Book description
KISS has released thirty-seven records and sold 80 million albums
worldwide. 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. He also
launched his film and TV producing career with Detroit Rock
City for New Line Cinema. Gene Simmons lives in Beverley Hills,
California, and was recently the rock star teacher on Channel 4's Rock School.
Here for the first time Gene Simmons, the notorious mainman of the
explosive rock and roll group KISS, tells his story. 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. 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.
Finally, the real story of the man behind the make-up.
Gene Simmons
was born in Israel in 1949; eight years later he arrived in New York
City unable to speak a word of English. He played in a number of rock
bands before co-founding the best rock and roll band of the 1970s: KISS.
Over the successive decades, he has proved himself as one of the world's
best bassists. He lives with his partner and two children in Los
Angeles.
