{"id":83341,"date":"2025-10-17T01:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/83341\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T01:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:19:09","slug":"kiss-guitarist-ace-frehley-dies-aged-74-after-ongoing-medical-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/83341\/","title":{"rendered":"KISS guitarist Ace Frehley dies aged 74 after \u2018ongoing medical issues\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frehley left the band in 1982 before rejoining for a reunion tour in 1996. <\/p>\n

He then stayed with KISS until 2002. <\/p>\n

During his absence from the rock outfit, he formed his own band, Frehley\u2019s Comet and released solo music. <\/p>\n

Last month, Frehley had to cancel shows after a fall in his studio. <\/p>\n

A September 25 post on the guitarist\u2019s official Instagram account said that he had a fall which resulted in a trip to hospital. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe is fine, but against his wishes, his doctor insists that he refrain from travel at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a result of the incident, a performance had to be cancelled, it said. <\/p>\n

Last week an update on the same account said: \u201cDue to some ongoing medical issues, Ace has made the difficult decision to cancel the remainder of his 2025 dates\u201d.<\/p>\n

Sources have told TMZ that Frehley, 74, suffered a brain bleed when he fell in his studio, which forced him to cancel the remaining shows of his tour. <\/p>\n

TMZ reported that the star has been on a ventilator \u201cfor some time,\u201d but his health has not improved. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frehley left the band in 1982 before rejoining for a reunion tour in 1996. He then stayed with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[20700,63824,74,18919,6179,7126,156,63826,63825,28710,1452,19727,7240,3523,1329,111,139,69,6379],"class_list":["post-83341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-20700","tag-ace","tag-after","tag-aged","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-entertainment","tag-founding","tag-frehley","tag-guitarist","tag-issues","tag-kiss","tag-lead","tag-medical","tag-member","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-ongoing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}