{"id":219953,"date":"2025-10-17T14:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/219953\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T14:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:25:12","slug":"ace-frehley-original-kiss-lead-guitarist-dead-at-74-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/219953\/","title":{"rendered":"Ace Frehley, original KISS lead guitarist, dead at 74 &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy Staff<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Associated Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted October 16, 2025 6:49 pm<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tUpdated October 16, 2025 6:51 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/Ace-Frehley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ace Frehley<\/a>, the original lead guitarist and founding member of the glam rock band <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/kiss\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KISS<\/a> who captivated audiences with his elaborate makeup and smoke-filled guitar, died Thursday. He was 74.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760146148_446_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Frehley died peacefully surrounded by family in Morristown following a recent fall, according to his agent.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760146149_837_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>Family members said in a statement that they are \u201ccompletely devastated and heartbroken\u201d but will cherish his laughter and celebrate the kindness he bestowed upon others.<\/p>\n<p>KISS, whose hits include \u201cRock and Roll All Nite\u201d and \u201cDetroit Rock City,\u201d was known for its intense stage shows, which included fireworks, smoke and eruptions of fake blood performed by band members in black-and-white painted faces, platform boots and black wigs.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11480557\/refugee-applicant-ice-crossed-canada-us-border-by-mistake\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760711112_33_Asylum-seeker-Canada.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tRefugee applicant held by ICE says he crossed Canada-U.S. border by mistake\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11480602\/virginia-giuffre-memoir-prince-andrew-jeffrey-epstein\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CP18679017.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tVirginia Giuffre, Epstein accuser, details abuse claims in posthumous memoir\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Frehley and his band mates were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Entertainment<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Staff The Associated Press Posted October 16, 2025 6:49 pm Updated October 16, 2025 6:51 pm 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[105944,49,48,75,9175],"class_list":{"0":"post-219953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ace-frehley","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-kiss"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}