By Gene Simmons, Ken Sharp, Paul Stanley
Nothin' to Lose: The Making of KISS (1972-1975) chronicles, for the 1st time, the an important youth of the mythical rock band KISS, culminating with the groundbreaking luck in their vintage 1975 album Alive! and the spoil unmarried "Rock and Roll All Nite," a music that almost 4 a long time later continues to be one in all rock's so much enduring anthems. Drawing on greater than 200 interviews, the publication bargains an enthralling and intimate fly-on-the-wall account in their release, charting the struggles and supreme victories that led them to the brink of superstardom.
Constructed as an oral historical past, the ebook contains unique interviews with Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley, and Peter Criss, in addition to with manufacturers; engineers; administration; list corporation group of workers; roadies; membership vendors; reserving brokers; live performance promoters; dress, level, and paintings designers; rock photographers; publicists; and key song journalists.
Many of KISS's musical contemporaries from the time, such a lot of whom shared live performance accounts with the band on their early excursions, additionally lend their standpoint through new interviews; those comprise Bob Seger, Alice Cooper, and Ted Nugent, in addition to contributors of Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, Rush, Slade, Blue Öyster Cult, Mott the Hoople, trip, REO Speedwagon, Styx, Raspberries, The James Gang, the recent York Dolls, Iggy & the Stooges, The Ramones, Suzi Quatro, Argent, and Uriah Heep, between others.
The result's an indelible and impossible to resist portrait of a band at the upward push and of the track scene they replaced forever.
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