The 1980s were a different animal for Kiss. Their decade began plagued with bad music, in house troubles, and Rock & Roll not returning to what it was before disco.
Peter Criss and Ace Frehley walked away leaving Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons to pick up the pieces and start new.
Paul had an idea and talked Gene into taking a chance. They took off the face paint on MTV, and in a genre filled with very capable new players, Kiss worked to reestablished themselves as a formidable rock band.