2011 – KISS army Gasp!… KISS rocker Gene Simmons tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend, Shannon Tweed on This Day in Rock! Saturday evening in Beverly Hills, Us Weekly can confirm.
2010 – Gene Simmons wants Simon Cowell’s job – he’s convinced he would make a better judge on the TV mogul’s reality singing contests because he has real experience in the music industry.
The Kiss rocker has joined a string of stars, including Sir Elton John and The Who’s Roger Daltrey, who have taken aim at Cowell and his hit TV competitions.
Simmons insists he is “more qualified than anybody” to dole out advice on the program, which he claims will never discover any new music legends like Jimi Hendrix or Robert Plant.
He tells Britain’s Daily Star, “I think I could be the sole judge on The X Factor, I’m more qualified than anybody on the show. Nobody on the show has written songs, then been on stage, or had record companies and managed Liza Minnelli. Nobody can shine my shoes.
“Maybe Simon should talk to me, although he is the only one on television that tells the truth. Everybody is nice, but that’s not how life is. Life is: ‘You suck, get off the stage.’ Realistic is good.
“Part of the reason we like watching these shows is because there are people up there and you’re like, ‘Are you on crack? Do you actually believe that you belong on stage?’ The biggest superstars of all time would have never made it on The X Factor.
“Imagine if Jimi Hendrix or Mick Jagger or Robert Plant came out. I wouldn’t make it, and neither would they. We’re peculiar and that’s what makes stars interesting, not the fact that you can sing well. Broadway and pop is the place where people really sing correctly.”
According to CNET News, the FBI has launched an investigation into an online protest that allegedly took down numerous websites belonging to antipiracy and entertainment groups, as well as the US Copyright Office, a source with knowledge of the probe told CNET today.
Over the past two months, a group calling itself Anonymous, with links to the 4chan Web forum and image board, has launched distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) against websites operated by the Motion Picture Association of America, The Recording Industry Association (RIAA), Hustler magazine, KISS’ Gene Simmons, The British Phonographic Industry, and other similar groups in France, Australia, Spain and elsewhere.
When Gene Simmons spoke out recently against illegal file sharing, his site, Genesimmons.com suffered outages as a result of a DDoS attack.
2005 – a woman was suing Gene Simmons from Kiss for slander, alleging a documentary made her out to be a “sex-addicted nymphomaniac”. Georgeann Walsh Ward, 53, of New York, said during a VH1 documentary her photo was flashed up as Simmons talked about his past sexual encounters. Ms Walsh Ward had dated Simmons for three years when he was a student. In the documentary, Simmons boasted of having sex with over 4,600 women.
2003 – And what did Gene Simmons of KISS do the day war broke out? According to his Web site, “”Spent most of yesterday reading the forthcoming Sex Money KISS I wrote for SIMMONS AUDIO/New Millennium. It will be released on the same date as the book version (Simmons Books/New Millennium)…Yes, I like to see my name up in lights. Don’t you?”
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