Paul Stanley (Stanley Eisen) celebrates his 68th birthday today (January 20th). The KISS song “Beth” is a song even non-KISS fans could appreciate.It was on Destroyer in 1976 written by Peter Criss, Stan Penridge and Bob Ezrin. It was KISS’s highest-charting hit at number-seven on the Billboard Hot 100, it was also ranked the number-three power ballad of all time by VH1.
KISS singer and guitarist Paul Stanley doesn’t play or sing on the band’s hit power ballad “Beth.” Drummer Peter Criss was the only band member in the studio with the piano and orchestra that backed him. Nevertheless, Stanley says it’s definitely an important piece of the group’s catalog.
“I kind of felt that ‘Beth’ was a real special song in that a lot of people know the song and never realized it was us. It’s one of those interesting songs where if you meet people who really don’t like KISS music, they say, ‘Well, what have you done that I would know?’ And I go, ‘Beth.’ And they go, ‘What’s Beth?’ And then you sing and they go, ‘That was you?’”
