *REAL* TALENT WHO DIDN'T HAVE TO *FUCK*AND *SUCK* ON FILM TO BE"SUCCESSFUL!!!!!"
As a "fellow" former adoptee i agree with wendy not wantn to know her birth parents! I had the same mindset but unfortunatly the birth mother tracked me down via a national newspaper in 2002 and that was the BIGGEST most disappointing and worst mistake of my life! I was pushed into it by everyone else who only wantd me to go ahead with the stupid idea to satisfy THEIR own pathetic curiosity's! My advice to any adult adoptees? DONT BOTHER!
Very smart lady,sexy,funny and intelligent ,need more people like her in the public eye. She is a feminist but not one of these modern far left woke feminist
It was her choice, she always said that she would rather work for herself and sing what she liked than get rich singing what the record company liked. In this she was consistent. And the records she made after that are just as good although very different and less easy listening from TVV.
That was very unexpected. What an excellent little discussion with her. Always thought she was cute but never realised she was smart and articulate as well. Probably wasn't my priority when I was younger, haha. She was very easy to listen to here.
She has her you tube channel and is still recording music....i never understand why she got a 'trout pout' done though....always thought she was against that plastic surgery crap..!! x
I came across the video for her newest song a while back and I’m actually sad that I did. After watching for a minute or so I quickly pulled up a playlist I have of just Transvision Vamp videos from their first couple of albums and had to watch at least a dozen or so to get the image of her in that video out of my mind. Seriously, it was bad. When it first came on I was thinking why does this old woman (in her 80’s) sound like Wendy James? Then I read the video description and was horrified lol. Don’t look for her now it will make you cry. The years (and drugs) have not been good to her at all. If you watch her video for “If looks could kill” you can start to see the kind of behaviour of someone on coke or uppers of some kind. The facial expressions and aggressiveness. And also look for some of the live videos from that era of her performing on stage and you can see it there as well. Also, the use of her sexiness you can see the beginnings of that back when they were on Top of the Pops. Watch the first appearance doing “Baby I Don’t Care” she’s wearing a black dress with tassels at the bottom. Then watch the next time they are on for the same song and she has a white shawl type top with a black bra or bikini top on underneath and she’s kind of lowering the shawl to show more skin and moving her hands to encourage the crowd to be more lively. But you can really see the difference and its sad because she goes from this innocent super excited just to be there person to a person using sex appeal to motivate the crowd. But again don’t go looking for her new video, you’ll regret ever seeing it.
posh nosh a world away from the real world of the north hate the class devision in my country the losers on school fight for this country and the southern controllers reap the rewards
Why is this Lady not celebrated more? I have never seen a documentary or anything that showed how truly inspiring and magnificent she was and still is, she remains, magical, intelligent, a true feminist, she carried herself so beautifully. She has been over looked, ignored by people who should be bringing this woman and the band back to the forefront of our memories, she deserves so much more respect. God bless her, she was way way way before her time and not only intelligent but inspiring, resilient, spiritual, moral, kind, so full of life and she is unafraid , says it as it is but with absolute class!! ❤
Who said she was a Feminist?
she's alright
I know these interviews are from the late 1980’s and early 90’s but every time I watch one of these with Wendy James I’m always just so impressed with her. Here she’s 24 years old and she is so intelligent and well spoken and obviously well read. I don’t mean to make it sound as if I expected a nit wit or something because that’s not it at all. I’m saying that compared to just about any 24 year old back then or even now a days she shows intelligence and maturity beyond her years. Also, when you consider that as she herself has said, she came from very humble beginnings at an average public school, and she’s the singer for a pop band, you don’t expect her to be so articulate and exhibiting a depth of knowledge usually only found in a person who attended a private school and went to university. I mean all of this as a compliment to her for obviously doing a bit of self learning or self educating and not simply settling for what she was getting at school. She most definitely did a fair amount of reading and delving into books and topics not typically covered in school. And don’t forget this was back before the internet and cellphones and google etc etc. So anything she says that shows her level of reading and scope of understanding is all a result of the effort on her part to learn more about the world and society in general all of which was not from a formal education at university or college. And like I said this was before internet etc where you have the world coming at you from your smartphone 24/7 with little to no effort on your part and here she is discussing communism and the role played by certain people behind the “iron curtain” as well as other things.
In some of the other interviews I’ve seen with her when she was even younger than she is here, say 21 or 22, she was just as articulate and drawing on knowledge and concepts that you can only get from reading some fairly dense and in some cases ancient tomes by some of the most important thinkers/writers of the western world. Plato, Augustine, Aquinas, Milton and others. It’s just not every day that you come across someone who has the depth and breadth of knowledge and understanding as she has combined with a terrific talent as a singer plus being just gorgeous, beautiful and sexy all at the same time.
I thoroughly enjoy watching her interviews with a host that tries to make her look stupid or uneducated and she puts him (it’s usually a man) in his place lol. And she does it with poise and elegance using big words and concepts that clearly go right over the head of whomever it is conducting the interview and ends up showing his lack of education and knowledge lol. I just love when the “dumb blond who’s cute and sexy, who can sing and dance but is an air-head” turns out to be well read with an understanding of current world events and their place in history etc etc showing how narrow minded and simple the person who is conducting the interview is lol
Seriously though, isn’t the fact that she’s not the typical “dumb blond” but instead she’s intelligent and articulate and strong and independent PLUS she’s super hot just makes her even more attractive.
She's not just beautiful and intelligent. She also has a beautiful nature about her laughing at the funny comments made by others in the interview on the show. She's definitely not boring like today's popstars.
I remember this show as it was aired on TV. God how I adored Wendy ❤
a bright well spoken down to earth beautiful woman
How can you not fall in love with Wendy 😍😍😍😍
It's strange, I remember all the kids at school had a crush on her but I was never really into them but for that brief time they were everywhere in 1989. All these years later, I find myself watching this and it finally dawned on me Wendy was rather unique, very smart, charming, quirky, very feisty, interesting, cute, and I even like some of their songs now. Albeit 30 years later. 😂😁😊😍
😂😂😂😂😂
This Lady is so well educated, and such a joy to listen to.
I was in love with Wendy at 17, and I still am now!
Just as long as me then lol
An interview where the VIP's being interviewed are educated, polite, have something meaningful to say, are naturally funny and engaging and a host who give them the space to bring out their personalities. Heck of an idea...and certainly better than the shouty, yelly, brain dead, dumb non entities we get now adays. Wendy shines as the naturally brightest of all three of them, and that is a heck of an achievement as the bar was set high.
the more you listen to wendy the more you fall in love with her.
meet her in real life like i did many times...in her prime..your opinion would soon change...
please elaborate,i'm curious.
True in the 90s. Now she is just a train wreck that will not go away.
That’s very harsh comments. If her online self is anything like real life. I think she is OK. Nice even. I can’t say I’ve come away from chatting with her and thought anything else.
@@davidfelix2594 What do you mean? Is she a bitch or something?
Perche ' nessuna radio parla di lei o fa ascoltare piu le sue canzoni e' un mistero
The wonderful Wendy we have missed so much talent ,such a nice levelheaded woman ,love her
MY GOD SHE IS *DROP* *DEAD* *GORGEOUS*
😂😂😂😂😂😂
She smokes 🤢
@@RayCyst310Wendy quit smoking in 2018.
What a lovely person, she interviews so well....
And she's pretty.
This girl is amazing. I fell in love with her when I was an Air Force Officer… she’s STILL in my heart.
Amen, Brother.
Exactly same here ❤
-I actually had a GF looking like Wendy
I think Wendy has what they call the x-factor, what an interesting person to listen to as well.
Wow, she is so articulate and elegant in her speech!
And she's pretty.
she's so bloody clever. what a brain. her beauty too, but it's her character too. wow
she is such a beautifull lady and soooo sweet
Wendy is brilliant I could listen to her forever.
she's very well spoken! i admit i wasn't expecting that, good on her!
I bet she even uses capital I's too ;-)
Lisa Clough
Amusing.
She is delightfully conversant and thoughtful.
Awesome interviewer, and the two best guests ever.
What a wonderful woman. Intelligent articulate and lovely
Straight to see depth interview with this lovely lady. Not just admiring her musical talent and having her on my wall as a basketball teenager
i love Michael Palin too,what an enjoyable interview,thankyou.
I loved her as a Teenager, never knew she was naturally highly intelligent and self educated too.
Wendy is class ! Always was, always will be :o)
I saw transvision vamp live in 1991. I loved Wendy then and I love her now
The same person in the same room haha Maureen Lipman and Michael Palin. Fantastic interview with Wendy James. How have I not seen this before...
I was around in the 60's. How did I miss Transvision Vamp and Wendy James. I love their music and Wendy James is awesome.
Beautiful woman, great singer
Simply beautiful ❤
Get on it.. Wendy has a new album out now. "Queen High Straight"
If you like Wendy's voice with the Vamp's.. You will love her new album..
Just don’t watch the video she made for the new album. It’s truly sad how the years have not been kind to her. I stumbled across the video for her new album quite by accident. So I wasn’t making the connection that the person I was seeing was the same person I was seeing in these videos from 1989-1995. I was watching the video and thinking that this woman had a great voice for someone in their 80’s! lol not from the 80’s but in her 80’s lol. Seriously I thought it was a woman in her 80’s or at best in her 70’s and when I realised who it was I almost had a stroke or at least a mild episode of cognitive dissonance. I quickly pulled up a playlist I have of just Transvision Vamp videos from the early 90’s and watched about a dozen in order to erase what I had seen from my brain. I just couldn’t let that version of her take the place of the version I have of her in my mind which is the 22-26 year old her. Lol
I still to this day have yet to see a better looking girl than wendy james i pure loved her she was a pure amd absolute darling great looking woman stunner
lovely speaking voice.
And she's pretty.
Even at 24 she was very smart and serious.
She did not seem to do a lot of interviews, and it's great looking back at them now, but she was impressive in the ones I've seen.
I could never work out whether Wendy was actuually shy or just so confident in her sexuality that she's demure. It seems as though I still have my teenage crush.
Wendy James was always her own woman and would never be patronised, I didn't know she was adopted. Certainly never deserved the bimbo tag the UK media wanted to hang on her.
Loved that she wanted to know about Palin's son's band and what instrument he played. That's when you saw a glimpse of her really.
Always so smart, dear Wendy.
I bought a synthesizer from, the guitarist's brother.Love Wendy.
Such a high quality woman .
Gotta love the era when hosts let the guests talk, such a change from much of the modern ones.
Gotta also love Wendy for shattering a stereotype that I've never liked.
Intelligent role model! Pity she did not become even more well known.
I met her once for about 20 seconds ❤💖💓💗💕
Seen em in 1988 ,,,front of stage😍
I like the American accent when she says ah we can have everything, spot on
Yes! Such a clever way of letting on who she was specifically making the point about, without having to be blunt.
As an American I loved it!
Wendy is just lovely
I love Wendy James X message us Wendy .. hop your good. Get back
She's Lovely
What a beautiful articulate woman
She should be a Bond girl
A remarkable lady.
I love how she described countries like the US without identifying them by name.
Thought she was talking about Palestine but then I remembered that not a country🤷♂
And she's pretty.
Wendy reminds me so much of patsy kensit here!
well that was unexpected, what a lovely girl. Lawrence was right all along
CAREFUL YOU MAY GET THE *REAL* "WENDY JAMES" DROP DEAD GORGEOUS LEAD SINGER OF "TRANSVISION VAMP A *REAL* TALENT WHO DIDN'T HAVE TO *FUCK*AND *SUCK* ON FILM TO BE"SUCCESSFUL!!!!!"
As a "fellow" former adoptee i agree with wendy not wantn to know her birth parents! I had the same mindset but unfortunatly the birth mother tracked me down via a national newspaper in 2002 and that was the BIGGEST most disappointing and worst mistake of my life! I was pushed into it by everyone else who only wantd me to go ahead with the stupid idea to satisfy THEIR own pathetic curiosity's! My advice to any adult adoptees?
DONT BOTHER!
Such a lovely person
Gosh she is beautiful ❤️❤️
Very smart lady,sexy,funny and intelligent ,need more people like her in the public eye.
She is a feminist but not one of these modern far left woke feminist
Wendy James gorgeous woman ❤
I love her.
Back in the day Wendy James was gorgeous
he still is ......
@@krishnan-resurrection714I wish, but sadly, no.
@@thefreedomguyuk i WOULD .
makes me sad hearing her speak about being adopted;it must have a profound effect on ones life.
I reckon she should've met them while she had a chance. probably can't anymore.
I liked her sad how she pretty much vanished very quickly
It was her choice, she always said that she would rather work for herself and sing what she liked than get rich singing what the record company liked. In this she was consistent. And the records she made after that are just as good although very different and less easy listening from TVV.
6:30 well, she’s been to Australia and I reckon she’s got that pretty right.
Eyebrows are in fashion now 😊
She'd definitely have got it back in the day, i can tell you that!
Herdsman hotel. Perth. Wow. Night
We met. Fun times.
Wendy
When was this? Upward of 30 years ago. Also...
Hilary for president? No, Wendy for queen would be better.
That was very unexpected. What an excellent little discussion with her. Always thought she was cute but never realised she was smart and articulate as well. Probably wasn't my priority when I was younger, haha. She was very easy to listen to here.
The way she talks kinda reminds me of Patsy Kensit a little
Wendy talks the true and yet a rock band.... THE POSHNESS is beautiful
It was effectively a punk band. Not sure if the Crawley accent is posh. Adorable, but not posh.
wat a sort❤
What a clever woman,
Maureen Lipman - what a Piece of Work!!! The woman who recently turned around and claimed she wasn't British.
Today we have the inarticulate, simple & contrived “talent” Taylor Swift 😂
The old sock draw use to get smashed over Wendy back then
on the topic of band names i thought we were gonna hear about the rutles
She used to make me steam ! Will look totally different without make up. Wonder what she looks like today? What happened to her?
She has her you tube channel and is still recording music....i never understand why she got a 'trout pout' done though....always thought she was against that plastic surgery crap..!! x
i wonder what she looks like now in 2014
She's on Facebook.
+davina davis Anorexic, trout pout.
Haunt houses.....
davina davis really ugly now.
I came across the video for her newest song a while back and I’m actually sad that I did. After watching for a minute or so I quickly pulled up a playlist I have of just Transvision Vamp videos from their first couple of albums and had to watch at least a dozen or so to get the image of her in that video out of my mind. Seriously, it was bad. When it first came on I was thinking why does this old woman (in her 80’s) sound like Wendy James? Then I read the video description and was horrified lol. Don’t look for her now it will make you cry. The years (and drugs) have not been good to her at all. If you watch her video for “If looks could kill” you can start to see the kind of behaviour of someone on coke or uppers of some kind. The facial expressions and aggressiveness. And also look for some of the live videos from that era of her performing on stage and you can see it there as well. Also, the use of her sexiness you can see the beginnings of that back when they were on Top of the Pops. Watch the first appearance doing “Baby I Don’t Care” she’s wearing a black dress with tassels at the bottom. Then watch the next time they are on for the same song and she has a white shawl type top with a black bra or bikini top on underneath and she’s kind of lowering the shawl to show more skin and moving her hands to encourage the crowd to be more lively. But you can really see the difference and its sad because she goes from this innocent super excited just to be there person to a person using sex appeal to motivate the crowd. But again don’t go looking for her new video, you’ll regret ever seeing it.
An unlikely couple shall we say.
Viajo al pasado y melafo
What à completely gorgeous girl
She should've gone ahead and met her parents - won't get another chance, probably can't now anyways.
Smoking Hot!
She looks a little sunburned.
Was Wendy interested in Michael's son ?
I must have been about 2 at the time.
From a 2020 perspective. James Wendy = Trans-Vision Vamp. An MtF.
What are you on about ?
We're not all woke
Dolphin
The magician didn't think the boy was funny.ironic.
Coke is fun
Rough ol' dog now in 2022
Very opinionated . Very interesting . I think she was adopted.
Nowhere near as fit as the young Miss Rann.
posh nosh a world away from the real world of the north hate the class devision in my country the losers on school fight for this country and the southern controllers reap the rewards
Couldn't stand her.
Trans gender vamp ....