Forever (Kiss song)

Infobox Single
Name = Forever

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Artist = Kiss
from Album = Hot in the Shade
Released = 1990 (US)
Format = 7"
Recorded = The Fortress,
Hollywood, CA: 1989
Genre = Hard rock
Length = 3 min 52 sec
Label = Mercury 876 716 (US)
Producer = Gene Simmons &
Paul Stanley
Chart position =

• #8 (United States)
• #18 (Canada)
• #38 (Australia)
• #65 (UK)

Reviews =
*All Music Guide [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:5wfoz5a3ehpk link]
Last single = "Hide Your Heart" / "Betrayed" (US)
(1989)
This single = "Forever" / "The Street Giveth And The Street Taketh Away"
(1990)
Next single = "Rise To It" / "Silver Spoon"
(1990) |

"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".

The song was #3 on VH1's Awesomely Bad Metal songs.

Other appearances

"Forever" is also on the following Kiss albums:
*"Alive III" - Live version
*"The Box Set"
*"The Very Best of Kiss"
*""
*"" - Live version

References

*http://www.kissfaq.com/singles/usa/singles_usa.html
*http://www.kissfaq.com/charts/scharts.html