Posts tagged with "Gene Simmons"

NAMM 2022 “BELIEVE IN MUSIC”

NAMM 2022 “BELIEVE IN MUSIC” — VIRTUAL EVENT NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) is both a cultural melting pot and an extended family for music lovers all over the world. Actively engaging in corporate goodwill, the NAMM Foundation supports Save the Music, which has put music instruments into the hands of countless students in public schools. The organization’s spirit of inclusiveness and diversity was clearly present during... 

VIDEO FEATURE & WEB-EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW DESMOND CHILD

VIDEO FEATURE & WEB-EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Songwriter:  DESMOND CHILD Video:  “Beautiful Now” by Zedd ft. Jon Bellion MULTI-PLATINUM HITMAKER DESMOND CHILD TO BE HONORED WITH PRESTIGIOUS ASCAP FOUNDERS AWARD AT 2018 ASCAP POP MUSIC AWARDS IN BEVERLY HILLS APRIL 23  2018 Marks Child’s 40th Year as an ASCAP Member ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) will present Grammy Award winner and Songwriters Hall of Fame... 

KISS

KISS For a long time, beginning in 1999, Paul Stanley wasn’t sure Kiss would make another studio album. Worse, he wasn’t sure he wanted to. Ironically, it was the making of the previous year’s Psycho Circus—the much-ballyhooed record that featured original members Peter Criss and Ace Frehley reunited with Kiss founders Stanley and Gene Simmons—that put Stanley in that frame of mind. As he tells it, Criss and Frehley were recalcitrant participants,... 

KISS

  KISS WAS A FULL YEAR AWAY FROM SUPERSTARDOM when photographer Norman Seeff shot this L.A. session for the cover of 1974’s Hotter Than Hell. When Gene Simmons, Peter Criss, Paul Stanley and Ace Frehley (above, from left) entered his studio in full costume, says Seeff, “I was incredulous. My first thought was, ‘Are they covering up for mediocrity?’ Of course I was completely wrong about that.” Seeff quickly realized the foursome had... 
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