Kiss
By David Downs
Theatrical hard rock icons Kiss mashed up an amalgam of influences like Alice Cooper, New York Dolls, Slade, and Led Zeppelin into one of mainstream music’s biggest marketing juggernauts. With their trademark skin-tight costumes, Kabuki makeup, and pyrotechnics, they defined a style of stage show that would heavily influence the 1980s glam rock era. Of course, it helped that the band had the hard rocking hooks and crooning ballads to pack arenas. Originally the brainchild of unapologetic music mercenary and Israeli immigrant Gene Simmons (bass, vocals) and New Yorker Paul Stanley (rhythm guitar, vocals), the band saw the addition of drummer Peter Criss and guitarist Ace Frehley into a now-legendary line-up by... Read More
- Genre:
- Rock, Hard Rock
- City Of Origin:
- New York, ,New York United States
- Formed Date:
- 1973
