She worked six days a week from 7am till 7pm in a sweat factory. It takes a while for a snake to shed its skin, let’s say.” Not so easy for me I’ve got to take off the make-up and I’m drenched with blood, so I’ve got to shower away the stench of the stage still. “Respectfully, it would be easier to be Keith Richards because when he gets offstage, he’s got his sneakers and his t-shirt and can go do whatever it is that people do when they leave the stage.

THE KISS MAKE-UP WAS MORE THAN JUST A GIMMICK – IT’S A COMMITMENT

Even the most racist person listened to Chuck Berry.” White kids would never hang out with black kids or listen to anything they made, but there they were, dancing to his music. But before people verbalised that stuff, Chuck Berry and his guitar was doing that. “We’ve got to get along and stop treating African Americans especially so horribly in America. ROCK’N’ROLL WAS ITS OWN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT Which is why I still worship the idea of America, it can get better and it will get better.” You can have an African American president, you can also have the alternate a semi-racist, semi-extremist president, but anything’s possible. Yet, here in America there are no limits. Yes, there’s all the kinds of problems that we seem to have around the world. I LOVE AMERICAN CULTURE, BUT IT HAS PROBLEMS And I have to say, English is a much easier language to speak, it doesn’t sound like a cat throwing up a hairball!” Although, I spoke other languages then and I still do now – fluent Hungarian and Hebrew and so on. “At eight and a half years of age I’d got clipped vowels and the like because Hebrew is like that. I LEARNED TO SPEAK ENGLISH THROUGH WATCHING THE TV

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