Legendary rock band Kiss to give final performances this weekend at Madison Square Garden

After 50 years, the legendary rock band Kiss will give its final performances on Friday and Saturday at Madison Square Garden. Here is a look at how the band has evolved over the years.

Here is a look back at major events in Kiss' history, taken from Associated Press interviews with Kiss members, quotes they gave to other media and material from band members' autobiographies:

1973: Gene Simmons, who worked briefly as a teacher and loved horror films and comic books, and cabbie Paul Stanley, who once dropped passengers off at Madison Square Garden to see Elvis Presley and vowed someday he'd be on that same stage, exit their band Wicked Lester and begin searching for bandmates to put together a true spectacle: an act where the show and the visuals were as important as the music. They find drummer Peter Criss, who had placed an ad in a music paper looking for a band, and Ace Frehley, who showed up at auditions with one red sneaker, one orange sneaker and a guitar.