Shut Up and Give Me the Mic (72 page)

The beautiful Suzette, age seventeen. Yowza!

Rockin’ my favorite Suzette Christmas gift with Jay Jay French, circa 1976.

The game-changing fashion faux pax, as me and Suzette bought the same shirt. For the record, it looked much better on her.

Yet another “Suzette original” Christmas gift in action, this time with a very disco-looking Eddie “Fingers” Ojeda.

Twisted Sister promo photo, 1978.

“Sweet Transvestite”—era Twisted Sister, circa 1979. Look at those legs!

The view from the stage at the sold-out Palladium show in NYC, circa 1979.

Clowning around on our wedding day. That’s Suzette’s co-maid of honor/sister Roseanne on the left.

Me and my best man, “The Animal.” If it weren’t taken in 1981, you’d think the heads were Photoshopped onto the bodies!

Broke, record deal-less, out of work, and happy, fall 1982. I had discovered “it.”

Picture from home, winter ’83. I see my son sit up for the first time, inspiring “The Price.”

Twisted Sister ’81/’82. The look is finally coming together. I have released my inner beast!