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| Released | October 17, 1989 | |||
| Recorded | July–August 1989 | |||
| Studio | The Fortress, Hollywood, California | |||
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| Length | 58:39 | |||
| Label | Mercury | |||
| Producer | Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley | |||
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Hot in the Shade is the fifteenth studio album by American rock band Kiss, released in 1989. It is the first Kiss studio album since 1981's Music From "The Elder" to feature lead vocals from someone other than Paul Stanley or Gene Simmons, with drummer Eric Carr singing lead on "Little Caesar". It is also the final Kiss album in its entirety to feature Carr before his death in November 1991 during production of the band’s next album Revenge. Unlike its predecessor album, 1987's Crazy Nights, Hot in the Shade does not heavily feature keyboards.[3]
The album includes the biggest hit of the band's non-makeup era, the power ballad "Forever",[4] which was co-written by Paul Stanley and Michael Bolton.[2] The single reached No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1990.[5]
- ^ September 2020, Dave Everley23 (September 23, 2020). "Kiss: how their long-awaited reunion turned into a catastrophe". Classic Rock. Retrieved April 10, 2021.
Their two most recent albums, 1987's Crazy Nights and 1989's Hot in the Shade, were pallid pop-metal affairs
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- ^ Inc, Nielsen Business Media (August 9, 2003). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, inc. p. 38.
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