Gene Simmons - "We Made KISS, With Our Look, All The Pyrotechnics Of Our Live Show, The Epitome Of Everything We Wanted From A Band"
October 14, 2009, 14 years ago
Emma Jones from the BBC News is reporting:
Rock band KISS are celebrating their 35th year in the music charts with the release of their first studio album in nearly a decade, Sonic Boom.
The band, who formed in New York in 1973, have sold more than 80 million albums worldwide.
"KISS started as a dream of ours," explains Gene Simmons, the band's bassist."All the bands we ever saw on stage played the hits we wanted to hear, but were devastatingly poor in their visual live performance."
That is definitely an indictment from a man wearing full armour and the trademark black- and-white warpaint, which has given Kiss their unique identity.
At 60 years old, Simmons's stage persona is still The Demon.
To some TV viewers, he is known as the reality star of Rock School and Gene Simmons Family Jewels. To others, he is best known as "the man with the longest tongue in music".
"We made KISS, with our look, all the pyrotechnics of our live show, the epitome of everything we wanted from a band," Simmons adds."And now here we are 35 years later and I think we've released one of the best records of our career."
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