DEE SNIDER: LET’S TWIST AGAIN

“I kind of see myself in the future as a cross between Phil Collins and Bette Midler.” —Dee Snider

Growing up on Long Island in the second half of the 1970s, it was impossible to avoid Twisted Sister. They were the biggest thing on the bar scene then, and if by chance you somehow managed to avoid their popular glam-gore live show, you couldn’t miss their ubiquitous radio ads. A girl I had a crush on in high school was a Twisted groupie. A guy I met in my first music-biz job gave me a copy of their debut indie single. Arrrgh! I had to get out.