Gene Simmons Marries Longtime Girlfriend

Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed attend the "Scarface" Blu-Ray DVD Release Party in Los Angeles.

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Kiss bassist Gene Simmons married Shannon Tweed, his girlfriend of 28 years and mother of his two adult children, at a ceremony in Beverly Hills on Saturday. The wedding, which was held outdoors at the Beverly Hills Hotel, was filmed for the couple's A&E reality show, Gene Simmons Family Jewels. A special episode focusing on the wedding is expected to air on the network on October 18th.

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The wedding had 400 guests, including Hugh Hefner, Bill Maher and several of Simmons' current and former Kiss bandmates. Kiss guitarist Paul Stanley was a member of the rocker's wedding party.

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Song Stories

“Push It”

Salt-N-Pepa | 1987

Originating as a B side to their cover of the Stax classic “Tramp,” Cheryl “Salt” James, Sandi “Pepa” Denton and Dee Dee “DJ Spinderella” Roper came up with the goods on this career-making, Grammy-nominated platinum single about working it on the dancefloor. “Push It” has been sampled and spliced to death since it debuted in 1987, yet the original track is as fresh and fly as when SNP — among the few original women of hip-hop — debuted it. “Most men will never believe ‘Push It’ was never about sex,” said James. “And that’s why the record went to Number One,” said Denton. “Everybody thought it was about sex.”

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