HARD
LUCK WOMAN
KISS
SONGWRITER: PAUL STANLEY
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: ROCK AND ROLL OVER
LABEL: CASABLANCA RECORDS
GENRE: ROCK AND ROLL
YEAR: 1976
Kiss (often stylized as KIϟϟ)
is an American rock band formed in New York
City in January 1973 by Paul Stanley,
Gene Simmons,
Peter Criss,
and Ace Frehley.
Well known for its members' face paint and stage outfits, the group rose to
prominence in the mid-to-late 1970s with its elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing,
blood-spitting, smoking guitars, shooting rockets, levitating drum kits, and pyrotechnics.
The band has gone
through several lineup changes, with Stanley and Simmons being the only members
to feature in every lineup. The original and best-known lineup consists of
Stanley (vocals and rhythm guitar), Simmons (vocals and bass), Frehley (lead
guitar and vocals), and Criss (drums and vocals)
With
their make-up and costumes, the band members took on the personae of comic
book-style characters: the Starchild (Stanley), the Demon (Simmons), the
Spaceman or Space Ace (Frehley), and the Catman (Criss). Due to creative
differences, both Criss and Frehley had departed the group by 1982.
In
1983, Kiss began performing without makeup and costumes, thus marking the
beginning of the band's "unmasked" era that would last for over a
decade. The band experienced a commercial resurgence during
this era, with the Platinum-certified album Lick It Up successfully introducing them to a new generation of fans, and its
music videos received regular airplay on MTV.
Eric Carr,
who had replaced Criss in 1980, died in 1991 of heart cancer and was replaced by Eric
Singer. In response to a wave of Kiss nostalgia in the mid-1990s, the original lineup re-united in 1996, which also
saw the return of its makeup and stage costumes. The resulting Alive/Worldwide
Tour was highly successful, grossing
$143.7 million, making it the band's most successful tour to date. Criss and
Frehley subsequently left the band again, and have been replaced by Singer and Tommy Thayer.
The band has
continued with its original stage makeup, with Singer and Thayer using the
original Catman and Spaceman makeup, respectively. In September
2018, Kiss announced that, after 45 years of recording and performing, it would
be embarking on its ongoing final tour, the End of the Road World Tour, in
2019.
Kiss is one of the best-selling bands of all time,
having sold more than 75 million records worldwide, including 21million RIAA-certified
albums. Kiss also holds the title as America's No. 1 Gold record award-winning
group of all time, having earned 30 Gold albums. Kiss has 14 Platinum albums,
with three albums being multi-Platinum. On April 10, 2014, the four original
members of Kiss were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Kiss
was ranked by MTV as the
ninth "Greatest Metal Band of All Time", and placed tenth on VH1's
"100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock" list, as well as being ranked as
the third "Best Metal and Hard Rock Live Band of All Time" by Loudwire
"Hard Luck Woman" is a song by American hard rock band Kiss and the lead
single from their 1976 album, Rock
and Roll Over. It was originally written by Paul Stanley as a possible track for Rod
Stewart, but after the success of the ballad "Beth",
Kiss decided to keep it for themselves as a follow-up. Stanley has stated his
admiration and love of Stewart's music numerous times, and that "Hard Luck
Woman" was inspired by Rod Stewart, in particular the songs "Maggie May"
and "You Wear It Well".
While Stewart’s
music served as a partial inspiration for the song, the nautical themed song
"Brandy" by American pop-rock band Looking Glass served as Stanley’s
main inspiration.
If never I met you
I'd never have seen you cry
If not for our first "Hello"
We'd never have to say goodbye
If never I held you
My feelin's would never show
It's time I start walkin'
But there's so much you'll never know
I keep telling you
hard luck woman
You ain't a hard luck woman
Rags, the sailor's
only daughter
A child of the water
Too proud to be a queen
Rags, I really love
you
I can't forget about you
You'll be a hard luck woman
Baby, till you find your man
Before I go let me
kiss you
And wipe the tears from your eyes
I don't wanna hurt you, girl
You know I could never lie
I keep telling you
hard luck woman
You ain't a hard luck woman
You'll be a hard luck woman
Baby, till you find your man
Rags, the sailor's
only daughter
A child of the water
Too proud to be a queen
Rags, I really love
you
I can't forget about you
You'll be a hard luck woman
Baby, till you find your man
You'll be a hard luck woman
Baby, till you find your man
Oh yeah, bye bye, so
long, don't cry
I'm just packin' my bags, whoo, leavin' you
Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, baby, don't cry
I gotta keep on movin', yeah movin'
Bye, bye my baby
Ooh, don't cry, lady, oh!
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