The wild history of Kiss -- and how they almost never made it out of Queens

In the early 1970s, David Bowie, Lou Reed and the New York Dolls made men in makeup cool. So it was no wonder that a Queens band wanted to try it out, too. "Kiss originally wore lipstick and eyeliner," recalled musician Binky Philips, who went to high school with guitarist Paul Stanley. "But Gene [Simmons,...