{"id":177045,"date":"2025-09-29T06:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T06:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/177045\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T06:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T06:14:10","slug":"the-kiss-song-paul-stanley-never-got-tired-of-playing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/177045\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kiss song Paul Stanley never got tired of playing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Paul<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ Apple Music)<\/p>\n

Sun 28 September 2025 21:45, UK <\/p>\n

Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons<\/a> met in the New York music scene. Upon hearing Paul Stanley play, Gene Simmons knew that they had to start making music together.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Both of them were playing in different bands at the time. Stanley was working on music with Steve Cornell, meanwhile, Gene Simmons was in a band called Bullfrog Bheer. Stanley was rehearsing with Cornell at his house, which is where he met the man that would become his Kiss counterpart. The moment he and Stanley started playing music together, Simmons knew that the two of them would have a great partnership. However, it took a while for the two of them to agree to work together. <\/p>\n

\u201cI thought we should be in a band together,\u201d said Simmons, \u201cBut Paul didn\u2019t like me<\/a> at all.\u201d Stanley confirmed he wasn\u2019t too keen on Simmons at the start. It wasn\u2019t anything personal, he just thought that he might prove a bit too difficult to work with. \u201cI think he thought Lennon, McCartney and Gene were the only songwriters in the world,\u201d he said, \u201cAnd all of a sudden he had to make room for a fourth.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The two did start working together eventually, and the two of them went on to have a songwriting partnership which has produced some truly timeless music. A lot of people thought that when Kiss started painting their faces, they did it because they wanted to make themselves easier to sell; however, they said it was because they had more creative freedom within their strict brand. When asked about the paint, Simmons compared their approach to music comparable to the Beatles. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe also took pride in having the same freedom The Beatles had,\u201d said Simmons, \u201cTheir philosophy was, \u2018No matter what kind of music we do, it\u2019s still The Beatles\u2019. That\u2019s what was amazing about them\u2026 The Beatles were not trapped in that way. They could do music hall, psychedelia \u2013 anything<\/a> \u2013 and they did. Yet somehow it always sounded like The Beatles.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two of them managed to write plenty of great songs with this newfound freedom that came with facepaint, but there is one that Paul Stanley loved playing the most. \u2018C\u2019mon and Love Me\u2019 was born out of necessity, as the band had been told their record Hotter Than Hell had stopped selling. Upon hearing the news, they began working on their next album, Dressed to Kill, right away. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a real interesting concept \u2013 especially since we hadn\u2019t written any new songs yet,\u201d recalled Stanley, \u201cSo we packed our bags and went home, and every morning Gene and I would write. When Peter [Criss] and Ace would show up, we\u2019d say, \u2018Okay, guys, here\u2019s today\u2019s song\u2019. It wasn\u2019t unusual for us to write a song in an hour and a half.\u201d <\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cThe verses to \u2018C\u2019mon and Love Me\u2019 were probably written in half an hour, and yet it\u2019s one of my favourite songs to this day \u2013 in fact, we may bring it out on the next tour. It sounds every bit as good today as it did back then.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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