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As the film's titular star, Joaquin Phoenix identified with the face-painted rockers.

Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley do their best Cousin Itt impressions while maintaining the band's mystique.

"There are some fans who love that record," he admits. "To me it was dishonest."

Underappreciated gems from Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy and Montrose make the list.

Guitarist says he would have gotten an operation for the chance to join his favorite band.

It's one of two songs Adams cowrote from Kiss' 1982 album 'Creatures of the Night.'

Guitarist says success was "the beginning of the end" for the original lineup.

Paul Stanley laid down the law before agreeing to end Kiss' decade-long studio hiatus.

It's one of two tracks Canadian cowrote for 'Creatures of the Night' before he made it big.

Even more oddly, six years later Gene Simmons appeared on the big screen in the exact same outfit.

Longtime guitarist says Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley never got the credit they deserve as musicians and songwriters.

Ex-guitarist says Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons turned their backs on a lineup with a lot of promise when they brought back Ace Frehley and Peter Criss.

"If I had done that, I would have negated my entire non-makeup era."

Future Kiss star was gifted an instrument – and he ignored it for months.

The decade saw the band deliver a stunning return to form, succumb to grunge and bring back the face paint.

The band lost its makeup and two founding members but fought its way back to the top of the rock world.

Kiss star recalls teenage parties when he behaved “like a vulture.”

He claims the original members "should have been" with Kiss for 50 years.

He details the epiphany that ended his womanizing.

"Oh, my God, what’s going on here?" the bassist recalls thinking.