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Detroit Rock City is a song by the American hard rock group Kiss featured on their 1976 album, Destroyer. The song was written by Paul Stanley and Bob Ezrin and is about a real Kiss fan who was killed in a car accident on his way to a Kiss concert (in the intro you can hear a report on a car accident, narrated by Gene Simmons). The song, recorded and released as a single in 1976, was the third single off of Kiss’s album Destroyer and was planned to be their last in support of the album.

As a single, it did poorly in sales and radio play (other than in Detroit), and failed to chart in the U.S. even though it would prove to be a fan favorite. It came as a surprise that the B-side “Beth”, a ballad sung by drummer Peter Criss, wound up catching on in different markets in the United States, so the single was reissued with “Beth” as the A-side and “Detroit Rock City” as the B-side.

During the Love Gun/Alive II tour, Paul changed the lyric, “I know I’m gonna die, why?” to “I know I’m gonna die, and I don’t care!”

The song was #6 on VH1’s 40 Greatest Metal Songs, and is featured on the album Heavy Metal – The First 20 Years which was released on July 25, 2006.

The song’s title was used for a 1999 motion picture in which a group of teenage Kiss fans travel to Detroit to see the band in 1978.

The Detroit Tigers use the song when the players take the field, and also on various radio and television broadcasts of games. It is also sometimes played right before the first face-off in Detroit Red Wings games.
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  • The Very Best Of Kiss
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  • Destroyer
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  • KingFahtah

    Detroit's more a stone age city now innit?

    yesterday morning

  • robmc65

    best band of all time my first concert

    yesterday morning

  • Fear432

    Kick ass!

    10 days ago

  • TheDarkSide73

    Detroit "get jacked up" Rock City

    13 days ago

  • peterbiltoutlaw

    you gotta lose your mind in Detroit, Rock City

    22 days ago

  • jc3usa

    The Super Heroes of Rock!!

    last month

  • xtwntraphq

    I prefer LIVE Kiss tunes...but this will do. Studio Kiss just doesn't cut it for moi :)

    March 2012

  • DavCnuk

    this IS perfect rock song!

    March 2012

  • WindOfChanges

    would say this is pretty close to a perfect rock song. [3]

    March 2012

  • IgorCampinas

    would say this is pretty close to a perfect rock song. [2]

    March 2012

  • hairmetalfan63

    Kiss is a great band. Classic song!

    March 2012

  • Rockinfreddy

    Ganz großer Sport

    February 2012

  • guitarspawn

    CLASSIC

    January 2012

  • PeterWalton

    Always loved the intro to this song.

    January 2012

  • MoparGeorge

    Everybodys gonna leave their seat!!!

    January 2012

  • MichaelMizzanin

    EARGASM

    January 2012

  • rocknurse1

    They always know how to ROCK!!!

    January 2012

  • catman903

    KISS ROCKS

    December 2011

  • nopuppet

    \m/

    December 2011

  • zepp44

    great :)))

    November 2011
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