“Forever” by Kiss

"Forever" was the second single off Hot in the Shade, Kiss's 1989 album, and it's a power ballad that starts small: Paul Stanley sings alone over an acoustic guitar, and the band only piles in at the first chorus. Stanley wrote it with Michael Bolton and produced it with Gene Simmons, who plays bass, while Eric Carr drums, Phil Ashley adds keyboards and Bruce Kulick sings backup.

For the single, Michael Barbiero and Steve Thompson remixed it at Electric Lady in New York, and the video, perhaps the plainest Kiss ever made, just the band playing in an empty room, kept landing at the top of MTV's Dial MTV. It climbed to number 8 on the Hot 100, their first American Top 40 single since "I Was Made for Lovin' You" in 1979, and their last to date.

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