Who knows an American band called kiss?

Kiss is a gorgeous live rock band. With its cartoon image and peculiar costumes, it became an idol for many young people in the 1970s. Gene simmons and Paul Stanley from New York wrote Kiss based on Evil Lester. They advertised in Rolling Stone magazine and hired drummer Peter Chris and guitarist Ace Frauley. In every performance, Simmons was dressed as a lizard-like devil, Stanley was painted with stars, Frary was dressed as an alien, and Chris was dressed as a cat man.

After the band's third live concert, TV producer Bill Aucoin helped them sign a contract with Casablanca. Soon after, three more albums were released: Kiss (1974), hot Than Hell( 1974),1975 (1975)-and then a series of performances.

The live album "Alive" ranged from 65438 to 0975, and the band aimed at the mainstream audience. This album became the seventh ranked version of the album, creating the top 20 single version of "Rock All Nite". It was this single that turned the eyes of young people in the 1970s to bands, and Kiss became one of the most influential rock bands in the 1970s. 1976' s album "Destroyer" is the band's first album with platinum sales, mainly due to Chris' single "Beth" dedicated to his wife, which ranks seventh in the single version and is also a classic of the band.

From 1976 to 1979, it was the most "hot" years for Kiss. The band created a series of platinum albums, including 1976 Rock, 1977 Love Gun and 65438+ Live II. During this period, Kiss band was a money-making machine: the market was full of Kiss masks; Kiss's table chess game; Comedy books about Kiss, even the movie Kiss Meets the Phantom of Park; There are hundreds of Kiss fan clubs all over the country. Although Kiss releases two or three albums a year on average, it still can't meet the needs of fans, which makes the band have to release four solo albums of band members on 1978 respectively!

In the early 1980s, the popularity of this band began to decline. 1980, Criss left the band to start his solo career, and Eric Carr took his place. The album Elders in 198 1 shows the change of the band's music style: this opera-style album invited an orchestra and a choir. There is no doubt that this is a failure, with only 500,000 copies sold. Frary was the second person to leave the band. He was replaced by guitarist Vinny Vincent. After that, the album "creatures of the night" didn't get gold-level sales either. The band found it was time to take action. They started to manage their own band business, and 1983' s album "Lick It Up" finally won platinum sales. In the following time, the band changed guitarists frequently and released a series of successful albums. Unbelievable (1993) is an alternative work, including the single "Do you love me? In the name of nirvana. . 1994, the album "Kiss My Ass" is more inclined to mainstream music.

1996, several veteran members of Kiss band: Simmons, Frailey, Stanley and Chris got together again because of recording the album MTV Unplugged, and released the album Psycho-Circus in 1998, which included many classic tracks of the band in the 1970s.