“StarChild” Was Almost Named “Bandit”

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You know Stanley Eisen as Paul Stanley… or perhaps, more so…as the StarChild.

He has portrayed this persona in the rock band, KISS, for over 50 years.

But it wasn’t always going to be this way.

Along with his bandmate counterparts, the Demon, Spaceman and Catman, Stanley originally set out as the “Lone Ranger Bandit! Just imagine!…

Stanley says the StarChild actually came first–before Bandit–but there’s no known photos of the first incarnation.

He continues….“I just came up with this Lone Ranger bandit, as it became known, and it lasted maybe a month,” he said. “But I just went, ‘You know what? My gig, my face, my makeup.’ And I just went back to [the Starchild]. … A lot of people believe that [the Bandit] came first, but it actually didn’t.”

When asked about the Starchild makeup being the easiest of the Kiss characters to apply, Stanley noted, “It’s not quite so simple, because you’re painting a flat object on a 3-D face. … It’s a transformation, not just in terms of appearance, but in terms of how you’re thinking. So, to sit in a chair and have somebody do my makeup — no way. It’s part of me, and I want it to be done by me.”

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