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“If that album bombed we would have been dropped from the label!”: Kiss stars recall the album that saved the band

It's 50 years since the release of Kiss Alive!

MusicRadar

Juliet & Romeo review – Rebel Wilson and Jason Isaacs cameo in syrupy Shakespeare musical

With bare-faced cheek, this bardless take replaces all the original language with olden-days-effect prose – adding singing, dancing and a pointlessly starry cast

The Guardian - UK

“We got caught up in the hype. Maybe another label would have given us a clobber round the head”: how Angel delivered a 70s pomp rock classic with Helluva Band

Angel were tipped to become the next Kiss. That didn’t happen, but they still delivered a lost treasure with 1976’s Helluva Band album

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"Even now it can still get the tears running down my face": Paul Stanley - the soundtrack of my life

Paul Stanley picks his records, artists and gigs that of lasting significance, and reveals which Kiss album has "no balls"

Metal Hammer

‘Everybody wanted to put her in a box’: Love to Love You tells the intimate, harrowing story of disco queen Donna Summer

Donna Summer’s daughter, Brooklyn Sudano, and Roger Ross Williams chat to Jim Farber about the nuanced and painful truths they uncovered while making a new documentary about the legendary Queen of Disco

The Independent UK

Jay Pharaoh on why comics make us cry

Pharaoh tells Salon about his movie "Spinning Gold" and busts out an Obama impression and his "resting Kanye face"

Salon

Review: Too much spin in Casablanca Records story 'Spinning Gold'

Aficionados of '70s pop will fondly remember Casablanca Records as the home of Kiss, Donna Summer, Parliament and more. Unfortunately, the biopic about its founder intentionally remembers him too fondly, hitting more wrong notes than right ones.

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'Spinning Gold' review: 1970s record biz tale is out of tune

A gangly, unruly tale that attempts to spin the success stories of Kiss, Donna Summer and record industry executive Neil Bogart into one confounding narrative, "Spinning Gold" is a tangled mess of a movie, a tribute act masquerading as the real deal.

Tribune News Service

‘Spinning Gold’: Off-key biopic spotlights music exec behind Donna Summer, KISS

Film about Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart enlists singers to impersonate pop, rock and soul legends, and they can’t live up to the originals.

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