The New York–based rock and roll group KISS formed in 1972, when two workaholic Jews (guitarist Stanley Eisen and bassist Chaim Wits) aligned forces with two irresponsible boozehounds (drummer Peter George John Criscuola95 and guitarist Paul Frehley). Their adopted stage names are household, unless you are very young, crazy old, or not interested in loud music: Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Peter Criss, and Ace Frehley (the latter adopting “Ace” because “the band didn’t need another Paul”). The group was spawned upon the dissolution of Simmons and Stanley’s previous band Wicked Lester, a
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