Paul Stanley

Success wouldn’t happen by chance; it would happen by design.

My gut also told me that this was an area where work might not pay off for me—that I might get only mediocre results regardless of how much time I put into it.

We also made sure the audience could be heard throughout the show—just as you would experience it live. Most live albums in those days sounded like studio recordings until the song ended, when some applause could be heard between songs. But we wanted to portray the real concert experience. And the back cover paid tribute to those fans who made all that noise and turned our shows into such powerful communal events