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RIP Bill Aucoin, KISS manager, 66
« on: June 29, 2010, 11:09:59 AM »
Bill Aucoin, who discovered the rock group KISS and helped build them into a musical and merchandising machine, has died from complications of prostate cancer at age 66.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/afterword/2010/06/bill-aucoin-manager-who-discovered-the-rock-group-kiss-is-dead-at-66.html

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Re: RIP Bill Aucoin, KISS manager, 66
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2010, 06:40:46 PM »
I knew he'd been their manager, but I didn't know before today that (a) the makeup characters were his idea and (b) he was gay.
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