Here's one last pic for the year, courtesy of the always helpful Peter M.:

1)  Here is an mp3 of Wendy performing a song called "God Bless The Child" taken from a private live recording with noted Australian musicians Peter Head, Peter Figures, the late Jacky Orzasky and others... - many thanks to Peter M. for the mp3!

2)  Here is a video featuring Wendy Saddington & The Hare Krishna Band's cover of Bob Marley's"Redemption Song", as featured on HKB's 1984 album Where To Now?:

-  "Redemption Song" written by Bob Marley. (Video Concept by Peter M.).

(Footage copyright © ABC -- original link here: http://www.youtube.com/user/EntertainmentOnABC).

2)  Here is a link to mp3's of the Australian production of The Who's Tommy (Saturday 31 March 1973,  Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne). The event was originally broadcast on Channel 7 on 13 April 1973:

http://rapidshare.com/files/212073944/TommyLive.rar

- My thanks to Micko at www.midoztouch.com for alerting me to forum member 'Neb-Maat-Re''s full Australian Tommy upload, here (thanks Neb!):

Cast:

(Footage copyright © ABC).

Merry Christmas to all Wendy Saddington fans, and thank you everyone who has helped out with this site in some way in 2008 (in particular Peter Maloney, Barry McKay, Des McKenna and Peter McCray) - your help was much appreciated, thank you!

UPDATE! - Here's Wendy singing a live cover of Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" for ABC-TV's 1975 program, 'Radio With Pictures'.

3)  Added four photos of Wendy courtesy of Australian photographer Harley Parker. The following four photos have now been added to the PHOTO GALLERY page/section:

I)  Wendy at Lobby Lloyds Benefit concert, 2006.
II)  Wendy at Festival Hall, circa mid-70s.
III)  Wendy at Festival Hall, circa mid-70s.
IV)  Wendy at the Thumpin' Tum, 1971.

Many thanks Harley, much appreciated!

4)  Added a sample MP3 of Loka Nunda's 2008 "Soul Lover", featuring Wendy on guest vocals. This is now available to listen to on the DISCOGRAPHY page - I hope you're of with this, Loka! :)

5)  Added a new page titled JEFF CROZIER regarding a musician Wendy once worked with back in the early 70s named Jeff Crozier (aka Geoff Crozier, Jeff Krozier, The Mad Magician, High Priest of Magik).

6)  Added the following live dates to the LIVE HISTORY page (courtesy of Paul McHenry’s "Australian Made: Wendy Saddington" article for it - The Australian Record Collectors Magazine magazine of 1997 (issue 20):

7)  Some thoughts regarding Wendy's cover of Sixto Rodriguez' "I Think of You" as featured in the feature film Home Song Stories:

danielandhisorchestra - www.verygoodplus.co.uk/ - July 27th, 2008

"I was sat watching the Home Sung Stories (sic) the other night when the beauty of the music became more captivating than the beauty of the film. A Wendy Saddington track "I think of you" played over a montage and hit the spot... Really recommend the film, by the way - an Aussie production, rightly won a few awards, don't know how much exposure it got abroad."

8)  Here is a interesting (though sadly negative) piece of old history involving Wendy, taken from infamous Australian punk band, The Thoughts Criminals, official website at: www.thethoughtcriminals.com.au/:

"A memorable show featuring the band dismembering an effigy of Wendy Saddington, filled with raw meat which was then thrown at the audience, earned the band a certain notoriety, not least because the show was a benefit for Wendy, an old hippie, who had fallen on self inflicted hard times. Ironically Wendy's mum used to feed the band at her legendary late night spot, Oddys, but our heroes always knew how to bite the band that fed them - and finished up the proceedings with a friend dressed as Australian actor Leonard Teale reading the immortal Australian poem "Wendy of the Overdose" to the tune (sic) of "Clancy of the Overflow"."

- The Thoughts Criminals consisted of (between 1977 - 1981): Roger Grierson, Rocking Rique Lee Kendall (aka Matt Black), Bruce Warner (aka Kit Identity), Stephen Philip (aka Vivi Sector), Roger Grierson, John Hoey, Bruce Warner, Ken Doyle (aka Derik Wapillspoon) and breifly, Mark Kingsmill (aka Jim Boots)). The Thoughts Criminals Discography: "Hilton Bomber" (EP), "Food for Thoughtcrimes" (EP), "Speed Madness and Flying Saucers" (LP), "Edge of Time / Equidistance" (7" Single).

July

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1)  On June 23rd 2008, Wendy Saddington Band MK. II drummer Des McKenna kindly sent me the following further memories of his time working with Wendy - my apologies to Des for not adding this sooner:

"Interesting rock yarns, the first time this Wendy Saddington Enrec band started was in Feb 1986, Mick Liber and Angelica was friends with Wilbur Wilde and I and I used to hang out at Wilbur's house after Hey Hey Its Payday. They asked me if I wanted to join a new band and -------------I said no ---------sorry thanx, but I was too busy. Then they told me it was to be a reggae band cos they new I loved reggae music. I said --'no again sorry' I was already happily in 3 other reggae bands. Then they told me they were working with Wendy Saddington and I said, we'll see you tomorrow at my house at 1pm. I set up my drums in the lounge room, Mik and Angelika set up 1 small amplifier each, Wendy plugged in a $30 microphone and started wailing and I got a shrill in my spine, pins and needles!!! The band locked in ON FIRE!! We gigged that weekend; thirty old rock fans came out of the walls the see and hear the mighty Witch of Pitch."

2)  Added a brief bit about Wendy by noted Australian musician Rose Bygrave to the STORIES/MEMORIES page. Thanks Rose, and my apologies (again) for not adding this sooner.

3)  Added another Go-Set Magazine Wendy article scan to GO-SET ARTICLES section.

4)  Added another gig date Wendy played with the group Aniseed, circa 1996 at the Esplanade (aka The Espy) Hotel in St. Kilda, Melbourne.

June

It's been awhile, but here are a couple updates: Firstly, if anyone wishes to subscribe to this fan site to receive update notifications, please visit the newly added "Subscribe" page. When there is an update on WENDY SADDINGTON - LIFE IS A LONG SONG I will send you an e-mail notification. This way you never miss an update.

1) Added a youtube.com-hosted video of Carrol Jerrems 1978 short film Hanging About, which features an unknown Wendy Saddington song, to the FILMOGRAPHY and VIDEO pages. I don't know whether this tune Wendy sings is a cover or an original; so if anyone has any idea, please let me know, thanks.

2) Added a live recording of Wendy singing a cover of Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller's classic, "Stand By Me" with Peter Head live at the Civic Hotel, Sydney in 1990.

3) Added a review of Wendy's unreleased 1986 ENREC Studio recordings by famous Australian author and The Melbourne Times AFL columnist Colin Talbot (aka Traven Colins) to the W.S. BAND page. Thank you to Des McKenna for kindly passing on this review.

4) Added to the LIVE HISTORY page a scan of a street poster for a gig from the early 70s Wendy played with Blackfeather, Jeff St. John & Friends at Sydney Town Hall.

5) Added a story/memory by an Elliot Gordon Union member about a Canberra gig from back in the day that features Wendy, courtesy of EGU's Ray Grieve. See STORIES/MEMORIES.

6) Added a scan of the official sheet music to Wendy's 1971 hit, Looking Through A Window, and a scan of an 8-track tape copy of the 1971 Wendy Saddington & Copperwine's Live LP to the PHOTO GALLERY page.

7) Added a couple more links to drummer Des McKenna's websites to the LINKS page.

May

24th

1)  A couple days ago, Barry McKay from www.poparchives.com.au/gosetcharts/ sent me around 20 or so Go-Set magazine articles featuring Wendy Saddington, which I have now added to the site in the various "Articles" pages, and the new GO-SET ARTICLES section. Complete scans of the "Wendy Saddington Takes Care of Business" articles will be added to the GO-SET ARTICLES section next week. Many thanks to Barry for kindly sending me even more Go-Set magazine photocopy scans - it is much appreciated.

2)  Added a downloadable MP3 of Wendy's "Looking Through A Window" b-side, "We Need A Song" to the MP3 DOWNLOADS page.

3)  A new page titled, VIDEO has now been added to the site. Here, you can view five different videos featuring Wendy. Many thanks to Barry McKay for the two GTK videos featuring Wendy - it is much appreciated.

April

26th

1)  First things first... the name of this site will be getting changed very soon as wendysaddington.com is no longer an option.

2)  Go-Set magazine researcher and friend of Wendy's, Barry McKay (www.poparchives.com.au/gosetcharts), contacted me yesterday with a bunch different articles featuring Wendy Saddington, these include:

- Four video clips about Australia's first music magazine, Go-Set, two of which feature Wendy Saddington. The first video features Wendy being interviewed (which can be watched below), and the second video has Wendy seated a table with the rest of the Go-Set crew, which I shall upload soon The other two videos not featuring Wendy will be added to www.youtube.com next week.

- A document Barry put together in 2000 for an ABC programme, that features 20 "Wendy Takes Care of Business" columns for Go-Set magazine, ranging from 22/11/69 to 27/6/70. Also included in this document are a few quotes from Wendy taken from other Go-Set articles, including an article titled "What is Trucking" and a Vietnam moratorium Day 1970 article titled "Plastic Wombats". In Barry's Wendy Saddington and Go-Set document, he also includes a mention about Wendy receiving criticism from Melbourne commercial radio about not being qualified to run the agony aunt column - "Wendy Takes Care of Business".

- A custom-colorized pic for a promo show Barry does for community radio - http://au.geocities.com/itstimecharts/.

- A pic of Wendy on the front cover of Go-Set, from 6 Sept 1969.

- Scans of two Go-Set "Wendy Takes Care of Business" agony aunt columns, and a Go-Set article featuring Wendy from circa late 1973 / early 1974.

*Barry met Wendy in Melbourne between 2002-2003 and got to know her as a friend when she was living with the Hare Krishna's earlier this decade. Many thanks to Barry for kindly sending all this great stuff - it is very much appreciated.

3)  I have also included a Wendy & Copperwine's gig ad from an old go-set, and a scan of a photocopy of an old flyer of a Wendy gig at The Roundhouse. Uni. NSW, courtesy of Peter Maloney - many thanks Peter.