Three of Gene Simmons' songs are clear re-workings of demos from the 1975 Magna Graphics Studios demo: "Calling Dr. Love" is a re-working of "Bad, Bad Lovin'"; "Ladies Room" is based on "Don't Want Your Romance"; and "Love' Em and Leave' Em" is based on "Rock and Rolls-Royce";[4] Criss's "Baby Driver" is a rewrite of a Peter Criss/Stan Penridge demo from Criss's pre-Kiss band Lips; and "Hard Luck Woman", a song Paul Stanley originally planned to pitch to Rod Stewart, was held over to provide Criss a ballad to sing following the success of "Beth".

[1] Working 16-17 hours a day, Eddie Kramer attempted to capture the live sound of the band by utilizing the entire building.

Engineer Corky Stasiak has amusingly recounted a story of his skateboarding down the steep aisle of the theater and attempting to jump onto the stage, only to pinball into the drums and microphones.

Shortly thereafter, while listening to a playback, Paul Stanley commented, “it sounds better today than it did yesterday.”[5] Rock and Roll Over was released by Casablanca Records on November 11, 1976,[6] and peaked at No.

In a contemporary review of the album, Robert Christgau wrote that Kiss "write tough, catchy songs, and if they had a sly, Jagger-style singer they'd be a menace", but are diminished by appearing as a "caricature" of themselves.