{"id":77887,"date":"2024-04-04T03:03:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T07:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/04\/04\/pophouse-buys-rights-to-kiss-heres-what-they-have-planned\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T03:03:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T07:03:23","slug":"pophouse-buys-rights-to-kiss-heres-what-they-have-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/04\/04\/pophouse-buys-rights-to-kiss-heres-what-they-have-planned\/","title":{"rendered":"Pophouse Buys Rights to KISS \u2013 Here\u2019s What They Have\u00a0Planned"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tPophouse \u2014 the Swedish company that backed ABBA\u2019s Voyage show in London and owns rights to music by Swedish House Mafia<\/a>, Avicii<\/a> and Cyndi Lauper<\/a> \u2014 is acquiring KISS<\/a>\u2019 publishing, recording royalties and trademarks, including both the band\u2019s logo and its iconic makeup design. The deal, announced April 4, will result in a Pophouse-produced KISS hologram show, using some of the same technology as ABBA\u2019s Voyage.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cWe have a lot of plans for KISS,\u201d Pophouse CEO Per Sundin tells Billboard<\/em>. Although Sundin says the company bought out the rights owned by frontmen Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, they will work with the company to develop the show, which is expected to open in 2027 in a U.S. city that Sundin declined to name. \u201cWe want to keep to the legacy,\u201d Sundin says. \u201cWe want to extend it and amplify it for new generations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe band got interested in a possible deal when manager Doc McGhee saw Voyage \u201cand he loved it and contacted us,\u201d Sundin says. Over the course of the band\u2019s End of the Road World Tour, the two sides met in Milan and Stockholm, thinking about what a hologram show could look like.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe went to see the ABBA show and it blew our socks off,\u201d Simmons tells Billboard<\/em>. \u201cAnd the technology since then has improved by leaps and bounds. We\u2019ve seen sketches of what it will look like and we looked like the X-Men.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLike dozens of other investors, Pophouse buys rights to songs and in some cases recordings or likenesses. But it tends to take a more active approach than most, with a focus on theatrical or immersive entertainment, rather than simply collecting royalties. In addition to the ABBA show, it runs the ABBA Museum and the Avicii Experience<\/a>, both in Stockholm.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe idea of a hologram show seems ideal for KISS, whose concerts were always heavy on spectacle. \u201cEverything is theater,\u201d says Simmons. \u201cWe wanted bombast theater.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOver the course of its career, KISS inspired the KISS Army, formed around an act that could have been described as the hottest brand in the land, with deals that included KISS Kondoms and a KISS Kasket. (Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell was buried in one that Simmons donated.) Now, after the End of the Road tour, \u201cthe end is actually the beginning,\u201d Simmons says. \u201cIf you\u2019re a caterpillar who can\u2019t imagine what the future will look like, you think of the cocoon as the end, and it is the end of the caterpillar, but it can\u2019t imagine sprouting wings and evolving into this beautiful creature that flies up to the heavens.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPophouse would not comment on the terms of the deal, which are presumably more complicated than a straightforward purchase of publishing rights. At this point, the band may be better known for its concerts than its songs. But the deal includes those, plus recording royalties. Pophouse also has a good relationship with UMG, which owns the band\u2019s recordings, since Sundin was previously managing director of Universal Music Sweden and president of Universal Music Nordics. The band\u2019s trademarks belonged to Simmons and Stanley, including the makeup designs for their characters: The Demon (Simmons), the Starchild (Stanley), the Spaceman (originally Ace Frehley, more recently Tommy Thayer) and the Catman (originally Peter Criss, more recently Eric Singer).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Pophouse \u2014 the Swedish company that backed ABBA\u2019s Voyage show in London and owns rights to music by Swedish House Mafia, Avicii and Cyndi Lauper \u2014 is acquiring KISS\u2019 publishing, recording royalties and trademarks, including both the band\u2019s logo and its iconic makeup design. The deal, announced April 4, will result in a Pophouse-produced KISS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}