Makeup to Breakup (44 page)

The Barracudas

The Sounds of Soul

Nautilus

Chelsea

Jerry Nolan, Gene Krupa, and me. It doesn’t get better than this.

My family with Lydia and me at our wedding, 1970.

Sgt. Pepper’s era.

Our Canarsie apartment. I painted the mural on the wall.

Check out my Beatles boots, mid-1960s.

My first KISS costume. My mom helped me make it in 1972.

Grandpa George and Stepgrandma Pauline, ready for a KISS show in San Francisco, 1979.

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Big John and me in our early desperado days.

My personal bodyguard, Rosie Licata, who has the heart of a child.

Debra and me on our wedding day, 1979.