CADILLAC, MI -- Every small town has lore, but Cadillac has a surreal story.

On Oct. 9, 1975 the rock band KISS took over this Northern Michigan town. There were parades, photo-ops, a key to the city and an iconic rock show in the school gymnasium.

It’s not just small-town lore anymore. The story reached Rolling Stone magazine that year, becoming infamous within the KISS army.

On the band’s final tour in 2019, the images captured in Cadillac flashed across the big screen in a career montage.

“We never imagined the entire town would dress in KISS makeup. And the street would be renamed KISS Boulevard,” Gene Simmons said in a 2015 interview with MLive.

“It was almost as if we were on a KISS Spaceship and landed on Planet KISS.”

Here’s a visual retelling of some of those memorable momen

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