For a group that performed in garish makeup and costumes amid explosions and fire-breathing, it’s perhaps not surprising that Kiss did not often get much respect as musicians. Yet the band’s ...

Ace Frehley played what turned out to be his final concert at the Uptown Theater in Providence, RI on Sept. 5, 2025. Five weeks later, the Kiss co-founder was dead at the age of 74, having suffered an ...

Ace Frehley might be best known for shredding his guitar with KISS, but the biggest hit of his career didn’t come from the band that made him famous. Frehley would go on to have the most critically ...

I’ve always been an Ace guy — from the time I saw that early concert film on HBO back in the ’70s, a choice I wore with pride when Kiss released four solo albums on the same day (such a Kiss move) and ...

During their years together in KISS, Criss felt as if it was he and Frehley against Stanley and Simmons. In 2012, he told the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Ace Frehley, best known as the original lead guitarist and ...

The stage volume of Ace Frehley’s Marshall amps was “louder than God,” recalls Philip Shouse, with equal parts fondness and wonder. And when Frehley’s guitar playing was really in the zone? Shouse ...

Ace Frehley was the silver-star-painted "Spaceman" of Kiss. But even rock-legends aren’t immune to earthly hazards. During a December 12, 1976 show in Lakeland, Florida, Frehley took a terrifying ...

KISS co-founder Ace Frehley reflected on his 1978 solo hit “New York Groove” in an interview weeks before his death Frehley shared the one thing he regretted about the classic song Frehley died on Oct ...