SHOWING HER FACE. A LIFE EXPOSED, PAUL STANLEY

At first glance, Stanley Bert Eisen, a working-class Jewish boy from Queens, New York, didn't seem like the ideal candidate for rock superstardom. Besides having been born with one of the least catchy names in rock and roll history, he suffered from a deformity in his right ear that left him deaf in that ear. Trapped for years by profound psychological trauma, the need to fill the emotional void resulted in a fierce determination to reinvent himself completely. With his face covered in makeup and his deformed ear hidden beneath a cascade of curls, Bert metamorphosed into Paul Stanley, the swaggering, swaggering, and self-assured Starchild, singer and rhythm guitarist of the band KISS. In "Facing the Music," Stanley reveals for the first time the best and worst moments of his life both inside and outside the band that made him famous.
Accompanied by previously unseen photos and images, Paul Stanley's autobiography is a comprehensive and unflinching portrait of a rock star's life: the stories behind his most famous songs, conflicts and betrayals, plus all the drama and pyrotechnics that characterized KISS on and off stage. Raw and confessional, it offers an unusually candid perspective on his personal relationships and often turbulent dealings with his bandmates. No one comes out looking good, not even Stanley himself, who combines stunning personal revelations with fascinating and, at times, sordid professional anecdotes that will shock even the most devoted KISS fans.

"Much more than a simple collection of lurid anecdotes, Face the Music is a story of overcoming adversity and searching for identity, set in the delirious world of stadium rock. Stanley methodically peels back the superficial layers of KISS to reveal, in a prosaic and natural way, the forces that operated behind the music. He was the last of the four original members to write an autobiography, and his may well be the definitive one."
—Keith Spera, The Times-Picayune

"A complete surprise. After years of carefully maintaining his Starchild facade, Stanley lets his guard down in this book to unleash a torrent of confessions and feelings that flows like molten lava over more than four hundred pages. A refreshingly honest autobiography."
—Brad Tolinski, Guitar World

"The level of introspection and reflection that Stanley offers is unheard of for a rock biography. Less interested in generating scandalous headlines, it's clear that his main concern is telling the story the right way."
—John Parks, Legendary Rock

"Paul Stanley has proven himself to be an artist with his music, on the canvas and now with this wonderful book."
—Jimmy Page

• Hardcover with dust jacket
• 464 pp. + 16 pp. color
• 16.5 x 24 cm. 60 photos
• Cover by Javier Rodríguez
• ISBN 978-84-17645-05-2