Kiss

Kiss (more often styled as KISS) is an American hard rock band formed in New York City in January 1973. Well known for its members' black and white face paint and flamboyant stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid to late 1970s with their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting, smoking guitars, shooting rockets, levitating drum kits and pyrotechnics. By the early 80's Kiss dropped their face paint and stage outfits and went more into a glam metal image, with their music moving into that orientation. By the mid 90's, the band decided to reunite with their original members and perform live concerts of their 70's material. Since then the band still continues to tour and recently released albums that sound more of their 70's era.

Links To Peel
Peel wasn't really a big Kiss fan, but one song he particularly loved was called Black Diamond, which came from their debut album, that was released in 1974. On his show from 29 November 2001, before Peel played Black Diamond he mentioned:


 * "I got hold of the debut LP by hmm you guess KISS and obviously you may think a little ootray KISS by an large, but for me one amazing track on their debut LP and it's a track you may never have heard".

After he played the song he said:


 * "I was enjoying that so much, I forgot to cue up another record"

Other Shows Played
(The following list was compiled only from the database of this site and Lorcan's Tracklistings Archive and is certainly incomplete. Please add further details if known.)

1992 2001
 * 01 February 1992: Black Diamond (LP - Kiss) Casablanca (Peel played the guitar solo of this song as a competition for listeners to guess the artist and win prizes)
 * 29 November 2001: Black Diamond (LP - Kiss) Casablanca (Peel played the track, as the previous record song title was called Kiss by the artist Cherubino)