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"When I sing Twisted Sister music, I'm like a steamroller. I'ma beast. I'm out of control." Twisted Sister's Sebastian Bach and Jay Jay French on life after Dee Snider

Sebastian Bach and Jay Jay French are interviewed in the new issue of Classic Rock, out today

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Twisted Sister reveal frontman to replace Dee Snider for a limited run of shows

Sebastian Bach is set to front Twisted Sister for a limited run of shows later this year.

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"It's a long way from me painting the TS logo on the back of my jean jacket in high school in liquid paper to fronting the band." Twisted Sister line up Sebastian Bach as Dee Snider's replacement for reunion shows and he's extremely excited

Sebastian Bach says he's spoken to Dee Snider and they were both "kind of emotional"

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"You make money touring and you give your music away for free, which is why tickets cost so much." Twisted Sister's Jay Jay French on making a living in music

Twisted Sister guitarist is the latest musician to speak on the difficulties facing artists in the "criminal" music business

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“I’m not a massive fan of all things prog. But I must have listened to the Tarkus album a million times down the years”: Twisted Sister’s Jay Jay French wants Emerson, Lake and Palmer to be remembered for ever

Glam metal guitar slinger had been a fan of The Nice but hadn’t even heard of Carl Palmer when the super-talented supergroup blew him away live

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Twisted Sister reuniting for 50th anniversary tour in 2026

I Believe In Rock 'n' Roll hitmakers Twisted Sister have confirmed they are reuniting for a 50th anniversary tour next year.

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"We still wanna rock!": Twisted Sister will tour the world in 2026 to celebrate half a century of Not Taking It

"Fifty years on, and Twisted Sister is still the soundtrack for every rebel with a reason and a reason to turn it up"

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"We didn't want to become known as a ballad band. That's how you become Air Supply": Night Ranger look back on their sudden rise, equally sudden fall, and return to mid-level happiness

How did Night Ranger, a hard rock band with a few good licks and a few bad hairdos, suddenly find themselves in charts and stadiums all over the world?

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“He got up, smashed the table and said, ‘I’ve got the power and I’m never gonna give it up!’ I prayed for sales to bomb. I was happy to see the thing die”: The turbulent story of Twisted Sister’s Stay Hungry, the 80s metal classic that tore the band apart

1984’s Stay Hungry should have turned Twisted Sister into megastars- but it was the beginning of the end for them

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“Allthe labels said, ‘You’re dated.’ If weweren’t doing so well, it would have beencrushing, but we were playing tosold-out crowds”: How forgotten ’80s heroes Zebra earned their stripes as the people’s power-trio

Led by singer/guitarist Randy Jackson, Zebra kept the spirit of Zeppelin, Hendrix and Cream alive. These days, family man Jackson is busy shaping up the group’s first album in two decades

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"It was the only place that Satan wouldn’t be hanging out": Twisted Sister were a long way from home, but Jimmy Page's bathroom was a songwriting refuge

How Twisted Sister convinced their record company they weren't the worst band in the world and made Stay Hungry

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