From Newsday.com:
Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider and magician Criss Angel, both Long Island natives, have teamed up for a piano-ballad rendition of the band's Eighties anthem "We're Not Gonna Take It" to help raise awareness for Angel's charity, HELP, which stands for Heal Every Life Possible, and raises money to fight childhood cancer. In October 2015, it was announced Angel's then 20-month-old son, Johnny Crisstopher Sarantakos, had been diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
The Angel-directed video was filmed "in the deserts outside of Las Vegas," according to RollingStone.com. In the first few seconds of the video, viewers can read powerful facts about cancer while seeing images of cancer-stricken children.
I know I could live the rest of my life without ever hearing the original "We're Not Gonna Take It" again, but this rendition is pretty stunning - Dee certainly turned in a heck of a performance and I love this arrangement. On piano in this video is Eliot Douglass of Cirque du Soleil's "Zumanity".
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