Feeling the group lacked direction, Wicked Lester leaders Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons left soon after the album's rejection and formed another identically-named group with a more rock-oriented focus, soon recruiting drummer Peter Criss and guitarist Ace Frehley and changing the newer group's name to Kiss.
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