Kiss is an American rock band, formed in 1973 in New York. With over 80 million albums sold worldwide, the group is one of the most successful rock bands.

In addition to bands like The Sweet, Slade or T. Rex was Kiss for their costumes and masks often associated with the concept of Glam Rock. The music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote ones: "The music of Kiss is a commercially-functioning mixture of anthemic, guitar-embossed hard rock, and ballads, in which the guitars flow. That's the sound that allowed the 'arena rock'and 'Pop-Metal', which ruled in the 1980s, rock music. "

Kiss dressed in the days of glam rock very much darker - mainly in leather - and played even harder and louder. The horror show was in contrast to the rather sweet image of glam rock. Kiss regarded as pioneers in inventing ever-new merchandise, or as the band that invented the merchandising in a big way and revolutionized. Just alone in 1980 they were implemented to over 100 million U.S. dollars. In 1997, the toy manufacturer McFarlane Toys, brought out a first series of realistic miniature figures of the Kiss-musicians. This proved to be a big seller among collectors, so that four other Kiss series followed, and also other rock stars were portrayed.

With their sound from the 70s Kiss influenced generations of musicians. Lenny Kravitz, members of Metallica, Nirvana, Lordi, Pearl Jam and Green Day name Kiss as their idols and the reason why they started making music.

Kiss are commercially very successful, and are the band that are after the Beatles and the Rolling Stones had the most gold records. Just in the U.S. alone, the band had 24 gold records, ten platinum records and two multi-platinum -awards. Overall, the band has sold over 80 million albums.

By Melanie Bradley

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