{"id":2443219,"date":"2019-04-20T09:49:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T15:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=825062"},"modified":"2019-04-20T09:49:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T15:49:56","slug":"kiss-paul-stanley-reveals-he-pursued-fame-because-of-a-deformity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/kiss-paul-stanley-reveals-he-pursued-fame-because-of-a-deformity\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiss\u2019 Paul Stanley Reveals He Pursued Fame Because of a Deformity\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/TBIS7_PaulStanley03_WebRez_CreditMandeeJohnson.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/kiss\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kiss\" data-tag=\"kiss\">Kiss<\/a> frontman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/paul-stanley\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paul-stanley\" data-tag=\"paul-stanley\">Paul Stanley<\/a> has shared that he was drawn to stardom because of a physical deformity he had called microtia. In <a href=\"https:\/\/players.brightcove.net\/5553822109001\/default_default\/index.html?videoId=6026409105001\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a clip from a forthcoming conversation<\/a> with Dan Rather on <em>The Big Interview<\/em>, Stanley spoke candidly about how fame compensated for his insecurities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had what\u2019s called a microtia, which is basically not having an ear \u2026 I wasn\u2019t very socially adept, and when you have something physical that sets you apart from people, it makes you the target of unrelenting scrutiny and sometimes ridicule,\u201d he told Rather.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt that point in your life when you become famous it\u2019s either a disappointment because it\u2019s not a remedy, and you either put a needle in your arm, a gun in your mouth or you live life as a victim, and I\u2019m not cut out for that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Stanley revealed he would spend time on \u201cself-exploration\u201d and \u201cwas fortunate to have success come to me and realize that it didn\u2019t change anything \u2026 I was blessed to be a part of an idea to become the band we never saw, and that led me on a course that I\u2019m still on today. Where it\u2019s taking me, God only knows,\u201d he told Rather.<\/p>\n<p>The Stanley-featured episode is set to air Tuesday, April 23rd.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kiss-paul-stanley-dan-rather-interview-825062\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiss frontman Paul Stanley has shared that he was drawn to stardom because of a physical deformity he had called microtia. In a clip from a forthcoming conversation with Dan Rather on The Big Interview, Stanley spoke candidly about how fame compensated for his insecurities. \u201cI had what\u2019s called a microtia, which is basically not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 15:38:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}