Lick It Up is the eleventh studio album by American hard rock band Kiss. On the day of its 1983 release, the band members appeared on MTV without their trademark make-up. It was the first public appearance without make-up by the band since their very early days, and their first for Mercury Records, where they had been signed with following their departure from Casablanca Records.<\/p>\n
Lick It Up was certified platinum on December 19, 1990. It was placed at #10 on Guitar World’s Readers Poll of the Top-10 Guitar Albums of 1983. Kerrang! listed Lick It Up #3 on its list of the best hard rock albums in 1983. The album marked a turnaround in the band’s flagging fortunes during the previous several years and successfully introduced them to a new generation of fans, as well as marking the beginning of the “unmasked” era that would last for the next decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lick It Up is the eleventh studio album by American hard rock band Kiss. On the day of its 1983 release, the band members appeared on MTV without their trademark make-up. It was the first public appearance without make-up by the band since their very early days, and their first for Mercury Records, where they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":4030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[16,1],"class_list":["post-4027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kiss","tag-hard-rock","tag-international-rock"],"yoast_head":"\n