Music - Rock band Kiss allegedly plays last concert
The US rock band Kiss ("Detroit Rock City", "I Was Made For Loving You") will give their last concert on Sunday night. The masked cult band around the two founders Paul Stanley (71) and Gene Simmons (74) will perform in their hometown of New York City in the famous Madison Square Garden, finally ending their farewell tour after five years.
The "End Of The Road" tour had already begun in January 2019, was interrupted during the coronavirus pandemic and then extended several times.
"New York City has been a part of our spirit and history for more than four decades," Kiss wrote on their Instagram channel, "so we thought it fitting to cap off our career on stage at Madison Square Garden." The farewell concert will be broadcast as a paid livestream on the internet.
Debut in New York in 1973
Kiss made their debut in a New York club in January 1973 and within a few years had become one of the most successful rock bands in the world - also thanks to spectacular stage shows with lots of fireworks. The band had already completed a farewell tour once. But after the "Farewell Tour" in 2000, Stanley and Simmons changed their minds and continued playing with a different line-up.
In the dpa interview about the "End Of The Road" tour, which also took Kiss to Germany several times, both Simmons and Stanley cited the "50-pound" stage costumes as the main reason for their departure. "If we were on stage in sneakers and jeans, we could still play rock'n'roll at 90," said Stanley, making people sit up and take notice. From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, the group had already temporarily ditched their famous make-up and glittery costumes.
And Gene Simmons also leaves a small back door open. "I'm saying it here and now, my hand on the Bible," said the 74-year-old in a recent "Rolling Stone" interview. "It will be the last Kiss performance in make-up." Future Kiss concerts without masks and costumes are therefore not out of the question.
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