In 1976, one Kiss song left Paul Stanley completely “devastated”. Now, it has been streamed 21,800,000 times

Bob Ezrin chose Gene Simmons to sing Kiss’s “God of Thunder”, a song Paul Stanley had written and expected to be his own signature track. Stanley said the decision left him “devastated” and “broken”, but it helped turn the song into one of Simmons’s defining performances and a live staple.

Stanley’s original demo, later released on the band’s 2001 box set, was faster and had a more direct rock-and-roll feel. Ezrin slowed it down, creating a more ominous arrangement, and added monster noises recorded from his sons using a walkie-talkie set. The article says the track has been streamed 21.8 million times.