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“Christine Sixteen” is a song by American hard rock band Kiss. It originally appeared on their 1977 album Love Gun. Released as a single in the US in 1977, the song peaked at #25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart that year, and did well in Canada, peaking at #22. Written and sung by bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons, the song is about an older man with a crush on a 16 year old girl named Christine. The song’s subject and lyrics were controversial and made some hit radio stations reluctant to put it on their playlists, while others (including WABC in the band’s home town of New York, and WKBW in Buffalo) only played it after 7 PM as an album cut. The song’s title was originated by bandmate Paul Stanley who was planning to write a song under the title, until Simmons beat him to it. Two... Read on...