KISS was one of the biggest bands of the 1970s, known for their hard rock hits, iconic makeup, and larger-than-life stage theatrics.
But decades later, lead singer Paul Stanley revealed there was one song the band didn’t get quite right.
During a recent appearance on the Track Star podcast, Stanley, 74, admitted that KISS made a misstep when they recorded the song “Then She Kissed Me.” The song, a cover of the Crystals classic “Then He Kissed Me,” appeared on KISS’s Love Gun album in 1977.
“It's a great song, and somehow we managed to f--- it up, you know,” Stanley said on the podcast after making a face and holding his nose.
“Really, you know, there's certain things that can be redone, and given their own twist, so to speak," he noted. "And then there's us doing ‘Then She Kissed Me,’ which you know, it was misbegotten.”
Bandmate Gene Simmons added that the vintage song was an “interesting cultural reflection of the times” in the same way as the Beatles' “I Wanna Hold Your Hand.”
“I want to hold your hand. Or he walked up to me and asked me if I wanted to dance,” he said of the lyrics.
Simmons noted that there was an “etiquette” to older songs that was much different than, say, the Love Gun single “Christine Sixteen.”
For “Then She Kissed Me,” KISS swapped the Crystals' Top 10 doo-wop classic for a heavier hard rock sound featuring Stanley’s swaggering vocals. Stanley once shared that he was the one who pushed for a cover of the song because he loved the original.
In an interview posted by music journalist Carl Linnaeus, Stanley said of the cover song, “I'm sure it was my suggestion, and honestly, I don't necessarily think it was the best suggestion. I don't think we did the song justice, and I think it was, you know, not a great success as far as I'm concerned.”
The KISS legend added that at the time of their recording, the band had been “very focused on the parameters” of how far they could go outside of their genre.
“So I think it limited us,” he added.
“Then She Kissed Me" song remains an interesting part of KISS's history— even if Stanley feels they missed the mark. Nearly 50 years later, the Love Gun track is a reminder that the band wasn’t afraid to step outside of the box to pay tribute to a song that they loved.
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