Big Hair Video Lair

  • Pearls Before Swine

    Year: 1984 Song: “Slow an’ Easy,” by Whitesnake Yeah, yeah, Whitesnake isn’t really hair metal (a conversation that deeply confused a dear friend recently when she asked “which is better, Poison or Whitesnake?”), but David Coverdale has a magnificent head of hair and “Here I Go Again” has become genre iconography. And before Tawny, there was the accidentally

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  • When You’re Lost Out There and You’re All Alone, Bon Jovi’s Waiting to Carry You Home

    Year: 1984 Song: “Runaway,” by Bon Jovi “I hate videos. If you wanted to torture me you’d tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos…The first time we’d just made a record and we were all excited and some a–hole decides we’re going to make a video for ‘Runaway.’ So instead of making

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  • Dee Snider’s School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

    Year: 1984 Song: “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” by Twisted Sister Confession: I love Dee Snider. I love his curly hair and his radio show and the fact that he’s been with his wife forever. Most of all, I love his testimony to the PMRC and the fact that it gave us this, which frankly is so

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