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Gene Simmons kept yelling “Turn on the music!” at the Barnes & Noble on Warren Street, where the Kiss rocker was signing copies of his humble book “Me, Inc.”

“Like a bad joke they played Peter Criss,” said my literary legman.

Drummer Criss, who sang “Beth” and “Hard Luck Woman,” has been fired or retired from the group three times.