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That band recorded one album, which was shelved by Epic Records, and played a handful of live shows.

Kiss traces its roots to Wicked Lester, a New York City-based rock band led by Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley.

1 Gold record award-winning group of all time, having earned 30 Gold albums. Kiss also holds the title as America's No. Kiss is regarded as one of the most influential rock bands of all time, as well as one of the best-selling bands of all time, having sold more than 75 million records worldwide, including 21 million RIAA-certified albums. In September 2018, Kiss announced that, after 45 years of recording and performing, it would be embarking on its ongoing final tour, the End of the Road World Tour, which started in January 2019 and is currently set to conclude in 2022. The band has continued with its original stage makeup, with Singer and Thayer using the original Catman and Spaceman makeup, respectively. Criss and Frehley subsequently left the band again, and have been replaced by Singer and Tommy Thayer. The resulting reunion tour was highly successful, grossing $143.7 million, making it the band's most successful tour to date. In response to a wave of Kiss nostalgia in the mid-1990s, the original lineup re-united in 1996, which also saw the return of its makeup and stage costumes. Eric Carr, who had replaced Criss in 1980, died in 1991 of heart cancer and was replaced by Eric Singer. The band experienced a commercial resurgence during this era, with the Platinum-certified album Lick It Up successfully introducing them to a new generation of fans, and its music videos receiving regular airplay on MTV. In 1983, Kiss began performing without makeup and costumes, thus marking the beginning of the band's "unmasked" era that would last for over a decade. Due to creative differences, Criss had departed the band in 1979 then Frehley had departed the group in 1982. With their make-up and costumes, the band members took on the personae of comic book-style characters: the Starchild (Stanley), the Demon (Simmons), the Spaceman or Space Ace (Frehley), and the Catman (Criss). The original and best-known lineup consists of Stanley (vocals and rhythm guitar), Simmons (vocals and bass), Frehley (lead guitar and vocals), and Criss (drums). The band has gone through several lineup changes, with Stanley and Simmons being the only members to feature in every lineup. Well known for its members' face paint and stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid–late 1970s with its shocking live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood-spitting, smoking guitars, shooting rockets, levitating drum kits, and pyrotechnics. Express, Kis-My-Ft, A.B.C, Johnny's Jr.Kiss (often stylized as KI ϟϟ) is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973 by Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley, and Peter Criss.