Kiss, the New York group with the deep heritage of Detroit, calls it a day.

The group has announced that it will play its latest shows – a race dubbed "World of the End of the Road" – during a Wednesday night performance on "America's Got Talent".

For fans of the Motor City, the group played "Detroit Rock City".

The dates of the tours will be announced in the "next weeks", according to a press release issued following the televised performance.

Detroit was the first adopter of the makeup group in the mid-1970s, embracing the group's theatrical shows long before the rest of the country bought it. Tiger Stadium hosted the kickoff of Kiss's tour in 1996 Stanley joined Ace Frehley and Peter Criss.

The current lineup includes Simmons and Stanley with Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer. Simmons turned 69 in August; Stanley will be 67 in January.

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"Detroit Rock City," the flagship title of the 1976 Kiss album "Destroyer," was a nod to the band's intense following, with a tragic story based on a car accident involving a fan of North Carolina. Adam Rifkin's 1999 film about the passage to adulthood "Detroit Rock City" depicted four young fans heading to Kiss at Cobo Arena.

Cobo was a kind of home for the New York band. The 1975 concert album "Alive!" was partly recorded there.

Kiss wrote in a statement Wednesday night:

"All that we have built and all that we have conquered over the last four decades could never have happened without millions of people around the world having filled clubs, arenas and stadiums. and one last chance for those who have not done it yet, we say goodbye to our last tour with our biggest concert and we will go out the same way we walked in. "

Contact Brian McCollum of the Detroit Free Music Writer: 313-223-4450 or [email protected].

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