Peter Criss

Peter Criss is a 1978 solo album from the drummer and vocalist of American hard rock band Kiss. It was one of four solo albums released by the members of Kiss on September 18, 1978. The other albums were released by Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley and Ace Frehley. The album was produced by Vini Poncia, who would go on to produce the Kiss albums Dynasty (1979) and Unmasked (1980).

The album would be the lowest charting of all the Kiss solo albums of 1978, reaching #43 on the US Billboard album chart. On the other hand, it also had the distinction of being the only album of the four to have two singles released from it: “Don’t You Let Me Down” and “You Matter to Me”.

Criss covered “Tossin’ and Turnin’,” which was a #1 hit for Bobby Lewis in the US during the summer of 1961. The song was subsequently covered by Kiss on their 1979 tour.

Much of the material on this album was originally written in 1971 for Peter’s pre-Kiss band Lips.

Harvey Milk covered “Easy Thing” for their compilation album The Singles.