TWISTED SISTER Biography




::TWISTED SISTER::

There is no other band like Twisted Sister.

It's fitting then, that the legendary band, singer Dee Snider, guitarists Jay Jay French and Eddie Ojeda, bassist Mark "The Animal" Mendoza and drummer A.J. Pero celebrate the 25th anniversary of their biggest album, Stay Hungry with a commemorative music offering for their fans.

Rhino Records is reissuing the triple-Platinum Stay Hungry, as a double-disc set that features the original remastered, unreleased demos and "30," the group's first new song in a decade.

Formed in New York, Twisted Sister combined the theatricality of the glam rock movement with the sharp edge of groups like David Bowie and Alice Cooper to conjure its one-of-a-kind sound. The band made its bones on the Tri-State area's club circuit before signing with Secret Records in 1982 for its debut, Under The Blade. Soon after the album's release, the British label went bankrupt.

The group rebounded a year later, when Atlantic Records signed the band on the strength of a powerful performance on British television. Twisted Sister’s Atlantic debut, You Can’t Stop Rock 'N' Roll, was certified Gold.

The band's 1984 follow-up, Stay Hungry, was a Top 20 smash that stormed the charts with "I Wanna Rock" and "We're Not Gonna Take It," a pair of fist-pumping anthems of youthful rebellion that went Top 40 and helped the album sell more than three million copies. Those two hit singles have become two of the most widely licensed songs from that decade.

Come Out and Play was released in 1985 and went Gold thanks to a tongue-in-cheek cover of the Shangri-Las' "Leader of the Pack," a longtime live staple dating back the band's club days. Soon after 1987's Love is For Suckers, Twisted Sister stopped performing live.

More than a decade after its last show, Twisted Sister reformed in 2001 for a benefit. The quintet quickly picked up were it left off, notching an astonishing run of more than 9,000 (and counting) performances, 75 headline festival dates performing in front of two million people in over 23 countries.

In 2006, the band returned to the charts with A Twisted Christmas, a best-selling, holiday smash album that buzzsaws through yuletide classics and was hailed by the Associated Press as the "second greatest Christmas album ever made" behind Elvis. That same year, the Long Island Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Twisted Sister. The band is currently at work on a new album and a Broadway musical based on A Twisted Christmas.

Rock of Ages, a current Broadway hit with five Tony® nominations, features Twisted Sister prominently in its storyline as well as the band’s iconic anthems, "I Wanna Rock" and "We're Not Gonna Take It."

Twisted Sister's 35-year legacy includes sales of more than 10 million records worldwide, 35 Gold and Platinum awards from eight countries.

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