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"I should be dead, but someone up there likes me." Billy Idol looks back on his wild adventures in '80s New York, including the night he met David Bowie while covered in his own vomit

"It was a post-apocalyptic place, like the bomb had been dropped and we were living in the rubble"

“If that album bombed we would have been dropped from the label!”: Kiss stars recall the album that saved the band

“If that album bombed we would have been dropped from the label!”: Kiss stars recall the album that saved the band

It's 50 years since the release of Kiss Alive!

“I said to those guys, ‘I would like us to do something where you become Marlon Brando — where you can still be bad boys but there has to be an element of vulnerability’”: How producer Bob Ezrin added a new dimension to Kiss

“I said to those guys, ‘I would like us to do something where you become Marlon Brando — where you can still be bad boys but there has to be an element of vulnerability’”: How producer Bob Ezrin added a new dimension to Kiss

"It was such a big departure for them," Ezrin says

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“All anyone wanted to hear was awful new wave garbage like Elvis Costello and The Police. Rock groups like ours were strangled us to death”: The rise and fall of Starz, the 70s rockers who should been the next Kiss

Starz were one of 70s rock’s greatest near misses

"A perfect storm of obstacles and misfortunes": New England released one of the greatest AOR albums of all time, but their career was derailed by the Pope

With some top-drawer tunes, Paul Stanley producing and Kiss’s management behind them, New England seemed, and felt, poised for stardom. Cue bad luck and trouble

“Look at the scene in Los Angeles. How on earth can you call any of those bands heavy metal?”: how Manowar delivered death to false metal with Hail To England

Manowar’s Hail To England is a mid-80s heavy metal classic

"If you think it’s just about putting make-up on your face and you can have a fifty-year career, boy, are you dreaming": Gene Simmons reflects on 50 years of Kiss

The Demon reflects on Kiss's 50-year journey from New York City punks to global superstars

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8 totally obscure AOR albums that should have been huge

8 totally obscure AOR albums that should have been huge

Not every hard rock band can be Journey or Bon Jovi – here are 8 lost AOR treasures that should have gone multi-platinum

Watch the moment Kiss’ Gene Simmons set his hair on fire during a 1973 show

Watch the moment Kiss’ Gene Simmons set his hair on fire during a 1973 show

Gene Simmons' hair “went up like a f**king matchstick" after his attempt to breathe fire for the very first time on stage with Kiss

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