I love Twisted Sister! This is awesome seeing this years later. I mean especially for a rare Twisted Sister performance! I love this song and this performance. It was a different time period for sure when people who ran dance shows still invited heavy metal bands to perform on the program! I was 11 when that album "You Csn't Stop Rock And Roll" came out! I was actually already a huge fan back then too, and I still am!! But back then I didn't realize how silly early 80's disco dancing people dancing to heavy metal bands looked. Ha! Well, Black Sabbath and Judas Priest both did Top Of The Pops a couple short years before Twisted Sister did and they had people dancing too on their episodes! People back then in the music TV world had more open minds and mixed rock and roll bands and dance kids and whatever. Nowadays, rock bands get zero air time u less you live in Germany or Sweden. Plus, TV shows in the U.S. barely feature music at all, and if they do it's just about crappy ass rap music and candy ass country. The mainstream wants to brush rock and roll and heavy metal under the carpet. The pandemic helped their cause too. But us metalheads never go away. We keep coming back. We shove it right in their faces!!! All hails to metal forever. Also hails to Twisted Sister..💀💀💀
I've always loved how strong Dee's voice is - and the transition from the lower to higher octave in the second verse really showcases that, it's great! Rockin' tune.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say the audience of Top of the Pops was not Twisted Sister's core demographic. Though solid gold disco moves, all of them.
@@Operator8009 Things changed in the 2000s when the shown changed their policy and most bands/artists at least sang live. The few times Maiden did totp, the music might have been a backing track but Bruce was live.
The one band that wore make up in the 80s, that nobody really messed with! 6 foot 3, 200+ pound lead singer really didn't put up with much BS back then, though he was actually well-spoken and intelligent.
yeah that's what the young women wore then (in the uk anyway). This made me recall when I lost some weight and got out a denim shirt I'd put away for a few years, only to find it had become "odd" and surprisingly hideous during it's time out. However, if the nappies came back into fashion, they'd not look weird any more. :) BTW Dee and then rest of the band stayed in my mate's hotel. He was a mature gentleman who found their appearance startling but their friendliness and manners impeccable.
@@paulnr27 I also read that during this performance, everybody backstage was chocking under the amount of Aftershave the band were wearing, Dee was known to drown himself in the stuff before he went on stage. I'd love to know what he wore.
