Reception
Dressed to Kill peaked at #32 on the US charts and was certified Gold by the RIAA on February 28, 1977. "C'mon and Love Me" and "Rock and Roll All Nite and She (Kiss song)" were released as singles. Both failed to rise up the charts until "Rock and Roll All Nite" was released in its live format as a single later that year off their live album Alive! and reached #12 on the singles charts.
"Rock and Roll All Nite" is one of Kiss's most well known songs and remains a permanent staple in the band's concerts. Since 1975, there has not been a single Kiss concert that did not feature "Rock and Roll All Nite". Despite all the attention the song now has, it wasn't quite famous at all upon its original release on Dressed to Kill. Only after it was released as a single on Alive!, their first live album, did the song become a well known hit. There are several other songs that are still played from Dressed to Kill such as "She", "Rock Bottom" and "C'mon and Love Me".
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“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
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—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
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—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)