Rock Stars & Their 'Magical Transformations'
Well frosty website Gigwise.com has compiled a sometimes-fascinating list of ‘before´ and ‘after´ shots of well known musicians, the timeframe relating being on or off-stage.
Some of the examples are a bit, well, shaky, such as shots of Jay Kay both with and...well... without a big, fat hat, and the less said about the Slipknot collection the better, but there are some notable eye poppers: see Kiss frontman Paul ‘Stanley Eisen´ Stanley below, for example.
Actually, he's pretty cool whatever he's dressed as...
Our favourite is Angus Young, a man who deserves downright worship from anyone reading this. Well, follow the link below to the Gigwise.com front page and see for yourself, but you'd miss him if you passed him in the street...
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Simon Bradley is a guitar and especially rock guitar expert who worked for Guitarist magazine and has in the past contributed to world-leading music and guitar titles like MusicRadar (obviously), Guitarist, Guitar World and Louder. What he doesn't know about Brian May's playing and, especially, the Red Special, isn't worth knowing.
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