Gene Simmons

In discussing the secrets of rock and roll glory, many past rockers often made reference to that fire inside which drove them to succeed. Gene Simmons, the outspoken, legendarily long-tongued musician/entrepreneur of face-painted rockers KISS, however, was perhaps the first member of rock and roll history to have taken this metaphorical idea literally. Over a decades-long career of alternating musical and screen projects, “The Demon” forged a layered identity built upon the contradictions of navigating an uneasy marriage of art and commerce and a public image of carnality set against private