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Chicago Sun-Times
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The last KISS goodbye: ‘Yes, this is it,’ Gene Simmons swears as farewell tour winds down

Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley perform during a 2019 United Center stop on KISS’ End of the Road World Tour. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times,)

Gene Simmons remembers the first time KISS played Madison Square Garden.

It was 1977 and he arrived at 33rd Street in a cab, fully aware of the significance of finally playing the world’s most storied musical temple a mere 10 blocks from where KISS originated four years earlier.

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