Face the Music by Paul Stanley Summary
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Behind KISS's makeup lies a raw human story. Paul Stanley's bestselling memoir reveals childhood deafness, band feuds, and unfiltered truths that outshine his bandmates' accounts. What drives a rock icon to expose his deepest vulnerabilities after decades of fame?
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The Man Behind the Star
Paul Stanley sits before a mirror in Adelaide, Australia, in 2013, carefully painting the iconic star over his right eye-a ritual performed thousands of times. But this moment is different. For the first time in decades, he's applying makeup not as armor against the world, but as celebration of a hard-won truth: the scared kid from Queens finally made peace with himself. Born with microtia, a congenital deformity leaving him without a right ear and deaf on that side, Stanley Eisen spent his childhood as "Stanley the one-eared monster," tormented by neighborhood kids. Yet this same boy would become the Starchild, fronting one of rock's most theatrical bands. His memoir reveals something more profound than typical rock-and-roll excess-it's about transforming shame into power, isolation into connection, and discovering that the masks we wear can ultimately help us find who we really are.
The Invisible Boy
Taking the Wheel
Becoming the Starchild
Rocket Ride and Reality
Unmasking the Soul
The Legacy of Becoming
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