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For a group that performed in garish makeup and costumes amid explosions and fire-breathing, it’s perhaps not surprising that Kiss did not often get much respect as musicians. Yet the band’s ...

Ace Frehley was the spaceman guitar hero at the heart of Kiss. Just a kid from the Bronx, he transformed into an extraterrestrial rock monster with his silver makeup and glittery astronaut boots. As ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Ace Frehley, best known as the original lead guitarist and ...

The stage volume of Ace Frehley’s Marshall amps was “louder than God,” recalls Philip Shouse, with equal parts fondness and wonder. And when Frehley’s guitar playing was really in the zone? Shouse ...

On Oct. 16, 2025, rock guitar legend Ace Frehley passed away at age 74. I unexpectedly became teary-eyed, for I was shocked. One of the founders of the band Kiss, and a widely respected solo artist, ...