Peter Criss is clapping back against former KISS bandmate Gene Simmons' claims that he never wrote the band's 1976 hit, "Beth."
Appearing on a recent installment of the YouTube series Professor of Rock, the 76-year-old Simmons ruffled a few feathers by claiming that Criss – who holds the songwriting credit for "Beth" alongside Stan Penridge and Bob Ezrin – "had nothing to do with" the song's creation.
“Peter had nothing to do with that song," Simmons said in the interview. "He sang it…The mythology of ‘Beth’ is exactly that: mythology. The real story is Peter was lucky enough to be in the same place at the same time as a guy who wrote a song called ‘Beth.'”
Asked for a response to Simmons' claims by Billboard, the 80-year-old Criss called his bandmate's comments "ridiculous," detailing the story behind "Beth"'s initial writing.
“Gene wouldn’t know how the song was originally written because Gene wasn’t there from the conception of the song in the late ‘60s and he wasn’t there for the completion of the song with Bob Ezrin," Criss said. "Gene’s statements are ridiculous and very uncalled for; he talks about things that he doesn’t know about."
What Gene’s getting wrong is that as the singing songwriter, I wrote the melody and creating the phrasing for the song that’s on the original demo ‘Beck’ with Stan Penridge [his late bandmate from the pre-KISS Chelsea]," the Catman continued.
"Out of Stan’s little black book what remained on the reworked version of ‘Beth’ is Stan’s original verse and chorus, and my core melody remains on the reworked composition," Criss went on to say. "The core melody was expanded with Bob’s orchestration symphony and musical genius. Bob and I sat at the piano at the Record Plant studio working out the song. Bob Ezrin changed the tempo and made it slower, and I worked on changing some of the second verse and the phrasing with the slower tempo.”
“No one knew ‘Beth’ was going to be a big hit," the legendary drummer finished by saying. "My name was credited to that song before it was a hit. I would not put my name on a song I had nothing to do with. That is not who I am. I would not do that.”
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