

The closing location makes sense for the venerable rockers, who burst out of New York 50 years ago. Simmons added that he was sure he would “cry like a 9-year-old girl whose foot is being stepped on” during Kiss’ last moments on stage.Įd Sheeran goes deep: New album will confront his 'darkest thoughts' It’s everything Kiss – just amped up and ramped up. … It’s clearly a kick-ass rock ‘n’ roll show.


“When you come to see the show, it’s awesome. “We’re finishing up where we started,” Stanley told Stern, flanked by his bandmates in full makeup. 1-2 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. It really is the end of the road for Kiss.īut this time we’ll believe Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons when they announced Wednesday on Sirius XM’s “The Howard Stern Show” that the band’s final concerts will be Dec. In vivid detail Gene recounts his childhood growing up in Haifa under the watchful eye of his beloved, strong-willed mother, a concentration camp survivor his adolescent years attending a Jewish theological center for rabbinical studies in Brooklyn his love of all things American, including comic books, superheroes, and cowboys and his early fascination with girls and sex, which prompted him to start a rock band in school after he saw the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show.Watch Video: KISS rocker Gene Simmons talks about what goes into preparing for show Before Gene Simmons there was Chaim Witz, a boy from Haifa, Israel, who had no inkling of the life that lay ahead of him. KISS and Make-Up is the wild, shocking, unbelievable story, from the man himself, about how an immigrant boy from Israel studied to be a rabbi, was saved by rock and roll, and became one of the most notorious rock stars the world has ever seen. There would have been no KISS without Gene Simmons, the outrageous star whose superlong tongue, legendary sexual exploits, and demonic makeup have made him a rock icon. The band has sold more than eighty million records, has broken every concert attendance record set by Elvis Presley and the Beatles, stands behind the Beatles alone in number of gold records from any group in history, and has spawned more than 2,500 licenses.

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