Kiss Archives - Desperate Living

The idea of resurrecting dead rock stars like Steve Marriott through AI is beyond the pale – let them rest in peace.

The return of Angel reminds us again of the biting Frank Zappa satire of the 1970s.

Promotional material from the glory days of the music magazines.

The end of the Seventies and the start of the Eighties is captured on the front of the publications of the time.

Gene Simmons might be an egotistical, greedy, sex-crazed narcissist – but at least he’s honest about it.

The fading cultural memory of Britain’s most famous heatwave.

The man responsible for the classic, larger-than-life look of 1970s rock has died.

The disco-rock miscreants return with an album of other people’s songs that offers nothing new to the original versions.

What was hot on The Reprobate in 2020? You can probably guess.

The eccentric creative geniuses keeping the mash-up alive and well.

A strange German television drama based around the 1980 Kiss tour.

Looking back at the rise and fall of the Playboy Playmate and KISS muse.