Simmons soon wanted to record again —- this time with McDaniels, but Russell refused, citing a dislike for D's rhyming style.

In the wake of the exploding popularity of rap rock artists like KoRn, Limp Bizkit, and Kid Rock, Simmons wanted to return to the aggressive, hard rock-tinged sound that made the group famous.

Mick Simmons wanted to cash in on their employee's newly won fame.

In his book, Kiss and Make-Up, Simmons wrote "..... we liked the way they ( Slade ) connected with the crowd and the way they wrote anthems ... we wanted that same energy, that same irresistible simplicity ".

Gene Simmons wanted to create a cartoon series for his kids with a loud rock star.

Growing up, Simmons wanted to be a columnist for one of the two major newspapers in Boston.

Founder of NY Label Def Jam Russell Simmons wanted to capitalize off of the success of southern rap.

" The song contains numerous homophobic slurs directed at Jay-Z: " When these streets keep calling, heard it when I was sleep / That this Gay-Z and Cock-A-Fella Records wanted beef ", " Then you got the nerve to say that you're better than Big / Dick-suckin ' lips, why don't you let the late great veteran live ", " You a dick-ridin ' faggot, you love the attention / Queens niggas run you niggas, ask Russell Simmons " and " Put it together / I rock hos ; y'all rock fellas.

After this act of betrayal, Cog decided to give Spawn " what he always wanted " and sent him to Earth back as Al Simmons without the Hellspawn symbiote attached to him.

Simmons said for KISStory, " When we started working on " Crazy Nights ", we looked for someone else to pull the cart – another person to help guide the band … So we hooked up with a producer named Ron Nevison, who Paul had wanted to work with for a while, although I never did.

The Sedgewicks notice the change in " their dog " too, when he bolts Simmons to the ground to get a piece of turkey.

They released one demo cassette ( Minagoroshi ) in 1984 and two albums ( 1985's Senzo and 1986's Esa ) in Japan as Flatbacker in the mid-1980s before coming to the U. S. Rumor has it that Gene Simmons of Kiss, who produced their self-titled U. S. debut album, was behind the band's name change to Ezo, inspired by Eizo, an ancient name for Hokkaidō.

Given the time since the name Ewing Theory was coined and the Giants ' Super Bowl XLII victory, a number of readers suggested the name be updated to the " Tiki Theory " named after former player Tiki Barber and Simmons considered making the change, though it seems to have remained with the Ewing label.

* Al Simmons As a human, he worked as a government assassin, until he had a change of heart.

He made an additional statement, under oath, supporting his sentence: " I, Ronald Gene Simmons, Sr., want it to be known that it is my wish and my desire that absolutely no action by anybody be taken to appeal or in any way change this sentence.

Musically, although Lee's use of sequencers and synthesizers remained the band's cornerstone, his focus on new technology was complemented by Peart's adaptation of Simmons electronic drums and percussion.

Vices included the band's first No. 1 single: Simmons ' signature tune " Black Water ", which featured the memorable refrain, " I'd like to hear some funky Dixieland, pretty mama come and take me by the hand ".

Kiss bassist Gene Simmons admitted that his band's early songwriting ethos and stage performance was influenced by Slade.

Due partly to disputes over what his role in the band was and his pay would be ( some reports indicated that Vincent had asked for, and was flatly denied, a percentage of the band's gross profits ), and despite the exhortations of both Simmons and Stanley, all through his tenure with the band Vincent refused to sign any contract making his employment official.

This was the band's first album since their 1984 debut Lay Down the Law to be produced by someone other than Gene Simmons.

Tomi Putaansuu, while interviewing the band Kiss for Inferno magazine, gave the band's bassist / vocalist, Gene Simmons, a copy of Lordi's debut album, Get Heavy ( 2002 ).

" Nothin ' to Lose ", the band's first single, is a song written by Simmons and sung by him, Criss and Stanley.

As well as releasing Dome band albums, Gilbert and Lewis produced and released records by Desmond Simmons ( who played Wire bandmate Colin Newman's solo albums A-Z and Not To ) and AC Marias, on the band's label.

Although according to Simmons and Stanley, Vinnie Vincent was never " officially " a member of the band, he appears on the cover and is credited in the liner notes as the band's lead guitarist.

It was the band's second album to be produced by KISS bassist Gene Simmons.

Hall later had gender reassignment surgery and became Dawn Langley Simmons, under which name she wrote a biography of Rutherford in 1983.

Moneta is the name assumed by a character in Dan Simmons ' Hyperion Cantos.

In Ilium by Dan Simmons, ( 2003 ), a woman who is addressed as the Wandering Jew plays a central role, though her real name is Savi.

* The 1960 film of the same name starred Burt Lancaster as Gantry and Jean Simmons as Sister Sharon Falconer.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

Earl Simmons ( born December 18, 1970 ) better known by his stage name DMX ( also known as Dog Man X and Dark Man X ) is a multi-Platinum American rapper and actor.

Zitkala-Ša ( 1876 – 1938 ) ( Dakota: pronounced zitkála-ša, which translates to " Red Bird "), also known by the missionary-given name Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a Sioux writer, editor, musician, teacher and political activist.

She was raised there by her mother, Ellen Simmons, whose Sioux name was Taté Iyòhiwin ( Every Wind or Reaches for the Wind ).

She is buried under the name of Gertrude Simmons Bonnin in Arlington National Cemetery.

Miss Simmons also appears in several Elia essays under the name " Alice M ." The essays " Dream Children ," " New Year's Eve ," and several others, speak of the many years that Lamb spent pursuing his love that ultimately failed.

Miss Simmons eventually went on to marry a silversmith by the name of Bartram and Lamb called the failure of the affair his ' great disappointment.

Fischer Brothers Aviation, Pacific Island Aviation, Business Express Airlines and Simmons Airlines formerly operated under the Northwest Airlink name.

Celebrity sightings included Tom Cruise, Pia Zadora, Shannon Tweed, Gene Simmons and Rick Springfield, to name but a few.

* Keen Kutter, a trade name first used by Simmons Hardware Company of St. Louis, Missouri in 1866

Faarooq quietly retired after an angle which saw him fired from the SmackDown brand and subsequently abandoned by his Acolytes Protection Agency tag partner John " Bradshaw " Layfield, making occasional appearances since then under his real name of Ron Simmons.

They decided to drop the name, and came up with the name Wicked Lester, which Simmons liked because it was unusual.

On June 8, 2011, ESPN's Bill Simmons launched a sports and popular culture website titled Grantland. com, a name intended to honor Rice's legacy.

Yunmen's Japanese name, Ummon, was the namesake for a character which was featured prominently in Dan Simmons ' acclaimed Hyperion Cantos science fiction series ; Simmon's Ummon was a vastly advanced, intelligent AI from the " TechnoCore ", who reveals key plot elements to the main characters, through koans and mondo ( dialogue ).

In 1970, Frank Zappa formed a new version of The Mothers of Invention which included British drummer Aynsley Dunbar, jazz keyboardist George Duke, Ian Underwood, Jeff Simmons ( bass, rhythm guitar ), and three members of The Turtles: bass player Jim Pons, and singers Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, who, due to persistent legal and contractual problems, adopted the stage name " The Phlorescent Leech and Eddie ", or " Flo & Eddie ".

Joseph Ward Simmons ( born November 14, 1964 ), known by the stage name Rev.

He wrestled Ron Simmons on WWE Heat, under the name Aaron Aguilera ( his real name ).