![]() (Watch an exclusive clip of “Spinning Gold” below.) Also featured are comedians Sebastian Maniscalco, playing Moroder, Jay Pharoah and Chris Redd. Playing Neil Bogart is Broadway star Jeremy Jordan and taking on the acts on the roster are current-day music artists like Ledisi (Gladys Knight), Tayla Parx (Donna Summer), Jason Derulo (Ron Isley) and Wiz Khalifa (George Clinton). “ Spinning Gold” was first conceived in 1990 and, after many drafts, multiple castings and a decades-long search for the right director (the road ultimately led to Tim), is finally a finished feature film making its screen debut at the Cannes Film Festival. Tim Bogart, one of Neil’s sons alongside hit songwriter Evan Bogart (Rihanna’s “SOS,” Beyonce’s “Halo”), has given a lot of thought to the brief amount of time his dad was on this earth (the elder Bogart died in 1982 of cancer, by which time disco had gone out of fashion), and has worked diligently to preserve the story in the form of a screenplay. “Detroit Rock City”, “King of the Night Time World”, “God of Thunder”, “Great Expectations”, “Shout It Out Loud”, “Beth”, “Shout It Out Loud”.Tayla Parx as Donna Summer Courtesy of Boardwalk Entertainment Group “Detroit Rock City” Released: July 28, 1976 “Shout It Out Loud” Released: March 1, 1976 Recorded during: 3–6 September 1975 at Electric Lady Studios and January–February 1976 at Record Plant Studios, New York City New York Philharmonic: orchestra on “Beth”īob Ezrin: orchestration, keyboards, piano on “Beth”īrooklyn Boys Chorus: : additional vocals on “Great Expectations”ĭavid and Josh Ezrin: voices on “God of Thunder” Peter Criss: drums, percussion, vocals, lead vocals on “Beth”ĭick Wagner: guitar solo on “Sweet Pain” and “Flaming Youth”, acoustic guitar on “Beth” and “Great Expectations” “Destroyer” it’s an essential album in any record collection, a golden milestone on KISS’s career, that can still earn them new fans to this day, and even if it doesn’t, at least gives the album itself new fans.ġ “Detroit Rock City” Paul Stanley, Bob EzrinĢ “King of the Night Time World” Stanley, Kim Fowley, Mark Anthony, EzrinĤ “Great Expectations” Gene Simmons, Ezrinĥ “Flaming Youth” Ace Frehley, Stanley, Simmons, Ezrinħ “Shout It Out Loud” Stanley, Simmons, EzrinĨ “Beth” Peter Criss, Stan Penridge, Ezrinĩ “Do You Love Me” Stanley, Fowley, Ezrinġ0 “Rock and Roll Party” Simmons, Stanley, Ezrin He said of the performance, “It blew me away.” Kelly was later commissioned by the band to draw the cover for 1977’s “Love Gun”, the art for those two albums remains among the most iconic of the band. Kelly was invited to a show and given a backstage pass. The cover art for Destroyer was painted by fantasy artist Ken Kelly. 60 on Guitar World magazine’s list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Albums of All Time. 489 on Rolling Stone magazine’s (that didn’t gave a favorable critic when it was originally released) list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. 36 among the “100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time”. In 1989, Kerrang! magazine listed the album at No. Paul Stanley later compared the experience of working with Ezrin as “musical boot camp” but said that the group “came out a lot smarter for it.” But despite being now considered an absolute and essential Rock classic, “Destroyer” wasn’t well welcomed by critics at the time, only in later years the album has received recognition. 13 (known as Sonata Pathétique), but songwriting is credited to Simmons and Ezrin. The song “Great Expectations” uses the first phrase of the main theme from the second movement of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. ![]() Ezrin, introduced to Kiss were sound effects, strings, screaming children, reversed drums (on “God of Thunder”) and a children’s choir. ![]() The production, that was given to Bob Ezrin, who had previously worked with Alice Cooper, made the songs in the album even stronger. Released at the peak of their popularity, in 1976, “Destroyer” has Heavy Metal, Hard Rock, Pop and even Symphonic Rock all blend together.An instant classic, it features enduring KISS songs and Rock hits “Detroit Rock City”, “God Of Thunder”, “Do You Love Me”, “Shout It Out Loud” and “Beth”. This is a record that consists in a collection of some of the band’s best songs in which the lead vocals are perfectly distributed between Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, with the exception of Peter Criss’s “Beth”, one of the highlights of his career. “Destroyer” it’s the KISS album that even non-fans can like. ![]()
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