Rock Posters
KISS: On Top of The Empire State Building (1976)
Large-format 1976 KISS Empire State Building poster from Barry Levine’s New York shoot, capturing the band above Gotham. Very good with light corner crinkles.
Rock Posters
$800
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Piece Details
This is the only available piece. Once purchased, it will no longer be offered in the Delickedly storefront.
Offered only after review for originality, condition, presentation, and alignment with the Delickedly quality standard.
KISS: On Top of The Empire State Building (1976)
Photographer Barry Levine took the still rising band around New York City that Bicentennial Summer to capture shots for Rolling Stone Magazine, and when the band went to the top of The Empire State Building and Levine captured them in all their glory gamely posed on the edge of oblivion with a faded Gotham in the background, well the editors at Rolling Stone thought it was the cover shot.
Then someone (named Jann?) picked actress Lily Tomlin for the cover instead.
But Levine’s photograph became an instant classic and it was summarily bootlegged at least briefly by a poster-makers of the era and was sold through a variety of hip records stores before vanishing.
This original large format poster has survived well over the past half-century, holding up as well as the band did until the passage of time finally forbade it.
But their glory years of rock n’ roll all night and party everyday radiate in this poster and they seem to sense they were, indeed, poised to be on top of the world.
Dimensions: Thirty-six inches horizontally, Twenty-four inches vertically (36 x 24”)
Condition: Very Good (Some crinkles at corners)
