Music Album: Detroit Rock City
Album Release Date: April 1994
Music Genre: Rock Reggae Hard Rock Ska Classic Rock
Record Label: Mercury
Album Release Country: United States
Music Record Type: 2 Tracks Vinyl Album 7"
Kiss were formed in Queens, New York (USA) in 1973. Often stylized 'KISS' they play rock, hard rock and 1980s hair/glam metal.
Easily identified by its members' face paint and flamboyant stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid to late 1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting, smoking guitars, shooting rockets, levitating drum kits and pyrotechnics. Kiss has been awarded 24 gold albums to date. The band has sold more than 40 million albums in the United States, of which 19 million have been certified by the RIAA, and their worldwide sales exceeds 100 million albums.
Kiss trace their roots to Wicked Lester (2), a New York City-based rock and roll band led by co-founders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley. Wicked Lester, with its eclectic mixture of musical styles, never achieved any success. They recorded one album, which was shelved by Epic Records, and played a handful of live shows. Simmons and Stanley, feeling that a new musical direction was needed, abandoned Wicked Lester in 1972 and began forming a new group.
In late 1972, Simmons and Stanley came across an ad in the East Coast version of Rolling Stone placed by Peter Criss, a veteran drummer from the New York club scene, who was previously in bands called Lips and Chelsea. Criss auditioned for and joined the new version of Wicked Lester. T (...)
| A | Detroit Rock City | 4:21 |
| B | Detroit Rock City | 5:20 |
Side A: From the Mercury LP, CD, & Cassette "Kiss My Ass" 314 522 123-1/2/4
Side B: From the Casablanca/Mercury CD & Cassette "Destroyer". 824 149-2/4
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