From packed arenas and tiny fan-club meetings to rare records, forgotten television appearances, magazine specials, backstage moments and memories that have survived for decades, this book tells the story of KISS in the Netherlands and Belgium like never before.
It is a story that stretches from the band’s first visits in the 1970s to the final shows of the End of the Road era, capturing the concerts, the chaos, the collectors, the promoters, the fan clubs and the people who kept KISS alive in the Benelux for generations. Along the way are long-lost photographs, original advertisements, tickets, posters, record-company material, memorabilia and stories from those who were actually there.
But this is more than a chronology of dates and venues. It is about what KISS meant to the fans. The excitement of finding a new magazine at the newsstand. The first imported record. The bus trips across borders. The queues outside venues. The friendships that began because four painted faces on a record sleeve somehow changed everything.
Created from years of research, collecting and personal experience, The History of KISS in the Netherlands and Belgium brings together more than five decades of music, memories and obsession in one definitive volume.
For those who were there, it will bring it all back.
For those who were not, this is your ticket in.