PAUL STANLEY Condemns GENE SIMMONS' Comments On PRINCE's Death As "Clueless"; Simmons Posts Apology
May 11, 2016, 8 years ago
KISS legend Gene Simmons is being raked over the coals once again, this time for comments he made about music icon Prince's recent tragic death.
“Bowie was the most tragic of all because it was real sickness,” Simmons told Newsweek in a new interview where he discusses recently deceased musicians David Bowie - who died at 69 in January - and Prince, just 57 at the time of his death in April.
“All the other ones were a choice.” Even Prince? “His drugs killed him. What do you think, he died from a cold?”
Simmons continues: “I think Prince was heads, hands and feet above all the rest of them. I thought he left [Michael] Jackson in the dust. Prince was way beyond that. But how pathetic that he killed himself. Don’t kid yourself, that’s what he did. Slowly, I’ll grant you... but that’s what drugs and alcohol is: a slow death.”
Read the rest of the interview at this location.
Simmons' comments pissed off a legion of fans, including KISS co-founder Paul Stanley, who posted the following message on Twitter:
Embarrassed by cold clueless statements re Prince's death. Without all the facts better to say nothing. My apologies https://t.co/Arb5XQ4o7l
— Paul Stanley (@PaulStanleyLive) 10 May 2016
Simmons has since posted an apology online. It appears in its entirety below.
— Gene Simmons (@genesimmons) 11 May 2016
