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Our comeback KISStravaganza kicks off with the first in a four-part series on Gene Simmons‘ 2001 memoir, KISS and Make-Up. KISS‘ founding “Demon” tends to be perceived as one of the villains of rock and roll: a reputation he’s earned by, let’s face it, pretty much everything he says and does. But after basically inhabiting his brain for the past month, we were surprised to find ourselves feeling a twinge of affection for him — or at least, a sense of empathy for the mountains of unexamined trauma that made him That Way. So join us as we delve into the formative years that transformed a precocious immigrant boy into the glowering golem we know and (mostly) tolerate today.
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