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'Nobody ever really says goodbye,' said rock critic Selvin, citing comebacks over the years by the likes of Cher, Steve Miller and the Grateful Dead. The concert will be available to watch live on Pay-Per-View. On Saturday, the memorable stagecraft that made Kiss one of the biggest selling hard rock bands in the world will come to an end, as its members perform what they are touting as their final show of their aptly titled, four-year-long 'End of the Road World Tour' - at Madison Square Garden in New York. 'Their schtick lifted them up to the absolute top,' music writer Joel Selvin, the author of numerous books about rock musicians including Linda Ronstadt, the Grateful Dead and Sly and the Family Stone, told NPR.

In the 50 years since Kiss first kicked and thrashed its way onto the New York rock scene, the band has given the world sing-and-shout-along hits like 'Detroit Rock City,' 'Crazy Crazy Nights' and 'Beth,' and live performances replete with blood-spattering, fire-breathing, pyrotechnics and gobs of cartoonish stage makeup. Kiss band members, from left, Tommy Thayer, Gene Simmons, Eric Singer and Paul Stanley participate in the ceremonial lighting of the Empire State Building on Thursday in New York.

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