genesimmons
KISS plan to stay "forever young" using avatars following their retirement from the road. The veteran rockers have hung up their platform boots after performing a final concert at Madison Square Garden in New York on Saturday night (02.12.23) but they surprised fans at the end of the gig by debuting digital versions of themselves created by the teams behind the lucrative 'Abba Voyage' hologram show. They have now declared the avatars signal the start of a "new era" in a video posted online after their final concert. The clip was titled: "KISS: A new era begins" and in the video, bassist Gene S...
BANG Showbiz English
KISS rockers Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley are being sued after their guitar tech died from COVID-19. The family of guitar tech Francis Stueber are taking legal action against the duo after he passed away a few days after contracting the virus while on tour with the band in October 2021. According to documents obtained by TMZ, Francis' loved ones claimed Paul was the first to contract COVID-19 and it then spread due to lax safety policies on the tour, with anyone who fell ill with the virus simply told to quarantine in a hotel room in whichever city the band was in, but few other instructions ...
BANG Showbiz English
Gene Simmons wouldn't leave his wife if she cheated on him. The 74-year-old KISS rocker has been married to model/actress Shannon Tweed since 2011 but they have been together since 1983 and share two children - Nick, 34, and Sophie, 31 - together and Gene has insisted he would never walk away from the relationship even if his partner was unfaithful after previously admitting he had cheated on his wife over the years. He told the Guardian newspaper: "Would I ever leave if Shannon dilly-dallied like I had? No. Absolutely not, that will never happen. This will be the only marriage I ever have bec...
BANG Showbiz English
Gene Simmons feels "grateful" to have toured the world for so many years. The KISS singer is preparing for the end of the band's last-ever tour, and Gene insists he feels like the "luckiest guy in the world". The 74-year-old star told 'Entertainment Tonight': "There's a great sense of pride. "The idea that anybody would give me a chance ... to be able to get a job that allows you to wear more make-up and higher heels than you ever wore and get paid well for it. It doesn't get better than that. "But when you've been doing it for 50 years, half a century, have a little dignity. Get off the stage...
BANG Showbiz English
Gene Simmons is bracing himself to cry “like a nine-year-old girl” when KISS finish their farewell tour. The rock veteran, 73, has been with the group since its 1973 formation, and spoke about how he won’t be able to hold back his grief it is wrapping up after the group announced the dates for their farewell tour in North America, which will end with a two-night stand at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on December 1-2. Gene told Howard Stern, 69, on Wednesday: “I kid around a lot, (saying), ‘Men don’t (cry.)’ “I’m sure I’ll cry like a nine-year-old girl whose foot’s being stepped on (whe...
BANG Showbiz English
Gene Simmons has expressed his pride after his daughter Sophie Simmons married her longtime partner James Henderson. The couple tied the knot officially at a courthouse in Los Angeles on Friday (17.02.23) before exchanging vows in front of around 50 family and friends in an intimate ceremony at a house in Malibu, California owned by the bride's mother Shannon Tweed-Simmons on Wednesday (22.02.23). KISS rocker Gene and Shannon said in a joint statement to PEOPLE: "We couldn't be prouder of our daughter. James is a solid young man, and Sophie can do anything she puts her mind to. We wish them a ...
BANG Showbiz English
Gene Simmons says entertainers shouldn’t “give a f***” if they are on Rolling Stone magazine’s ‘200 Greatest Singers Of All Time’ list. The KISS singer, 73, branded the new league table – updated from the publication’s 2008 version –“skewed” after he and Celine Dion were among the performers left out of the rankings. He told TMZ: “It’s skewed – but you have to consider who’s popular and who’s not, but if you really think about it, how good somebody sings may be part and parcel of what they do. “For instance, you have Jimi Hendrix – would he make it on ‘American Idol’? “What about Bob Dylan? Wo...
BANG Showbiz English
Paul Stanley says KISS could continue into their 90s if they swapped their stage costumes for jeans and trainers. The glam rockers recently announced their upcoming 'End of the Road World Tour' will be their last as they have decided to retire from the road for good, but 70-year-old frontman Paul has conceded they could have gone on for much longer if they ditched their platform boots and cumbersome outfits. He told New York Post column PageSix: "At this point, it really comes down to what’s possible at certain ages. If we were wearing sneakers and T-shirts and jeans, we could do this into our...
BANG Showbiz English
Gene Simmons doesn't fear death. The KISS rocker, 73, has insisted that unless a car drives into him, he's not scared of dying, and he will go out knowing what an "amazing life" he's been blessed with. Speaking to Goldmine magazine, he said: "I'd be a complete arsehole, certainly more than I am now, if I wasn't grateful for this amazing life. "I mean, if it ended today, I know that my tombstone would say, 'Thank you and good night.' What more could you hope for? "So I'm not afraid of death unless a car is coming straight into your face. You kind of go, 'Oh my God!' But that's just instinct." T...
BANG Showbiz English
KISS’ Gene Simmons says the band are retiring so they don’t disgrace themselves by falling over on stage in their over-the-top costumes. The straight-talking singer, 72, added it was time for the group to hang up their make-up kits as there is nothing worse for fans than watching their idols grow too old to perform to the fullest on stage. It comes after the long-running band – also made up of Paul Stanley, 70, Eric Singer, 64, and Tommy Thayer, 61 – said in 2018 that they would stage a massive farewell tour, before hanging up their stage personas. Simmons told Full Metal Jackie on an episode ...
BANG Showbiz English
閲覧を続けるには、ノアドット株式会社が「プライバシーポリシー」に定める「アクセスデータ」を取得することを含む「nor.利用規約」に同意する必要があります。
「これは何?」という方はこちら