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Love Gun is a Heavy metal act. Their sound grew out of Deep Purple, Albert King, Led Zeppelin, The Crystals and Alex Van Halen. Those roots explain a lot about how Love Gun arrange songs and choose their tones. Their influence carried into Tone-Lōc and Def Leppard, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 7 connections around Love Gun, reaching back through Deep Purple and forward to Tone-Lōc. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Love Gun is the sixth studio album by American hard rock band Kiss, released on June 17, 1977, by Casablanca Records. Casablanca and FilmWorks shipped one million copies of the album on this date. It was certified platinum and became the band's first top 5 album on the Billboard 200. The album was remastered in 1997 and again in 2014. Love Gun is the first Kiss studio album to feature a lead vocal performance from Ace Frehley, thus making it the first to feature lead vocal performances from all four band members.
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Love Gun grew out of Deep Purple, Albert King, Led Zeppelin and The Crystals, went on to shape Tone-Lōc and Def Leppard. 7 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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