In a long-overdue bit of acknowledgement, Desmond Child—the man behind many of the finest in '80s power ballads, as well as disco Kiss and Ricky Martin—will enter the Songwriters' Hall Of Fame on Thursday, along with relatively minor songwriting figures as John Sebastian, Loretta Lynn, and Albert Hammond. Child tells the
Miami Herald, "It was funny because I had been nominated twice before but I hadn't made it, and I spoke to the heads of it and they said, 'Well, we always thought you were too young to get it, but then we recently looked at your bio and realized you are old. You just looked young.'' As most of his big-name collaborators are out touring this summer, Desmond Child has been forced "by default" to reunite his late '70s combo Rouge for the ceremony. While it would be insane to try and list all of his greatest achievements ("Kiss The Rain"? "Born To Be My Baby"? "Shake Your Bon Bon"?), we've compiled a list of every
ASCAP-registered song of his that features the word "love" in the title. Can you guess how many there are?
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Why would one be surprised that Kiss had branched out into a line of branded Mr. Potato Head dolls? After all, they've hawked condoms, and coffins, and Barack Obama T-shirts, and coffee, and... well, the list goes on. But there's something almost cuddly about these renderings of Kiss in spud form, a certain roundness that's missing from the latest comic-book renderings of the group. And it's making me want to force through a lot of puns involving Kiss song titles and various ways of serving potatoes—"I Love It Baked"? "Turn On The Broiler"? "Cold G(rat)in"?—but instead I'll just show you the prototypes of the potatoes themselves, because really, the headline of this post alone is groanworthy enough.
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"The KISS Coffeehouse is releasing KISS Hotter Than Hell Ketchup! The Coffeehouse will be sampling KISS Ketchup & fries at noon on Sept 6th. Bottles of KISS Ketchup will be on sale for $7.95." [
