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Ace Frehley’s KISS memories leave him with ‘No Regrets’

By Sarah Rodman

 |  Globe Staff  

  November 19, 2011

As the lead guitarist for KISS, Ace Frehley galvanized the KISS army with his riffs and solos on hits like “Rock and Roll All Nite’’ and his “Spaceman’’ persona. Frehley left KISS in 1982 but returned for several tours - including a “farewell’’ jaunt - before quitting permanently in 2001. Frehley chronicles his “KISStory’’ as well as his gritty childhood in the Bronx and his years-long struggle with substance abuse in his new memoir “No Regrets,’’ out now.

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