The film will be produced by Canton through his Atmosphere Entertainment, Leigh Ann Burton through Opus 7, Courtney Solomon, David Blackman and Jody Gerson through Universal Music Group, Doc McGhee through his McGee Entertainment (he is KISS’ longtime manager), Rønning and KISS’ Simmons and Stanley. KISS has sold more than 100 million records, has 30 Gold and 14 Platinum albums, and they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014. Their perseverance paid off with KISS Alive! a mega-selling live album that for a time saved Casablanca Records and made them a top-selling and global touring band. At an early downtown date, they heard snickers from their glam counterparts “until we plugged in and played, and then everyone’s mouths hung open,” Simmons said. “All the glitter-rock bands had wrists as thin as their girlfriends did, and here we looked like linebackers who had raided their girlfriends’ closets,” Stanley said. “I played him a song that ended up on our first album, and he played three for me, one about soup.” Combining Simmons’ passion for comics with the ’70s Gotham glitter-rock craze, they hit the makeup mirror with a specific goal: “Become the Beatles on steroids.” “Gene felt he, Lennon and McCartney were the only ones who wrote music,” Stanley once said.
And when I played music, there were always girls around.”Īlthough their musical motives matched, Simmons and Stanley didn’t instantly mesh when they met. “I was this short, fat kid, and music became my salvation, a place to hide and dream. “I was deaf in one ear and had a slight deformity that made me look different,” Stanley said.
Stanley, the lead singer with the jet-engine vocals, wasn’t always sex-symbol material. ‘Terror In Tinseltown’: Mötley Crüe Manager & Exec Producer Allen Kovac On ‘The Dirt’s 18-Year Journey To Screen “It occurred to me this was better than religion. “I remember walking out onto the street, seeing this Spanish girl jumping rope across the street, and staring at her long black hair slapping against this great butt,” he once said. Picture the fire-breathing, blood-dripping demonic and growly voiced bass player Simmons at age 12, when he was a Hasidic Orthodox Jew from Israel who found a new faith one fateful day while exiting the yeshiva.
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