Reason to Live

"Reason to Live" is a song by the American hard rock band Kiss featured on their 1987 album, Crazy Nights. Released as a single in 1987, the song would prove to be a minor hit for the band, making the Top 40 charts in the United Kingdom^[1] and reached number 34 on Billboard's Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks^[2] and 64 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US.^[2] The B-side is the album track by Gene Simmons, "Thief in the Night".

Written by singer/guitarist Paul Stanley and professional songwriter Desmond Child, the song is a power ballad, heavy in keyboards and production. A video was made to help promote the single, featuring clips of the band playing the song, and a woman (who is implied to have been in a relationship with Stanley) in distress and emotionally unstable and even suicidal. This is evident as she throws a wine bottle at a picture of her and Stanley, and sets his car on fire after dousing it with gasoline. She is portrayed by Playboy playmate Eloise Broady. The video received aiplay on MTV, and was directed by Marty Callner and produced by Callner, Doug Major, and Bill Brigode.^[3]

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