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, released on October 24, 2006. The album's title track was featured in the ''

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", twenty days prior to the album's release.

Background

Stanley last released a solo album in 1978, ''

'', which was officially released as a Kiss album. Comparing the two albums, Stanley said "It's not 1978 anymore... It's certainly the same mentality, and certainly I'm a better singer today. My perspective and where I'm at in my life at this point, and what I've experienced and seen, brings something else to the table that wasn't there then. But I still look back on that album as a really great snapshot of who I was and what I was doing then." Stanley supported the album's release with a club tour in late 2006, with one of the shows released on CD and DVD as '' One Live Kiss''.

Track listing

Personnel

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s ( 4, 7, 9) *Corky James – guitar,

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(1, 3, 6, 8, 10) * Tommy Denander – electric guitar (1, 3) * Brad Fernquist – lead guitar (1, 3, 4, 6 to 9) *

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– lead guitar (5, 10) * Andreas Carlsson – guitar (5), backing vocals (5) *Sean Hurley – bass guitar (2, 5, 10) *

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– bass guitar ( 4, 7, 9) * Victor Indrizzo – drums *Greg Kurstin –

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(4, 7, 9) *Zac Rae – piano (5) *Harry Sommerdahl – keyboards (1 to 3, 5, 7, 10) *Russ Irwin – additional keyboards and programming (4, 6, 8) *C.C. White – backing vocals (5, 10) *John Shanks – backing vocals (10) * David Campbell – conductor ( 4, 7, 9), orchestratation ( 4, 7, 9), strings arrangements ( 4, 7, 9) *Tom Jermann/t42design –

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* Alex Gibson –

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ing *Neil Zlozower –

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Charts

References

External links

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