Melbourne Herald Sun has issued the following report from Cameron Adams:

KISS frontman PAUL STANLEY has lashed out at people who download music illegally.

"Downloading is one of the tragedies of the 21st century," Stanley said yesterday. "Under the guise of technology and fancy jargon, people have legalised stealing.

"When you say you're sharing files... you can't share what you don't own.

"I can't share your car. Sharing something with one person is one thing, sharing with tens of thousands of people is a crime. It's robbery."

Stanley rejected claims rock bands such as KISS and METALLICA had made enough money to not worry about downloading.

"I don't owe anyone any justification for wanting to get paid," he said. "For anybody else to decide when I have enough money is bollocks.

"I feel angry about it happening to me, but it will kill new artists.

"New bands depend upon that money to carry on. They desperately need that money and, on principle, I want it."

Stanley is in Melbourne for a solo tour to promote his album Live To Win.

The album is a creative outlet for Stanley, with KISS canny enough to know their fans only want to hear greatest hits, not new material.

But fans attending Stanley's solo shows at the Palais tonight and tomorrow won't miss out on KISS favourites such as 'I Was Made For Lovin' You', 'Detroit Rock City' and 'Shandi'.

"I don't think anybody should... force an audience to hear a whole new album," he said. "That's not what they came for.

"Whether it's the Stones or (Sir Paul) McCartney, if you went to their show and they played their whole new album you'd want to hang yourself.

"So I'm mixing in KISS songs with some solo songs: it's a pretty healthy night of me."

While Stanley, 55, remains a private rock star, his KISS bandmate GENE SIMMONS has opened his life to TV cameras for reality show Family Jewels.

The second series of the program opened this year with Simmons filming himself having a facelift and liposuction.

While Stanley has had hips and knees replaced, he said a brief flirtation with Botox five years ago was misguided.

"There's footage on YouTube of (me on) The Chris Isaak Show.

"It's the best advertisement for not putting Botox into your face.

"I couldn't move my forehead yet my eyebrows were going up.

"There's nothing wrong with vanity, with wanting to hold on to your youth.

"But lipo will never take the place of dieting, plastic surgery will never take the place of quitting smoking or not doing drugs."