Twisted Sister facts
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Twisted Sister band members never drank, never did drugs, never partied, but kept that quiet to avoid hurting their reputation.
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Twisted Sister did 3,000 club perfomances and sold out the Palladium theater in NYC all without a recording contract or radio airplay. No one in the biz would touch them. TS ended up pressing their own albums and before finally getting a deal with a small UK punk label.
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Metallica landed their first European headline gig in 1984 due to a mistake by the venue owner in a Dutch village, who gave them top billing over the intended main act Twisted Sister because he was unable to tell how big either band was.
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Gandhi was described by his sister Raliat as "restless as mercury...either playing or roaming about. One of his favourite pastimes was twisting dogs' ears."[
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The narrator of Travel Channel's Food Paradise is Jesse Blaze Snider, eldest son of Dee Snider, singer of the band Twisted Sister
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Dee Snider of Twisted Sister lived with the kid from the "We're Not Gonna Take It" music video for a while, as Snider had no other place to stay.
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In 1975, Mattel Toys sold a "sister doll" for Barbie called "Growing Up Skipper." When her arm was twisted, larger breasts would grow out of Skipper's chest.
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Whenever twisted sister gives a concert in Spain or other Spanish speaking countries they change they're iconic "we're not gonna take it" to "huevos con aceite" (eggs with oil).
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The main antagonists of Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy was voiced by Dee Snider of Twisted Sister
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Dee Snider re-did a classic Twisted Sister song in honor of those fighting cancer.
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Dee Snider (of Twisted Sister fame) once testified in the US Senate against a proposed plan to censor albums containing offensive material
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Dee Snider from Twisted Sister released an album of Broadway hits called Dee Does Broadway
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Twisted Sister released a Christmas album
In 1985 Dee Snider of Twisted Sister had a Senate testimony to fight censorship by the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), who wanted to introduce a parental warning system that would label all albums containing offensive material. - source
Twisted Sister did a parody of the Goofy Goober Rock from the SpongeBob Movie - source
In 2006 the 1980's Metal band, Twisted Sister, released a Christmas album entitled "Twisted Christmas"
Goofy Goober Rock" from the Spongebob SquarePants movie is based off of twisted sisters 1984 song "I wanna Rock" - source
When did twisted sister break up?
Twisted Sister's version was a cover - Cum on Feel The Noize
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The band Twisted Sister was playing the New York club scene for 11 years before they were signed by a major label - Atlantic Records
One of the two inspirations for Twisted Sister's hit song "We're Not Gonna Take It" was the Christmas carol "O Come, All Ye Faithful"
"We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister is basically the same song as the Christmas song "Oh Come, All Ye Faithful"
In 1985 the Parents Music Resource Center recommended that the Twisted Sister song "We're Not Gonna Take It" be banned for promoting violence.
