A deluxe remastered edition of KISS’ sixth studio album, 1977’s Love Gun, will be released this Tuesday, October 27, in conjunction with the band’s 40th anniversary celebrations.

The expanded two-CD collection will include a bonus disc containing a variety of previously unreleased live and demo recordings, as well as a 1977 interview with singer/bassist Gene Simmons.

Released in June of ’77, Love Gun peaked at #4 on the Billboard 200 and includes the hit single “Christine Sixteen,” which reached #25 on the  Hot 100 chart.

The record also features the Ace Frehley showcase “Shock Me” and “Then She Kissed Me,” a gender-switching rendition of the 1963 Crystals hit “Then He Kissed Me.”  The album has sold more than 4 million copies in the U.S. to date.

The bonus CD includes a variety of demos from the Love Gun sessions, as well as live versions of the title track, “Christine Sixteen” and “Shock Me” from a December ’77 concert in Landover, Maryland.  The deluxe package includes new liner notes penned by Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott.

KISS will wind down its 40th anniversary tour next month with its first-ever Las Vegas residency, a nine-show engagement at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.  The KISS Rocks Vegas dates are scheduled for November 5, 7, 8, 12, 14, 15, 19, 22 and 23.

Here is the complete track list for the deluxe reissue of Love Gun:

CD One: Original Album
“I Stole Your Love”
“Christine Sixteen”
“Got Love for Sale”
“Shock Me”
“Tomorrow and Tonight”
“Love Gun”
“Hooligan”
“Almost Human”
“Plaster Caster”
“Then She Kissed Me”

CD Two: Demos, Interview & Live
“Much Too Soon” (Demo)*
“Plaster Caster” (Demo)*
“Reputation” (Demo)
“Love Gun” (Teaching Demo)*
“Love Gun” (Demo)*
Gene Simmons Interview (1977)*
“Tomorrow and Tonight” (Demo)*
“I Know Who You Are” (Demo)*
“Love Gun” (Live 1977)*
“Christine Sixteen” (Live 1977)*
“Shock Me” (Live 1977)*

* = Previously Unreleased.

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Ringo Starr has been named the latest spokesperson for Skechers.

The legendary drummer will endorse Skechers Relaxed Fit footwear in a campaign that will launch next spring with a new TV commercial.

Skechers notes that until now, the Relaxed Fit footwear ads have focused on pro athletes.

It says, “[W]e can’t wait for everyone to see how Ringo’s charm and cool charisma makes him the perfect ambassador for Relaxed Fit.”

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Carlos Santana will perform an instrumental version of “The Star-Spangled Banner” Saturday at Game Four of the 2014 World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Kansas City Royals in San Francisco, a Fox spokesman confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.

Country singer Trisha Yearwood will perform the national anthem before Game One Tuesday in Kansas City.

Singer Phillip Phillips has been tapped to perform the national anthem Wednesday night before Game Two.

The country group Little Big Town will perform the song before Game Three on Friday.

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Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry released a new memoir titled Rocks: My Life In and Out of Aerosmith earlier this month, and he’s wrapping up a book-signing tour in support of the tome tonight in Los Angeles.

In Rocks, Perry charts his journey from a guitar-obsessed teenager to becoming a driving force in one of America’s greatest rock bands, while delving into many of the triumphs and low points he experienced along the way.

A large part of the book is dedicated to Joe’s complicated and often contentious relationship with Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler.

Perry tells ABC News that while he did include a lot of negative aspects of his dealings with Tyler, he also wanted to give a balanced account of their history together.

“I didn’t want to have this be like a ‘well, he did this and he did that’ [story],” says Joe.  “I wanted it to be as equal as possible [and] take responsibility for my end of the down sides of things, but also…let people know that for all the times when they would focus on the ups and downs of Steven’s and my relationship, there was also a lot of good times in there.”

Perry also explains that he decided not to shy away from writing about incidents that might cast himself in a negative light.

“You go…’do I want to put that in the book and have people know that side of me, that I kind of like slipped or…I’m responsible for…the down side of that?” he notes.  “And, of course, the answer’s ‘yes,’…because I felt I had to be as open as possible with this and let as much truth out there as possible, to let people know my side of the story.”

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer says he considers Rocks “an up book,” pointing out that it shows that Aerosmith is “still able to work out all those problems” it’s faced through the years.

Meanwhile, Perry maintains that his decision to write a book about the history of Aerosmith now doesn’t mean that’s the end of the band’s story.

“I’m here to say the band is not breaking up,” he declares.  “We have plans for touring next year, things like that, so…I just wanted to get a lot of the things out up ’til now.”

That being said, Perry admits that he and his band mates realize as the years pass that there’s a finite amount of time left for Aerosmith.

“We don’t know how much longer it’s gonna go,” he notes.  “Like, during this last tour, [drummer] Joey [Kramer] had problems with his heart, and we didn’t know what was gonna happen with that.  I mean, we’re all at that age where things like that can happen.”  Kramer inevitably was able to return to the group before the end of the tour.  As Perry points out, “10 days later, he was back on the throne flailing like he was 10 years younger.”

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A U.S. district court judge has ruled against Led Zeppelin’s surviving members in their attempt to have a copyright-infringement lawsuit involving the band’s “Stairway to Heaven” either moved to a California court or dismissed completely.

The suit, which claims that the opening of “Stairway” was cribbed from an obscure 1968 instrumental titled “Taurus” by the group Spirit, was filed in this past May in Pennsylvania and the case currently is slated to be tried there.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, a memorandum issued by Led Zeppelin’s attorneys asking for the dismissal or change of venue stated, “The individual defendants are British citizens residing in England, own no property in Pennsylvania and have no contacts with Pennsylvania, let alone ties sufficient to render them essentially at home here.”

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit, the family of late Spirit guitarist Randy California, countered by amending their lawsuit to add the claim that through “the exploitation of ‘Stairway to Heaven,'” the band’s members “make millions of dollars from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania” via “CD sales, digital downloading, radio and television play, advertising, marketing, concert performances” and other avenues of income.

Justice Juan Sánchez denied the Led Zeppelin members’ request for a dismissal or a transfer of venue, although he did so without prejudice, which means that the rockers can attempt again to have the suit dismissed or the site moved.

“Stairway to Heaven,” of course, is one of Led Zeppelin’s most popular songs. Incidentally, the album it first appeared on, 1971’s Led Zeppelin IV, is scheduled to be reissued on October 28.

Deluxe versions of the record will include a previously unreleased version of the tune.

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