In a Sears department store during the summer of 1977, rock guitarist John 5 first saw the album cover that would change his life. “My first one was ‘Love Gun,’” he says of the Kiss record ...

He has an extensive collection of Kiss rock and roll memorabilia and will open the collection for public viewing in May for a limited time. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG ...

Forty-eight years later, John 5 has compiled one of the world’s largest private collections of Kiss memorabilia, more than 2,500 pieces created from 1973 to 1983, the first decade of the Rock and Roll ...