Trivia / Twisted Sister

• Chart Displacement: "I Wanna Rock" charted lower than their cover of "Leader of the Pack", and is also the lowest charting of their five that entered on Mainstream Rock.
• Creator Backlash: During some of their early concerts, they would hang an effigy of Barry White as a Disco Sucks statement. That quickly ended after one show in upstate New York, where the mostly White male patrons started cheering and yelling "Hang the n——r!" in approval. As a multiracial band that simply thought disco was overexposed and saw Barry White as a symbol of it, they were shocked by this reaction and quickly removed the effigy from future stage shows.
• Died During Production: Once A.J. Pero died, the band decided to call it a career (aside from farewell concerts with a guest drummer).
  • The band has explained that they were actually already planning on retiring before Pero died (as the standards they hold themselves to when performing are extremely high and physical, they wanted to end before they physically couldn't do what they do anymore).
• Executive Meddling: The band wanted Stay Hungry to be a pure Hard Rock album, but Atlantic Records and producer Tom Werman made them go with a glossy Hair Metal sound instead. Twenty years later, Still Hungry was created primarily to demonstrate what sound they had intended for that album.
• He Also Did: Dee Snider also wrote "The Magic of Christmas Day (God Bless Us Everyone)" for his wife, which eventually found its way to a one Céline Dion.
• Meme Acknowledgment: In Latin America, a popular way to sing the band's hit "We're Not Gonna Take It" is by mispronouncing it as "Huevos con aceite (y limón)". For a tour around Chile in 2013, Dee Snider not only encouraged the public to shout the joke lyrics, but even added that the only thing it was missing was "Twisted fuckin' Sister". This is proceeded by both the band and the public playing out the song that way!
• Promoted Fanboy: Mike Portnoy. Sadly, it was not under the best of circumstances.
• Referenced by...: The Spongebob Squarepants Movie features a parody of "I Wanna Rock" themed around the Goofy Goober theme song that shows up on four other occasions in the film. Dee Snider later stated in an interview that he was initially opposed to licensing the song out for the movie, but acquiesced after being told how much money he'd get paid.
• Two-Hit Wonder: Technically they're a One-Hit Wonder as only "We're Not Gonna Take It" reached the top 40, but certainly fit more here as "I Wanna Rock" is just as well remembered.

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