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2 Apr, 1975

Rock & Roll All Nite

Paul StanleySingle Release0 Comments

The band releases their single, Rock & Roll All Nite, from their album, Dressed To Kill. Stanley:

Originally Gene and I would tend to help each other fill in the gaps. Rock and Roll All Night came about because we felt we needed an anthem, a song that could be the rallying cry for all of our fans. So I went back to the hotel and came up with the chorus and the melody. Then I went down to see Gene and he came up with the verses. We used to write a lot like that. As Gene and I became better writers we became either less willing to bend on our individual ideas, or it may have been that we both figured our songs would be stronger if developed by the person who wrote them.

Kiss - Rock And Roll All Nite (From Kiss eXposed)

20 May, 1979

I Was Made For Lovin’ You

Desmond ChildSingle Release0 Comments

The band releases I Was Made For Lovin’ You , from Dynasty. Child:

In 1979 I co-wrote I Was Made for Loving You with Paul Stanley of Kiss. This is a band that didn’t do that much outside writing. But Paul and Gene wrote songs together, then on their own they wrote songs, and then they put those songs together, and that would be Kiss. So Paul asked me to co-write a song with him, and that song turned out to be a ginormous hit, and to this day still earns a lot of income performance wise and also within the compilations of Kiss’ greatest hits. And it’s used often and in commercials and movies and things like that.

Kiss - I Was Made For Lovin' You (Live From Inner Sanctum)