[3] Credited with discovering Kiss, Aucoin managed the group for nearly a decade.

Aucoin was involved in the development of a television show Supermarket Sweep in the early 1970s, and went on to manage and engineer the rise of commercially successful solo acts, such as Billy Squier and Billy Idol, after managing them both in their respective bands (Piper.

[6] [7] From 2005 to 2007, Aucoin went into the Broadway business with a staging of The Who's Quadrophenia, which showed intermittently for two years in Anaheim and Los Angeles.

Aucoin died from surgical complications while being treated for prostate cancer, and was survived by his partner of 15 years, Roman Fernandez.

[9] A statement from Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons described him as "our irreplaceable original manager, mentor and dear friend… Words cannot convey his impact on us or those close to him.