Hey, Gene & Paul were in the financial crapper when they sold the rights to their songs to the record label. Who's fault was that? Well I don't have knowledge if this is true or not one way or the next, however if it IS true you're damned right it's thier fault!!!!!!!!! Sadly, it's true. There were some long threads about this a month or two ago. I was a doubter until I did some research. HoriPro owns the publishing rights to most of KISS' music. It's not clear about who owns the lyrics, etc. Those things are typically a different copyright. I don't have proof of Paul's or Gene's finincial records at the time, but you'd have to think they were hard up to sell the KISS catalog.
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