KISS
BEST OF ’87/’88: Their landmark 21st LP, Crazy Nights. PROFILE: The grandaddies of anthem rock, make-up and platform shoes, Kiss set the standard for a generation of swaggering glam rock bands. With LP sales totalling 50 million (so far), Kiss’ 15-year, 21-album career is far from over.
KISS
THE RETURN OF THE '70s
BEST OF ’87/’88: Their landmark 21st LP, Crazy Nights.
PROFILE: The grandaddies of anthem rock, make-up and platform shoes, Kiss set the standard for a generation of swaggering glam rock bands. With LP sales totalling 50 million (so far), Kiss’ 15-year, 21-album career is far from over. WHAT’S IN A NAME: (Original line-uj)) G. Simmons was born Gene Klein t'n August 25 in N.Y.; P. Criss born Peter Crisscoula Dec. 20 in N.Y.; Paul “Ace ” Frehley born April 22 in the Bronx; ard "Paul” Stanley Eisen born January 20 n Queens.
FIRST GIG: Jan. 30, 1973 at a smlll rock club in Queens called the Coventi /. They earned $30 and their first encor;.
MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT: Jan. 1,1975, when Gene’s fire-breathing set his hair ablaze.
FAVE FILMS: Kiss Meets The Phantc v Of The Park (TV movie filmed at Mac ic Mountain amusement park), Runawiy and Never Too Young Too Die.
MOST DARING FEAT: When Kiss Appeared on MTV without make-up for t le first time National evening news |ebroadcast the historical event.