KISS: Behind the Mask - Official Authorized Biogrphy
Selected Book Details
- Paperback
- Author: David Leaf, Ken Sharp
- Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
- Release Date: June 2005
- ISBN-10: 0446695246
- ISBN-13: 9780446695244
- List Price: $15.95
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryWith unprecedented access to all four members of KISS-including their private archive of 30 years of photographs-here is the complete story of one of the most influential hard rock bands of all time. Dressed like leather-clad rock 'n' roll warriors from another planet and adorned in colorful greasepaint, KISS has sold more than 80 million albums and transfixed audiences around the world. In this shockingly revealing and comprehensive biography, the group unveils all the previously untold details of their struggling birth in New York City, to the breakthrough success of their seminal 1975 album, Alive!, to the triumphant reunion that propelled them right back to the highest ranks of music superstardom. |
Customer Reviews
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Kiss "Behind the Mask" - "The Official Authorized Biography" = The Best Kiss Book Ever!!!!!!!
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This is an excellent biography book of KISS, an American Iconic Rock Band. It is very well illustrated, very comprehensive, very complete, and very well presented. It contains over 400 pages, including 17 chapters. Chapter 17 contains an "Album by Album - Song by Song" discosgopy, thru about 2003, that's when the book is copyrighted. It contains many, many quotes & commentaries by the band members of KISS, and by other Rock musicians. There are many, many quotes and commentaries by other Rock stars. Some inlcude: Peter Framton, Hall & Oates, Ian Gillan of Deep Purple, Nancy Wilson of Heart, Rick Nelson of Cheap Trick, Don Brewer of Grand Funk Railroad, Julian Lennon, Ray Davies of the Kinks, Ray Manzarek of the Doors, The Ramones (from Queens New York, also),Ted Nugent and on on on. All these qoutes and commentaries are very enjoyable to read. This book is packed with information about KISS, and is the utimate reference guide for a KISS fan, or a Rock fan in general. KISS was/is a lengenary GREAT AMERICAN BAND!!!!
Overall, this is a great book about the great American (New York) Band KISS. If you like KISS or just plain ole Rock, then I highly recommend this book. It would be a great addition to any Rock Library. Thanks!!!!
Very interesting and well written
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This is the first KISS book I've read; I've been a casual fan until recently, when I decided I wanted to know more details about the band's history and its music. This book is different from many "band biographies" in that the entire first section was transcribed from interviews done by David Leaf in 1979 -- although he transcribed the interviews in 1979, they were never published until this book was released -- and the second half is comprised mainly of interviews done by Ken Sharp (well after 1979); this part includes extensive song-by-song, album-by-album commentary by the band, managers, producers, session musicians, songwriters, etc. involved in creating each album and song. It gives an interesting perspective into what went into making each song and each album, and was actually very helpful in directing my attention to certain tracks which I might be interested in downloading but which were not the most commercially successful songs by KISS. As a direct result of reading this book, I ended up buying multiple MP3 downloads which I'd never heard before but which I really enjoy (of course, the 30 second previews are crucial!).
THIS BOOK BLEW ME AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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If you're a hardcore KISS FAN you've got to have this book.
This is a complete view of KISSTORY
the kiss museum news...
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many of the transcripts used to write this book were stolen from the editors of "the kiss museum news" a fan based publication out of detroit michigan, gene and paul and fbi agents stole this material from edward przydzial and his photos too. many of which have appeared in kisstory as well as metal edge and are also being sold via kissonline and pictopia photo services...
A great gift for any KISS fan
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I bought this book for a friend who is a huge KISS fan. He doesn't like to read much but he devoured this book.
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