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Listen Up!: Gene Simmons: behind the makeup

Thursday, November 15, 2001

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HOLLYWOOD - Just when we thought KISS took off their makeup and said goodbye to their fans on their farewell tour, KISS and Make-Up, the autobiography of KISS bassist Gene Simmons, will hit stores on Dec. 11. "It's the weirdest thing in the world," Simmons told Rolling Stone of the anthology process. "Because when you're moving ahead in life and you take snapshots of where you've been and then someone turns around and says, 'Take the last thirty years and pick six hours of highlights,' the hardest thing is how to figure out what to put in and not what to leave out."

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Punk rocker Ramone dies

Monday, April 16, 2001

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HOLLYWOOD, CA -- The Ramones, one of the bands from the original New York City punk scene in the mid-1970s, lost frontman Joey Ramone to lymphatic cancer on Sunday. He was 49. "Our beloved Joey Ramone passed away this afternoon at 2:40 p.m. (EDT) in a hospital in New York City where he was being treated for cancer," the official Ramones Web site said.

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