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“I always tried to push him to be better, and he’s always been my incentive for trying to be better – better than him, sometimes”: Paul Stanley on the synergy and the rivalry that drove Kiss

Kiss in 1975.

“At the end of the day, if it was a relay race, the two of us won it.” That’s how Paul Stanley summed up his long relationship with his co-star in Kiss, Gene Simmons.

It was in 1970 that the two musicians first joined forces in a New York-based group named Rainbow, which was subsequently renamed Wicked Lester. And although this venture failed – the band was dropped after recording an album for Epic Records – Stanley knew even then that his future lay with Simmons.

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