Larger Than Life in '76

Read on for your chance to win a R250 voucher... (1.5 minute read)

Back in 1976, when Yesteryear was just a wee lad, everything around us seemed bigger, more worldly, larger than life.

On the big screen, Sylvester Stallone was Rocky Balboa, the punch-drunk, underdog hero every young lad wanted to be. Or at least until we realised that boxing was a mug's game, especially if you couldn't fight your way out of a wet paper bag :-)

On the idiot box, Lindsay Wagner was the Bionic Woman, her superhuman abilities the envy of young girls everywhere.
These days, fairly certain that Yesteryear's much better half would kill for the supersonic hearing that Wagner's Jaime Sommers was gifted with, following her fictional skydiving accident. All the better for a spot of 'cafe eavesdropping', my dear :-)

And on the radio, four glam rockers from New York City were fast becoming Rock Gods.

Heavily influenced by the New York Dolls & Alice Cooper, KISS lived a rock-star life from another planet. Painted faces, outlandish costumes and stage theatrics that forever etched themselves into living memory.

Yesteryear's first real exposure to KISS was when a Primary School cricket trip took us all the way to the big smoke of Adelaide, South Australia, where country kids like us, were farmed out with city families for a week. It was 1979.

We'll never forget the cover of 'Dynasty' and all the branded merchandise this big city kid had. Tee shirts, masks, think there was even a board game!

The real kicker though, was back home the following year, when the Show came to town. The coolest ride by far was the Gee Wizz, and for bragging rights, the aim was to share that ride with a pretty girl.

And even better, with your favourite KISS song ("I Was Made For Lovin' You") belting full throttle from the rusty carnival speakers that threatened to overload with every thump of Peter Criss's drums.

Don't think the 'Gee Wizz, pretty girl, I Was Made For Lovin' You' combo ever quite happened (for Yesteryear at least), but we won't let the truth get in the way of a good story :-)

Anyhow back to the biz at hand ... today we're looking back on Destroyer, Kiss's fourth studio album and first to feature a 'comic book' cover.

Released on March 15, 1976, the dawn of KISSmania.

To win a R250 voucher from Yesteryear:
1) buy at least 1 album from our currently advertised Hard n' Heavy range
2) tell us what Yesteryear's fave KISS song was AND
3) tell us what your favourite hard rock or heavy metal album of all time is

Enter via Comments below - one entry per customer

Closes 5pm Thurs March 16.
Spin The Wheel Draw on Fri March 17*

*minimum 2 entries required for draw to take place - we can't have a one-horse race now, can we :-)