On April 10, 2014, the four original members of Kiss were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Kiss has 14 Platinum albums, three of which earned multi-Platinum. Kiss has also earned 30 Gold albums, the most of any band from the United States. Kiss is regarded as one of the most influential rock bands of all time, as well as one of the best-selling bands of all time, claiming to have sold more than 100 million records worldwide, including 21 million RIAA-certified albums.
In September 2018, Kiss announced that, after 45 years of recording and performing, it would embark on its final tour, the End of the Road World Tour, which started in January 2019 and is currently set to conclude in 2023.
The band has continued with its original stage make-up, with Singer and Thayer using the original Catman and Spaceman make-up, respectively. Criss and Frehley subsequently left the band again, and have been replaced by Singer and Tommy Thayer, respectively. The resulting reunion tour was highly successful, grossing $143.7 million, making it the band's most successful tour to date. In response to a wave of Kiss nostalgia in the mid-1990s, the original line-up reunited in 1996, which also saw the return of its make-up and stage costumes. Eric Carr, who had replaced Criss in 1980, died in 1991 of heart cancer and was replaced by Eric Singer. The band experienced a commercial resurgence during this era, with the Platinum-certified album Lick It Up successfully introducing them to a new generation of fans, and its music videos receiving regular airplay on MTV. In 1983, Kiss began performing without make-up and costumes, marking the beginning of the band's "unmasked" era that would last for over a decade. Due to creative differences, Criss departed the band in 1980 and Frehley in 1982, though both would return later. With their make-up and costumes, the band members took on the personae of comic book-style characters: the Starchild (Stanley), the Demon (Simmons), the Spaceman or Space Ace (Frehley), and the Catman (Criss).
The original and best-known line-up consisted of Stanley (vocals and rhythm guitar), Simmons (vocals and bass), Frehley (lead guitar and vocals), and Criss (drums and vocals). The band has gone through several line-up changes, with Stanley and Simmons the only consistent members. Known for its members' face paint and stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid-1970s with shocking live performances, which featured fire-breathing, blood-spitting, smoking guitars, shooting rockets, levitating drum kits, and pyrotechnics. Kiss (stylized as KI ϟϟ) is an American rock band formed in New York City in 1973 by Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley, and Peter Criss.
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