“I have absolutely no regrets. But with Eric Carr’s illness, I wish I’d handled that differently. The idea that someone close to me had cancer and was going to die, I couldn’t take it in”: Paul Stanley recalls the darkest day in the history of Kiss

Kiss in 1981.

When Kiss drummer Peter Criss quit the band in 1980, it presented a young musician named Paul Caravello with the opportunity of a lifetime.

After taking the stage name Eric Carr, the New York-born drummer laid down the beat for the self-styled Hottest Band In The World for the next 11 years until he succumbed to heart cancer at the age of 41.