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Wonder where some of your 80s rocker faves ended up? We did too. Two hours and three tallboys later, here’s who we found. Behold.

Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider. Photo: urbanmixer

Paul Stanley of KISS. Photo: beddiewedder

Ronnie James Dio. Photo: Marek Krajcer

Warrant’s Janie Lane. Photo: beddiwedder

Stephen Pearcy of RATT. Photo: Äppelmos

Tesla’s Brian Wheat and Frank Hannon. Photo: vazzz

W Axl Rose of Guns N Roses. Photo: Cuene Chiste

Night Ranger’s Jack Blades. Photo: zengrrl

Taime Downe of Faster Pussycat. Photo: bantam10

Mike Reno of Loverboy. Photo: michiee

Don Dokken. Photo: beddiwedder

Quiet Riot’s Kevin DuBrow. Photo: BradP

The Scorpions. Photo by Photo Agency

David Coverdale of Whitesnake. Photo: emalaith

Phil Collen of Def Leppard. Photo: kaleid

Lita Ford. Photo: shadowgate

Alice Cooper. Photo: denaflows

Kip Winger. Photo: Rick

Sammy Hagar and, inexplicably, David Hasselhoff. Photo: suzanneandsimon

Van Halen’s David Lee Roth. Photo: anirudhkoul

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About The Author

Tom Gates

Tom is a wayward writer based in Los Angeles. He has served as Editor for both Matador Nights and Life. He loves to go far, far away whenever possible. He is also pretending to be a third person right now and is obviously writing his own bio. He knows that you knew that, despite the deft maneuvering of pronouns. Tom's new book 'Wayward: Fetching Tales from a Year On The Road' is available for download on Amazon and iTunes.

Archived Responses to Twenty 80s rockers…Twenty years later

  1. It is hard to believe that they have all got even uglier as they got older, that is truly scary…….

  2. Alouise says:

    I saw Dee Snider and Alice Cooper when I worked at an airport a few years ago. Even without all the makeup and outfits you could tell it was them. Alice Cooper was coming by after the Junos (the Canadian version of the Grammy’s). He was super nice to everyone, gave out autographs and talked to his fans even though he was catching a flight.

  3. ROCKDRIGO says:

    LITA IS HOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

  4. [...] Nobody knew what they’d look like over 20 years later. [...]

  5. [...] is the disputed name of the road that leads to Hank Williams’ grave. It’s been covered by both poofy-haired glam metal-ers(Firehouse) and poofy-haired country singers (Dolly [...]

  6. [...] what your favorite favorite rockers look like now? Looking for the ultimate metal playlist for your iPod? Or how about some surviving your first [...]

  7. [...] forester cabin turned bar/club: Grüner Jäger (Green Hunter). It attracts Hamburg’s indie, 80s, and gig loving [...]

  8. Kevin says:

    DIO actually died as well. Nice pics!!

  9. Ally says:

    Oh God. Axl used to be such a babe. WTF happened?

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