Anniversaries

They hoped to widen their sound and broaden their scope by scaling things back.

"I Got a Name" was released, as planned, a day later and became a Top 10 hit.

They seemed poised to build momentum, but things didn't go according to plan.

"I didn’t think he was going to do anything that good," bandmate Paul Stanley admitted.

Follow-up to blockbuster breakthrough 'Slippery When Wet' arrived in a surge of inspiration.

Kiss star admitted he "basked in the drama" on the 1978 LP.

American DJs regularly stumbled over the title of this Top 20 single.

Simmons left his demonic persona behind in favor of hosting an all-star, genre-hopping party.

Simultaneously released debuts "probably put the final nail in the coffin of the band," he later concluded.

Singer made a career of nodding off at inopportune moments, but this time it was onstage.