A co-founder, singer, guitarist, writer and producer for Kiss, Paul Stanley requires no introduction. A lot is known about him. What wasn’t known about him until fairly recently is his lifetime passion for soul and R&B. In 2016 he used a series of club shows to launch Sou Station, a 15-piece band (including Kiss colleague Eric Singer on drums) that pays tribute to the golden days of Motown. A debut album called Now And Then mixes standards from the era with smooth, creamy originals.
In your autobiography Face The Music: A Life Exposed, you recall teenaged visits to the black neighbourhoods of Queens, New York to buy records by artists such as James Brown and Otis Redding. What made those albums special?