Coming up…the band who taught us how to rock KISS…like many band before them, hated their biggest hit. The ballad “Beth/” was allegedly written by drummer Peter Criss. Though Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons don’t believe he actually composed it. The band loathed Beth. They hated it so much they didn’t even show up to record it, so half the band didn’t even play on it, including Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley. Then they tried to keep it off their album. Ace Frehley was to busy playing poker to care. They buried it on a b-side until a random DJ turned the record around and made Kiss’ biggest hit. The saga behind the People’s Choice for “Favorite Song” in 1977… is NEXT on Professor of Rock.”

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The KISS Army expected their masked heroes to deliver unbridled rock anthems, and OUTRAGEOUS live shows- with smoking guitars, pyrotechnics & levitating drum kits. They wanted to Rock n’ Roll all nite, and party every day. The last thing fans expected from KISS was a tender ballad….

But when AM radio discovered “Beth” as a b-side, KISS’s record label had fueled the fire, and moved quickly, by making the melancholy love song the 4th single from the Destroyer album in ’76. The success of the ballad surprised everyone…becoming the band’s biggest American hit, and paving the way for the long string of power rock ballads that followed.

First of all “Beth” was a reworking of a song titled “Beck.” It was written by KISS original drummer Peter Criss, and Stan Pendridge when the two musicians were in Chelsea- a group based in New York City that sounded more like the Moody Blues than a heavy rock band.

Penridge and Criss wrote “Beck” as a way to razz their Chelsea bandmate Mike Brand, who was constantly being hounded by his overbearing wife named Becky, or “Beck” for short. Beck would frequently call the studio phone, while the band was rehearsing, to check on her husband, and find out when he was coming home. That’s where the opening line for the song came from: “Beth, I hear you calling, but I can’t come home right now.”

Pendridge claims the lyrics mimicked ‘word for word’ the way Brand responded to his wife when she phoned the studio and interrupted the band’s rehearsal. For several days, Pendridge whipped out a small notebook and scribbled down Brand’s replies. He called the notebook his “wizard book,” and carried it with him wherever he went. Whenever Pendridge heard someone say something he thought could be clever for song lyrics, he would jot it down in his wizard book. Peter Criss and Stan Pendridge were friends when they were in Chelsea, but, alas, when Pendridge died in 2000, their relationship was purely contentious- rife with legal and

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