"The first video we did for 'The Family Ghost' was in England, and we had hired two girls to do the makeup for me. “I’ve always done my makeup, from day one," said the singer. Elsewhere within the chat, King Diamond answered another fan asking for makeup tips. The makeup has become an identifiable part of King Diamond's stage performance, whether with Mercyful Fate or out on his own. It never got to be a lawsuit, it just got stirred up.” He went on to add, "I said, ‘I don’t have a lot of money that you can sue me for, but you have a lot of money that other people can sue you for.’ They were not the first to wear makeup. I was never influenced by them – my influences were Peter Gabriel and Alice Cooper." Reflecting on the initial incident, King Diamond offered, "There’s a lot of reasons why this happened: they’d dropped their makeup around this time, but they still had the copyright on the look.
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