St John, born with spina bifida, had requested his prerequisite stool but had been ''forced to perform, propped precariously, on a slippery studio floor on my crutches'', he notes on his website.
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At Go-Set she also interviewed dynamic soul shouter Jeff St John about a ''fiasco'' on a certain TV pop show. Her advice column, ''Wendy Saddington takes care of business'', for Go-Set from 1969-71 ''got dozens of genuine cris de coeur each week'', according to then editor Phillip Frazer, and she approached it ''with earnest concern''. Saddington renamed them the Chain (later shortened to Chain), after her idol Aretha Franklin's Chain of Fools, touring with them until May 1969. In 1968, Perth blues band the Beaten Tracks relocated to Melbourne. Off stage, friends found her witty, sensitive and caring, and she delighted them with little abstracted drawings of dots and stars. Identifying as lesbian, Saddington soon became a beacon of the emerging gay liberation movement, appearing with drag troupe Sylvia and the Synthetics and at women-only dances. On her small but powerful frame, singlets, vests, Levis and lashings of gypsy jewellery defied the ''girly'' look then expected of the tiny percentage of females who managed to fight their way into the spotlight. Wendy Saddington's trademark kohled eyes, pale, sombre lips and enormous Afro suited her wildcat purr and other-worldly rhythm-and-blues improvisations. All the musos wanted to get her in bed - she had to fight them off and fight for her place on stage. ''I'll never forget the first time I saw her,'' said Humphrys, ''this tiny little person with this huge voice and hair in constant motion, like shivering grass, like smoke. Not, however, before Saddington was named ''The Face of '68'' by pop-music magazine Go-Set. At 17 she joined one of Australia's most impressive bands, James Taylor Move, in June 1968, but they'd disbanded by year's end. Saddington, briefly a typist, sang in Melbourne coffee lounges before bursting onto the scene in 1967 in Melbourne psychedelic soul band the Revolution. ''I don't know how that happened, but she had a real chip on her shoulder, and it was huge,'' said Humphrys. Despite this, the singer seemed to carry a subterranean sadness that made her a perfect vessel for the blues. They were ''very loving parents'', said long-term friend and visual artist Claire Humphrys, wife of the Loved Ones singer, Gerry Humphrys. She was a single child born to Henry Saddington and Connie Evans in Melbourne in 1949. Saddington's early life is a mystery even to her friends. She is currently looking for representation, and any way to do what she loves most: perform.Wendy Saddington with Phil Manning and Chain.
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In her free time Wendy enjoys photography, modeling, baking, and traveling. Wendy most recently performed as Mustardseed in Stag and Lion Theater Company’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Cleo in I Love My Wife at The Kraine Theater. Mark’s, Trinity Theater, and Roy Arias Theater. Wendy was a finalist on ABC’s “ Karaoke Battle USA”, and has performed around NJ with local cover bands as a lead vocalist. She has since graced the stages of The Secret Theater, The Kraine Theater, Under St. In 2012, Wendy made the big move to New York City, and found home in Astoria, NY. Wendy attended Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ where she graduated with a Bachelor’s of Music in Music Theater. From then on she never looked back, and decided performing was the only career that would make her happy. Her earliest musical memory is singing Jingle Bells at the top of her lungs on a packed bus leaving NYC. Wendy grew up in Bergen County, NJ where she spent her early years acting in school plays and singing in church choirs.
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