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Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 17 April 1976
WE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN that the total eccentricity of approach, the gross make-up and the blanket heavy metal music would have eventually ensured that Kiss ...
Interview by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 13 February 1982
"What Alice Cooper was to dead babies and corpses, Kiss became to fire breathing and sadomasochism. With Kabuki-whitened faces, they leap on stage puking blood, ...
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Report by Dave Marsh, Melody Maker, 6 October 1973
GREAT WHITE ROCK has not often come from New York City and its surrounding boroughs, even though – or perhaps because the American music business ...
Kiss: Fillmore East, New York NY
Live Review by Bob Merlis, Circular, 21 January 1974
Kiss Blitz Fillmore East — AND HOW! ...
Report by Marty Cerf, Phonograph Record, April 1974
IN CONCERT, Midnight Special and Rock Concert will herald mutations, they'll create new music concepts after they themselves are long retired. Dick Clark foresees pop ...
Kiss: Kiss (Casablanca Records 9001)
Review by Harold Tribune, Zoo World, 11 April 1974
SOME RECORDS by new groups on new labels might be looked on with considerably more disinterest than what's greeted this release. Just as Casablanca Records ...
Review by Alan Betrock, Phonograph Record, February 1975
OUT OF THE ASHES of the New York rock scene came Kiss. They have clearly been elevated (symbolically echoing the ascent their drummer makes during ...
Report and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 15 February 1975
LOS ANGELES: "We sold out two houses in Detroit at 12,000 each and were the biggest thing to hit the city since the Beatles. People ...
Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 22 February 1975
UP UNTIL Max Bell gave us his reasoned defence of Kiss a couple of weeks ago, I had assumed they were simply an also ran ...
Kiss: "Big Bands Hate Us 'Cause We Steal Their Audiences"
Interview by Dan Nooger, Circus, March 1975
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Kiss, Jo Jo Gunne: Beacon Theater, New York NY
Live Review by Toby Goldstein, Billboard, 12 April 1975
AS KISS thundered onstage March 21, for the first of two shows, it was clearly a case of "hail the conquering heroes." The sold-out crowd ...
Report and Interview by Ron Ross, Circus, July 1975
THE FLAMING ROCK 'n' holocaust that Kiss brings to the stage has caused many intimidated headlining groups to ban the New York nitro-rockers from appearing ...
I Dreamed I Was Onstage With KISS In My Maidenform Bra
Report and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, August 1975
WELL, NOT exactly my idea of the perfect fantasy, but I was curious about life on the other side of the foot-lights. Armed with an ...
Review by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, December 1975
KISS IS THE musical answer to what to do after Mark Famer goes home to the farm to chase cows one last time, and Alice ...
AUDIO: Casablanca Records' Neil Bogart (1976)
Audio transcript of interview by Jim Esposito, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1976
This is a transcript of Jim's 1976 interview with the Casablanca disco mogul. Hear the audio here. ...
Kiss: Destroyer (Casablanca NBLP 7025)
Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, 1976
KISS CAME into prominence, to put it simplistically, by combining Alice Cooper's horrific visuals and theatrics with Grand Funk's heavy-rock simplicity and lyrical solidarity with ...
Kiss: Pssst! Wanna Buy the Sistine Chapel?
Special Feature by Robert Duncan, Creem, March 1976
"Business art is the step that comes after Art... Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. During the hippie era people ...
Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 24 April 1976
IF EVER A GROUP have made it huge in America by carefully manipulated saturation in terms of records, concerts and promotion then Kiss are that ...
Profile and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 15 May 1976
"I DON'T feel I have to defend myself to you, and I won't take your criticism either. I'd take the criticism of a fan, though. ...
Kiss: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 22 May 1976
MAN, KISS HAD everything; every single effect in the book. They had a perfect lighting system; dry ice; smoke bombs; a fire-eater; a huge lighted ...
Kiss: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 22 May 1976
THE LADY on the door was most persuasive. "Would you take a Kiss mask? Please...go on have a couple, we're trying to get rid of ...
Kiss: Where No Band Has Tread Before
Profile by Michael Gross, Marvel Comics, 1977
THE BEST WAY to understand KISS is to look at the faces in the concert-going crowd, tens of thousands of faces attached to the fans ...
Report and Interview by Robert Duncan, Creem, January 1977
OR THE GENERAL TAKES ON THE BAT LIZARD AND THE PIRATE DOG by Robert Duncan W.L.A.O.R.G.K.* ...
Kiss: Rock And Roll Over (Casablanca Import)
Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 15 January 1977
The Red Carpet, but no Heat Treatment ...
The Day the Earth Stood KISS, Pt. 2
Interview by Robert Duncan, Creem, February 1977
THE CREEM GENE SIMMONS RODENT OF PREY INTERVIEW ...
Review by Lester Bangs, Circus, 14 February 1977
LIKE MANY OTHER citizens of Lower Manhattan, I feel guilty. The reason I feel guilty is, however, not the same as the other 2,833,756 culpable ...
Report and Interview by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 16 July 1977
From human beings to cardboard cut-outs. Kiss defy orthopaedic surgery... ...
Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 30 July 1977
"Hey, Gene.""What, Peter?""What are we doing in one of Farren's record reviews?" ...
Kiss: Love Gun Is a Real Bazooka
Interview by Wesley Strick, Circus, 4 August 1977
Behind the Scenes of the First Kiss Simulated Concept LP ...
Report and Interview by Michael Gross, Swank, September 1977
Why four American rockers are the hottest thing since the Enola Gay ...
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 17 September 1977
'LOS ANGELES Police Department reminds you the use of fire works is illegal,' warned the notice outside the Los Angeles Forum. With all the bravado ...
Bay City Rollers: It's A Game (Arista AL 7004); Kiss: Love Gun (Casablanca NBLP 7057)
Review by Toby Goldstein, Crawdaddy!, October 1977
KISSING OFF BAY CITY'S ROLES ...
Love Gun: Kiss, Love it or Leave it!
Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Creem, Fall 1977
REMEMBER THE old 'Grand Funk Understand' riff? Well, maybe so, and maybe not — it was a long time ago back in the year of ...
Kiss: Speak For Yourself, Gene
Interview by Kris DiLorenzo, Grooves, 1978
Grooves: So what kind of kid would you characterize yourself as? ...
Report and Interview by Wesley Strick, Circus, 5 January 1978
Photographing Gene Simmons Reveals the Minds Behind the Masquerade ...
Essay by Robert Duncan, Creem, February 1978
Dreams Realized, Generations Defined and KISS ALIVE! ...
Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 26 August 1978
TWENTY-EIGHT year-old Gene Simmons of New York City, New York, is sitting in his hotel-room near Marble Arch. It's four o'clock on a humid Friday ...
Special Feature by Robert Duncan, Rock Scene, September 1978
So the dream is over. Again. ...
Kiss: An Interview With Ace Frehley
Interview by Kris DiLorenzo, Grooves, October 1978
Grooves: As a kid, were you tough? Were you a street kid? Were you a quiet kid or...class clown or what? ...
Interview by Dave Schulps, Trouser Press, December 1978
WINTER 1974: When I saw the cover of the first Kiss album, I laughed. I mean, here were these four geeks looking like rejects from ...
Kiss: The Timeless Quality Of Platform Boots
Interview by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 3 February 1979
KISS' PAUL STANLEY, GEOFF BARTON AND 'PERHAPS THE GREATEST INTERVIEW OF ALL TIME' ...
Kiss: Bat Lizard Rocks The Boat
Interview by Susan Whitall, Creem, April 1979
There was an appointed place: a hotel room in the gleaming steel rod Henry the Deuce built on the Detroit River to atone for the ...
Queen: Live Killers (EMI)/KISS: Dynasty (Casablanca)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 30 June 1979
PROFESSIONAL ENTERTAINMENT! It's the best, it never quits, there's nothing like it. It's the real thing! It's sound and light and colour and spectacle to ...
Kiss: Ecstasy in the Garden of Eden
Report by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 11 August 1979
AN UNAPOLOGETICALLY OVER THE TOP REPORT OF KISS IN NEW YORK. BY GEOFF BARTON, OUR MAN WITH THE FRIED FLESH AND SINGED EYEBROWS ...
Review by Jeffrey Morgan, Creem, October 1979
"We had some good times, but now they're gone. So long." -- Ace Frehley, 'Save Your Love' ...
Live Review by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 20 September 1980
AWWWRIGHT LONDON!! ARE YA STARTING TO SWEAT?! ...
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 18 December 1982
BACK IN the days before Asteroids took over, Kiss was the pagan religion for America's pimpled adolescents. ...
Interview by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 5 August 1989
The macho world of Heavy Metal is not the most likely place to find a female film director, but PENELOPE SPHEERIS took her camera and ...
Report and Interview by Steve Mascord, Kerrang!, 16 June 1990
In the inauspicious surroundings of small town America it sounds like a storm is brewing. It's the eve of the new KISS world tour and ...
Heavy Metal Mania: It's More Than Music
Overview by Deanne Stillman, The New York Times, 12 May 1991
With myriad clubs, fanzines and hair salons, rude dudeness (tattoos included) is a way of life. ...
Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, June 1992
Shameless image-mongers? Absolutely. Cynical marketing merchants? Good point. Purveyors of welterweight pop metal? Fair comment. But gay? "You’ll meet enough women who’ll tell you we’re ...
Kiss: The Tongue Remains The Same
Interview by David Quantick, New Musical Express, 6 June 1992
Wise up puckers! Are Neanderthal Moz-bashers KISS born-again rawk monsters or lip-smackin' duds? Ironic or moronic? Sexy or sexist? DAVID QUANTICK trades, ahem, licks with ...
Report and Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, GQ, January 1994
As the nation turns its lonely eyes to the Seventies for inspiration, they alight fondly on Kiss, who were stupider and crasser than anyone — ...
Report and Interview by Roy Trakin, Musician, February 1994
Collapsing stages in Japan! Elephant farts in Vegas! Eskimo shows in Alaska! A Survey of Abominable Venues and Disastrous Shows! ...
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 1996
KISS MY ASS, they're thinking of calling the KISS tribute album . "If people think I'm smug about any of this stuff", says Gene Simmons, ...
Kiss: Palace Of Auburn Hills, Detroit
Live Review by Ben Edmonds, MOJO, January 1997
CAN NOTHING stop these brutes? ...
Review by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, January 1998
Kiss/ Hotter Than Hell// Dressed To Kill/ Alive!/ Destroyer/ Rock And Roll Over/ Love Gun/ Alive II/ Double Platinum/ Dynasty/ Unmasked/ Music From The Elder/ ...
Kiss and Tell: The Ultimate Show Band Talk about Music, Makeup, and More
Report and Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 6 November 1998
TAKE A LOOK at the picture of KISS accompanying this story. You may now stop reading, if you wish, or so says KISS bassist-singer Gene ...
An Interview with Bruce Kulick
Interview by Joe Matera, Powerplay, 2002
Former KISS six-stringer Bruce Kulick needs no introduction. He is a well-respected musician, songwriter and guitarist in his own right. After his stint in one ...
Gene Simmons: Kiss and Make-up - The Autobiography of Gene Simmons (Century)
Review by Tim Clifford, Rock's Backpages, March 2002
THEY WANTED to dress like comic-book superheroes and write football-terrace anthems like Slade. Out of such dumb genius, vast fortunes are made. Kiss were also ...
Kiss And Make-Up: Gene Simmons
Interview by Joel McIver, Bass Guitar, August 2003
Joel McIver asks entrepreneur, record company head, insatiable groupie-pleasurer and – oh yes – unfeasibly long-tongued Kiss bassist Gene Simmons about his four-string habits, and ...
Interview by Jon Wilde, Uncut, March 2006
They came from Detroit City but could have leapt from the pages of a DC comic. Thirty years ago, KISS — the biggest and trashiest ...
Gene Simmons: Into The Belly Of The Beast
Interview by Elmo Keep, www.fasterlouder.com.au, 20 February 2008
"This is Gene Simmons," says the voice on the phone. There I was, sitting – more correctly, innocently lounging – in the meeting room of ...
Kiss: Overblown, Overpaid And Over Here
Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 30 May 2008
For the headliners of Download heavy metal festival, there are millions to be made, fans to ogle (and sometimes sleep with), and platform boots to ...
Paul Stanley: Face the Music – A Life Exposed (HarperOne)
Book Review by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 9 April 2014
WITH THE publication of this glitter-, greasepaint- and leather-slathered tome, all four original members of KISS have now penned their autobiographies. ...
What happened when Kiss went to Moscow
Report and Interview by Kate Mossman, New Statesman, 18 May 2017
WHEN GENE SIMMONS decided he wanted to be a rock star, he made a deal with his mother: be in a band but show me how ...
Report and Interview by Henry Yates, Classic Rock, 11 December 2018
The Demon looks back on a year of booming business – and ahead to the KISS split. ...
see also Frehley's Comet
see also Gene Simmons
see also Bruce Kulick
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