| "Forever" | |||||
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| Single by Kiss from the album Hot in the Shade |
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| Released | 1990 (US) | ||||
| Format | 7" | ||||
| Recorded | The Fortress, Hollywood, CA: 1989 |
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| Genre | Hard Rock | ||||
| Length | 3 min 52 sec | ||||
| Label | Mercury 876 716 (US) | ||||
| Producer | Gene Simmons & Paul Stanley |
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"Forever" is a Kiss song from the Hot in the Shade album. It peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making it the band's first American Top 40 single since "I Was Made For Lovin' You" reached #11 in 1979. It was the band's seventh and, to date, last Top 20 US single. The song was co-written by guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley and American pop 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 prototypical 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 reach platinum status since 1982's Creatures of the Night.
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
References
| Kiss singles | |||||||
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| From Kiss | "Nothin' To Lose" | "Kissin' Time" | "Strutter" | | From Hotter Than Hell | "Let Me Go Rock N' Roll" | From Dressed to Kill | "Rock and Roll All Nite" | "C'Mon and Love Me" | From Alive! | "Rock and Roll All Nite (Live)" |
| From Destroyer | "Shout It Out Loud" | "Flaming Youth" | "Detroit Rock City" | "Beth" | From Rock and Roll Over | "Hard Luck Woman" | "Calling Dr. Love" | "Ladies Room" | From Love Gun | "Christine Sixteen" | "Love Gun" | "I Stole Your Love" | From Alive II | "Shout It Out Loud" (Live)" | "Rocket Ride" |
| From Double Platinum | "Strutter '78" | From Gene Simmons | "Radioactive" | From Ace Frehley | "New York Groove" | From Peter Criss | "Don't You Let Me Down" | "You Matter To Me" |
| From Paul Stanley | "Hold Me, Touch Me (Think of Me When We're Apart)" | From Dynasty | "I Was Made for Lovin' You" | "Sure Know Something" | From Unmasked | "Shandi" | "Two Sides of the Coin" | From Music from "The Elder" | "A World Without Heroes" |
| From Creatures of the Night | "I Love It Loud" | From Lick It Up | "Lick It Up" | "All Hell's Breakin' Loose" | From Animalize | "Heaven's on Fire" | "Thrills in the Night" | From Asylum | "Tears Are Falling" | "Who Wants to Be Lonely" | "Uh! All Night" |
| From Crazy Nights | "Crazy Crazy Nights" | "Reason to Live" | "Turn on the Night" | From Smashes, Thrashes & Hits | "Let's Put the 'X' in Sex" | "(You Make Me) Rock Hard" | From Hot in the Shade | "Hide Your Heart" | "Forever" | "Rise to It" | From Revenge | "God Gave Rock 'N' Roll to You II" | "Unholy" | "Domino" | "I Just Wanna" | "Everytime I Look At You" |
| From Alive III | "I Love It Loud (Live)" | From Kiss Unplugged | "Rock and Roll All Nite (Live Unplugged)" | From Carnival of Souls: The Final Sessions | "Jungle" | "Master & Slave" | From Psycho Circus | "Psycho Circus" | "You Wanted the Best" | "We Are One" |
