On This Day In KISStory - 1999
As KISS music blared from loudspeakers, representatives of the media, VIPs including Detroit Rock City director Adam Rifkin, producers Kathleen Haase and Barry Levine, associate producer Tim Sullivan and Marilyn Manson guitarist John Lowrey, and KISS' family members stood by as the KISS star was unveiled at the intersection of LaBrea and Hollywood. The band received commemorative plaques from Hollywood's honorary mayor Johnny Grant, who proclaimed it KISS Day. Peter Criss hit an emotional note when he said, "I wish my mom and dad were still here to see this because I did it for them." "We wouldn't be here without you," Paul Stanley told the crowd. "This star is for you people. It has our name on it, but every one of you is responsible for it." Probably the happiest of the responsible horde was the artist who passed a large painting of the band up to the front--and got it returned with all four members' signatures
