I remember thinking they look weird. They were very small people by American standards, and they looked feminine. They didn’t look Italian or Jewish or Greek or black. They didn’t even look like hoodlums.
“They looked like what they sounded like. I was watching the music. I was listening with my eyes and I noticed the girls were screaming and that they were playing their own instruments.”
Gene Simmons old Band Looks like Beatles here
“The next Kiss or the next Beatles or whoever it is is not gonna come along, because there is no infrastructure. Here, let’s play a game. From 1958 until 1988 is thirty years. What have we got? We have Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Stones, Jimi Hendrix, the biggest bands of all time. And then in disco, you had Madonna, Donna Summer, all that. The biggest of all. And then in pop, you had Michael Jackson, The Jackson 5, all that stuff… and U2. And in heavy metal, you had Metallica and Iron Maiden and all that stuff. And Prince and all that.”
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Gene Simmons credits The Beatles for the biggest impact on fashion in the past century.
The Kiss bass guitarist — while promoting the Sept. 9 Fashion Rocks at the Barclays Center (and live on CBS) — said:
“Not since the Renaissance have men felt comfortable in public wearing long hair — which opened the door to the counter culture. The Beatles had a societal impact on par with the advent of the birth control pill.”
sources
https://pagesix.com/2014/09/01/gene-simmons-says-the-beatles-changed-mens-fashion/
