Welcome to the 9 Lives of Peter Criss

From Wikipedia;

Criss is given co-writer credit for the ballad "Beth", which was a Top 10 #7 hit for Kiss in 1976. The song remains the highest charting song for Kiss in the USA and it earned them a People's Choice Award for "Young People's Favorite New Song" in 1977 which had tied with "Disco Duck". The song was written before Peter had joined Kiss, while he was in a band named Chelsea. Peter came up with the melody for the song while on a train to New York City from New Jersey where the band practiced. He and a fellow band member of Chelsea, guitarist Stan Penridge, wrote the song together. "[2] Later, the two would form a band named Lips.

A bootleg exists of the song from 1971, but the song's title was "Beck", named after fellow band member, Mike Brand's wife, Becky who would call often during their practices to ask Mike when he was coming home. Years later, while in Kiss, both Bob Ezrin and Gene Simmons are credited for changing the song's title to, "Beth". The song was said to be a tribute to Criss' wife Lydia, and according to interviews with Peter, he had changed some of the lyrics to reflect some of Lydia's lamenting that she missed him while on tour, but the song originated years earlier with the band Chelsea.

interesting in that the song was tied with Disco Duck.

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interesting in that the song was tied with Disco Duck.

Is it? Is it really? On the rock n roll coin isn't there a soft/romantic/serious side and the other a hard/smartass/crazy side?

yeah but it's Disco Duck!!!!!

Well, like an Oreo cookie, maybe the two sides sandwich a gooey center of musical ditziness? LOL

Did you just equate Beth with an Oreo cookie? Does that make, Hard Luck Woman, a double stuff?

Did you just equate Beth with an Oreo cookie?

I suppose I did. Beth was the most mainstream song, and everyone in the U.S. knows what an Oreo is. The real question is why do I always manage to associate everything with food (and especially junk food)?

Does that make, Hard Luck Woman, a double stuff?

(Only if she's very very lucky! Oh, my bad. )