It would have obviously been a lot easier to get up on stage in jeans and T-shirts and go, ‘Okay, here we are–we’re the Ramones!’ And that would have been just as valid, but it would not have been honest.”Īccording to Simmons, there was nobody involved in the creating of the four iconic makeup looks as he was the one who sat in front of a mirror in a loft in downtown New York and drew on himself. That’s where the makeup and dressing up came in. Getting up on stage was almost a holy place for us, like church, so being on stage looking like a bum wasn’t my idea of respect. This doesn’t negate what the Dead and other bands were doing it just wasn’t us. We weren’t a Grateful Dead kind of band that would get onstage and look worse than the roadie delivering our stuff. In the very first pictures we took when the band first got together, we looked like drag queens. Well, we were more like football players all of us were over 6 feet tall, and it just wasn’t convincing!

You know, all the skinny little guys, hairless boys. Finally, the real story of the man behind the make-up.“At the same time that we were forming in New York, there was a very big glitter scene, where boys were basically acting like girls and putting on makeup. Undoubtedly one of the most infamous rock and roll legends alive, Gene tells the never before revealed story of KISS's reign as the biggest and most popular band in the world.

Delivered in Gene's own honest, outrageous and uncensored voice, he tells of his early beginnings in Israel, of his arrival in New York at the age of eight, his first taste of 1950s pop culture and his developing thirst for fame, fun and girls. Read more the explosive rock and roll group KISS, tells his story. Here for the first time Gene Simmons, the notorious mainman of. Gene Simmons lives in Beverley Hills, California, and was recently the rock star teacher on Channel 4's Rock School. He also launched his film and TV producing career with Detroit Rock City for New Line Cinema. Gene Simmons has also acted in films and on television, has written and produced albums for other recording artists, has managed the recording career of, among others, Liza Minelli, and was founder and president of his own recording label, Simmons Records/RCA. KISS has released thirty-seven records and sold 80 million albums worldwide. This work talks about the author's early beginnings in Israel, of his arrival in New York at the age of eight, his first taste of 1950s pop culture and his thirst for fame, fun and girls. Tells the story of Kiss' reign as the biggest, most fiercely adulated band in the world. Description for Kiss and Make-up Paperback.

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