“Rise to It” by Kiss

"Rise to It" was the third and last single Kiss pulled from Hot in the Shade, their 15th studio album, and it's Paul Stanley's show: he wrote it with Bob Halligan, sings lead, plays slide guitar and co-produced it with Gene Simmons, who holds down the bass. It starts on an acoustic intro that has drawn comparisons to Cinderella's "Bad Seamstress Blues", and the rest is glam metal, with a lyric about an unknown musician vowing he'll make it.

It was also the last Kiss single with Eric Carr on drums; he was diagnosed with terminal heart cancer after the tour that followed. The song stayed in the set from that tour's second show to its last, then vanished for good. It scraped to 81 on the Hot 100, Kiss's last trip there, and 40 on Mainstream Rock.

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