Coming up the story of a song released under a heavy dispute between a Glam Rock God, and the King of early 90s Soft Rock. It was Paul Stanley of Kiss vs. Michael Bolton. The Co-writing credits read that both wrote the power ballad Forever. It was also the first hit by Kiss in more than 12 years. During that dry spell, two members of the original lineup were gone Ace Frehley and Peter Criss, and so was the legendary look of the band. It was a bold and risky move to change their image… Unmask… take off their iconic makeup. But would that radical change pay off? Get a front-row seat to the dispute between the hard rocker and the soft rock balladeer and the crazy antics of Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley and Kiss. Find out how everything turned out…..NEXT….on Professor of Rock.
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I always love the comeback story. It’s always an entertaining tale of the ups and downs of the music business. I love seeing how bands remake themselves and live to fight another day, especially after going big and then having to adjust when a new musical movement changes the industry and that band has to wrestle with the changes to remain relevant as well as balancing that with their artistic integrity. It’s a tough balance and an even tougher business.
Well, as we’ve discussed before. The first time the fire-breathing band KISS were in desperate need of a hit single, the band acquiesced to record label pressure and released “Beth,” a ballad written by original drummer Peter Criss. It was a dangerous artistic departure, that could’ve been a Destroyer, as the name of the album implied.
But... necessity is the mother of invention, as the proverb goes, and sometimes, as in this case... necessity is the driving force for a hit. Going with “Beth” was a stroke of genius. It became the highest charting single for KISS- rising to #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1976.
Paul Stanley & Gene Simmons, the leaders of KISS, would find themselves in the same predicament 15 years later as the big-hair, hard-rock 80s were winding down and moving into the strangeness of 1990. I’ve mentioned this before but 1990 and part of 1991 was a weird time in the music industry… before Nirvana changed everything in later 91… music was in a strange place. It was kind of still the 80s, even though the calendar had moved into the 90s. But it wasn’t the good 80s… It was the overexposed pop that was invading everyone’s radio.. and it was hard to know what to make of it…
Now KISS had not benefited from a single in the Top 40 since “I Was Made for Lovin' You” in ’79, and they were once again, frantic for a hit. Fortunately, as in ’76, they happened to have a ballad.
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