KISS has released thirty-seven records & sold 80 million albums worldwide. Gene Simmons has also acted in films & on television has written & produced albums for other recording artists has managed the recording career of among others Liza Minelli & was founder & president of his own recording label Simmons Records/RCA. He also launched his film & TV producing career with Detroit Rock City for New Line Cinema. Gene Simmons lives in Beverley Hills California & was recently the rock star teacher on Channel 4's Rock School. Here for the first time Gene Simmons the notorious mainman of the explosive rock & roll group KISS tells his story. Delivered in Gene's own honest outrageous & uncensored voice he tells of his early beginnings in Israel of his arrival in New York at the age of eight his first taste of 1950s pop culture & his developing thirst for fame fun & girls. Undoubtedly one of the most infamous rock & roll legends alive Gene tells the never before revealed story of KISS's reign as the biggest & most popular band in the world. Finally the real story of the man behind the make-up.