The world is pouring out some cold gin for the late, great Ace Frehley , the guitar spaceman of Kiss . Frehley died last night from complications after a fall, at 74. He summed up the archetypal Seventies guitar hero if anyone did — the space cadet from the planet Jendell. He epitomized the band’s comic-book superhero persona, with his silver makeup, his platform space boots, his charismatic DGAF slouch. But his sound was primal rock power, blasting his Les Paul through a Marshall stack for the deranged solos of “Shock Me,” “Strange Ways,” and “She.” The most beloved native son of Jendell is coming home.

Kiss were all about mystique — and nobody had more of it than Ace. In a band of sensible businessmen, Ace was truly the wild one, the one who really did rock & roll all night and part

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