Kiss Keep Merchandising Mania Alive With Special Edition M&M's

Blabbermouth has the lowdown on a piece of Kiss merchandising that's actually tasty, rather than tasteless: Kiss M&M's. The limited-edition chocolates are due in October, in time for Halloween — which the band will spend rocking New Orleans' Voodoo Festival, as Rock Daily reported. Plus, the band's new disc, which Paul Stanley promised "rocks big time!" should be ready pretty soon, according to our calculations.

So where do the M&M's rank in the pantheon of Kiss Kollectibles? Take a look back at the Rock List you readers voted on last year, and a gallery of Kiss' best:
• The Kiss Merchandising Machine: Kollectibles from M&M's to Mr. Potato Heads
• Readers' Rock List: 15 Best Kiss Kollectibles

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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