“The great albums were not made under a microscope. They were made by living, breathing people who were excited by what they were doing”: How Kiss fought back against the music industry with Sonic Boom

Kiss posing for a photograph in 2009.

Kiss’s 2009 album Sonic Boom was their first in 11 years – the result of a changing music industry and the rise of illegal downloading. But when Classic Rock sat down with Paul Stanley in Las Vegas, the Starchild was as defiant as ever about his band’s place in the grand scheme of things.

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