Kiss Perform Shandi For Murdered Girl Shandee In Mackay - Noise11 Music News
KISS, Etihad Stadium, Melbourne, Australia, 2013 Photo by Ros O'Gorman, Noise11 music news

KISS, Etihad Stadium, Melbourne Australia, 2013: Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Kiss Perform Shandi For Murdered Girl Shandee In Mackay

by Paul Cashmere on March 17, 2013

in Live,News

Kiss paid a special tribute to murdered Mackay woman Shandee Blackburn at their final Australian show in Mackay on Saturday night.

KISS, Etihad Stadium, Melbourne, Australia, Photo by Ros O'Gorman, Noise11

KISS, Etihad Stadium, Melbourne Australia, 2013: Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Paul Stanley dedicated the 1980 Kiss hit ‘Shandi’ to Shandee who lost her life just one block from her home in Mackay last month.

“Before we go on I think everybody knows about a girl named Shandee Blackburn. We lost her. We wished she could be here with us. So we’d like to sing a little something for her, all of us”.

Shandee’s mother Vicki was at the show and had put in a request for the song to be played for her daughter who was named after the Kiss song.

Check out the Kiss Melbourne review here.

Watch what Paul Stanley had to say for Shandee here:

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