KISS

Kiss is an American rock band formed in New York City in 1973 by Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley, and Peter Criss. Known for its members' face paint and stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid-1970s with shocking live performances, which featured fire-breathing, blood-spitting, smoking guitars, shooting rockets, levitating drum kits, and pyrotechnics. The band has gone through several line-up changes, with Stanley and Simmons the only consistent members. The original and best-known line-up consisted of Stanley, Simmons, Frehley, and Criss. With their make-up and costumes, the band members took on the personae of comic book-style characters: the Starchild, the Demon, the Spaceman or Space Ace, and the Catman. Due to creative differences, Criss departed the band in 1980 and Frehley in 1982, though both would return later. In 1983, Kiss began performing without make-up and costumes, marking the beginning of the band's "unmasked" era that would last for over a decade. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_(band)) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)