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LydiaCriss.com
Welcome to LydiaCriss.com. This is the EXCLUSIVE site where you will be able to purchase a deluxe hard cover edition of Lydia Criss' book, "Sealed With A KISS" containing over 1,500 rare and unpublished photos, memorabilia and memories from the early days of KISS.
Visit the Photo of The Week for a peek at the treasures her book contains.
Lydia's life on the printed page is amazingly graphic in the self-published Sealed With A Kiss (filled with visual mementos galore), punctuating a journey few ever get to experience. Filled with humor, tender moments and thrilling highs, Criss was there from inception, and has captivated the KISS ascendancy with an immediacy and personality like no book ever!
Sealed With a KISS can be purchased at www.lydiacriss.com
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Lydia Interview On Amplified With Beth Jordan
Beth Jordan interviewed Lydia for her Webcast "Amplified". You can listen to it at http://www.myspace.com/amplified247
Wife's Memoir Is KISS And Tell
Rush & Molloy - New York Daily News
Rock photographer Lydia Criss saw it all while taking pictures of the Who, Rod Stewart, Van Halen and especially KISS, where her husband, Peter Criss, was drummer. Over 1,500 unpublished photos are in her memoir, "Sealed With A KISS," including this gem of Gene Simmons. In fact, Lydia Criss made a bit of rock history as the first person to put the trademark makeup on the rocker. "I helped put on the makeup, but Gene decided on the design," Lydia says. "He was really into horror and Kabuki." Criss met many on the rock scene, including a 21-year-old John Belushi, who visited the Crisses in Connecticut. "There was no cocaine, so a limo driver was sent to Manhattan to pick up a big bag of it," Criss tells us. "John dropped the coke all over the rug. No problem. He just snorted it off the floor." When Belushi told Peter Criss his idea for the Blues Brothers, the drummer said, "It'll never fly." Good thing he didn't listen.
Book Review - Sealed With A KISS
by Christa Titus
www.blistering.com
When singer/guitarist Paul Stanley thought of the name "KISS" for his band in 1973, drummer Peter Criss' then-wife, Lydia, wasn't convinced. The group "wanted everyone to remember them just as they remembered their first KISS," she writes in "Sealed With A KISS." "My reaction was the name was too soft, too girlish. Shows what I know."
Turns out she knows a lot. Lydia lived the rock star wife's dream of watching her husband rise to stardom, rubbing shoulders with celebrities like Alice Cooper, buying a mansion as her starter home and partying the nights away. She also suffered the spousal nightmare of infidelity, divorce, legal hassles and financial hardship. Having survived both sides of the coin to become a professional photographer, Lydia looks back on her life in a self-published tome that completely cleans the vaults. Her history is presented in a four-color tome designed like a high school yearbook crossed with a tour program that can sit on a shelf next to the family album.
To read the review click here.
Patti Darcy Passes On
 I would like to express my extreme sorrow upon hearing of the passing of my old friend Patti Darcy. My deepest sympathy goes out to her family and friends. She will be remembered dearly and truly missed. May she rest in peace...Lydia Criss
Lydia Interview At Classic Rock Revisited
Jeb Wright recently did an in depth interview with Lydia. Read it at ClassicRockRevisited.com
Press Release - Sealed With A KISS
by Lydia Criss
In the 1970s, KISS conquered the world of rock, redefined it, owned it. But there were no looks behind the curtain, no glimpses behind the masks of makeup, blood and hype. Until now. Sealed With A KISS brings us an uncompromising frontline look at KISS's legendary glory years and their storybook rise to unprecedented rock and roll fame.
To Read the entire Press Release click here
2006 Interview with KISS Kollector
In 2006 Lydia was interviewed for KISS Kollector Magazine about her upcoming release of Sealed With A KISS
To read the interview click here.
2005 Interview with KISS Kollector
In 2005 Lydia was interviewed for KISS Kollector Web site following her successful Rock Auction of her personal KISS memorabilia.
To read the interview click here.
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