NEWS – Paul Stanley Discusses Kiss’ Early Philosophy

Despite his crimes against fashion and good taste with the promo video for Tears Are Falling, Kiss frontman Paul Stanley has proven that not only is he a talented songwriter and performer but also a shrewd businessman. Along with bandmate Gene Simmons, fifty-eight year old Stanley has become one of the most iconic rock stars of all time as the Starchild.

In an interview with Fox Business, Stanley explains how the band first approached rock ‘n’ roll; “I think I come from a philosophy, I call it ‘The Assumption of Commonality.’ I tend to think instead of trying to second-guess what the public needs, if you can identify in yourself what your needs and desires are you can maximise and build on that. With Kiss, for example, that’s thirty-five years, eighty million albums sold, three thousand licenses. What we basically wanted to do was become the band we never saw. In other words, as fans of rock ‘n’ roll we figured why not be the band that we needed to see and figuring, we’re not that much different than the public, it’ll fulfil that need. And we were right.”