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...Johan Lagerlöf, head of investment at Pophouse, said the company’s mission was “to fulfil the band’s vision to become immortal”, adding: “Kiss is one of the most recognised and iconic bands in the history...
...New deals have continued to be struck by artists selling their music rights to investment groups, with US rock band Kiss most recently agreeing to a $300mn deal that included its name, image and likenesses...
...It recalls the previous two records from the west African supergroup which were produced by Liam Farrell, aka Doctor L, best known for his work with Kinshasa noise band Mbongwana Star....
...At the outset he’s a cool thirtysomething: a new parent who still jams in a band with his journalist friends....
...The band fired him in 1991 during a world tour because of his excesses....
...The opening by Cuban dancemaker Raúl Reinoso offers plenty of free-spinning ensembles and a never-ending kiss duet for Javier Rojas and Yaoqian Shang....
...Kiss sells rights for $300mn to company behind Abba hologram show (FT)...
...Punchy tunes showcase the range that has also made them celebrated live performers, both as headliners and as support acts (they recently did a stint on Kiss’s UK tour)....
...The kiss that Albarn planted on Coxon’s lips at the end of a song, followed by a Carry On film “oo-er” look at the audience, spoke of rapprochement....
...conclude their latest tour at Madison Square Garden with their last ever show, 50 years after the American rock band formed Sunday Advent Sunday, the fourth before Christmas Day...
...I love all his work – The Kiss, Death and Life. I have been able to admire some on my friends’ walls and would be so blessed to have the same privilege....
...Guilfoyle blows him a kiss....
...“It was an intentional kiss of death,” says one RN lawmaker....
...At one point she pretended she was about to play a “ditty” written that day while “walkin’ around London town”, before launching into the spikily anthemic older favourite “Shut Up Kiss Me” (from her 2016...
...“It didn’t look anything like ‘The Kiss’,” wailed the instigator. Now why, I wonder, could that be?...
...Wongraven recalls first seeing Munch’s “Scream” during childhood visits to Oslo’s National Museum; years later, his band used the 1899 Munch lithograph “The Kiss of Death” as the haunting cover art for their...
...The London band’s debut single “Kiss with a Fist” was a rambunctious number in which Florence Welch sings about a couple having a physical fight....
...In 2017, several ex-Nameless Ghouls sued the band’s leader in a royalties dispute....
...Parker is a conceptual artist, and she can be playful in a consciously Duchampian way — for “The Distance (A Kiss with String Attached)” she wraps Rodin’s “The Kiss” in a mile of string, inflecting romantic...
...“Our band Dumb Blondes heard Kiss were doing all this theatrical stuff — blowing things up — so we went to this theatrical store and bought all this gunpowder,” said Phil Collen, later of Def Leppard....
...The children playing kiss-chase, the lovers at “dewfall, starfall” in the wood, dramatise Thomas’s life-long theme: “Time held me green and dying/Though I sang in my chains like the sea.”...
...Shoppers dance to the reggae band playing at the bar upstairs, and the place is packed with diners at various mini restaurants....
...They linger in the back, watching as the band assembles. It’s a bluegrass group, something different from The Beatles cover bands that crowd the college town’s other bars....
...But I suspect many of us are re-entering the world with a lot more Band-Aids pasted on our hearts than we care to acknowledge....
...This is a handle from a Community Band radio — it was pretty fascinating, almost an early form of internet.”...
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