Love Gun by Kiss

Love Gun, Kiss's sixth studio album, came roaring out of Casablanca in June 1977, and the label wasn't shy about it: a million copies shipped on day one. Eddie Kramer produced it at the Record Plant, and it is the painted foursome at full swagger, all fat power chords, bubblegum hooks and leering come-ons, built for arenas and the fire-breathing stage show that came with them.

The big news inside the sleeve is Ace Frehley stepping up to the mike for the first time on a Kiss studio record, which means that for once all four of them, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Frehley and Peter Criss, take a turn singing lead. The title track is the strutting centerpiece, a cocksure boast of a song with Frehley's guitar spitting sparks around it. It went platinum and gave the band their first top-five album on the Billboard 200, proof that the fire-breathing circus could sell records as well as tickets.

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