Kiss: Is This Man A Prat?
Chris Salewicz, NME, 26 August 1978
TWENTY-EIGHT year-old Gene Simmons of New York City, New York, is sitting in his hotel-room near Marble Arch. It's four o'clock on a humid Friday afternoon and Gene is miffed.
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