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Ace Frehley, who played lead guitar as a founding member of the face-painted, blood-spitting, fire-breathing hard-rock band Kiss, died Thursday, according to Rolling Stone. He was 74.

Rolling Stone cited a statement from Frehley’s family and said he died in Morristown, N.J. The guitarist had suffered injuries after a fall last month and had canceled a string of tour dates; TMZ reported Thursday that he’d been on life support in a hospital.

In his alter ego as the Spaceman, Frehley played with the original incarnation of Kiss for less than a decade, from 1973 — when he formed the group in New York with Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons and Peter Criss — until 1982, when he quit not long

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