Forever (Kiss song)
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| Single by Kiss | ||||
| from the album Hot in the Shade | ||||
| Released | January 5, 1990 (US) | |||
| Format | 7" | |||
| Recorded | The Fortress, Hollywood, CA: 1989 |
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| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 3:52 | |||
| Label | Mercury 876 716 (US) | |||
| Writer(s) | Paul Stanley and Michael Bolton | |||
| Producer | Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley | |||
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"Forever" is a Kiss song from the Hot in the Shade album. It peaked at number 8[1] on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making it the band's first American Top 40 single since "I Was Made for Lovin' You" reached number 11 in 1979. It was the band's seventh and, to date, last Top 20 US single. It also reached number 17[1] on Billboard's Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks. The song was co-written by guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley and American singer/songwriter Michael Bolton, who was then at the peak of his commercial popularity, and with whom guitarist Bruce Kulick had played previous to Kiss.
Musically, "Forever" is a power ballad. It begins with Stanley singing over an acoustic guitar intro, with the full band coming in for the first refrain.
"Forever" was released as a music video that received heavy airplay on MTV, attaining the #1 position on the video channel's "Most Requested Videos" show several times. It is perhaps the most understated video Kiss has released, as it showed the band (then consisting of Stanley, Gene Simmons, Bruce Kulick and Eric Carr) playing the song in an empty room.
Despite the success of "Forever", Hot in the Shade became the first Kiss album to fail to be certified platinum by the RIAA since 1982's Creatures of the Night.
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[edit] Other appearances
"Forever" is also on the following Kiss albums:
- Alive III - Live version
- The Box Set
- The Very Best of Kiss
- The Best of Kiss, Volume 2: The Millennium Collection
- Kiss Symphony: Alive IV - Live version
- Kiss Best - Kissology - 2008 re-recorded studio version (Japan only)
[edit] Charts
[edit] Peak positions
| Chart (1990) | Peak position |
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| Australian Singles Chart | 38 |
| Canadian Singles Chart | 18 |
| UK Singles Chart | 65 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 8 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks | 17 |
[edit] End of year charts
| End of year chart (1990) | Position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100[2] | 92 |
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Billboard singles chart history-Kiss". http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.vnuArtistId=5004&model.vnuAlbumId=1210294. Retrieved February 18, 2009.
- ^ "Billboard Top 100 - 1990". http://longboredsurfer.com/charts.php?year=1990. Retrieved 2009-09-15.
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