Shane "Fire Exit" 1973

...HMV weren’t overly impressed with Shane’s rockier alternative direction as they were still trying to groom him to be a pop singer, a direction that Shane wanted no part of. “Leave that stuff to Craig Scott,” was his response. Shane returned to London staying there until 1974. Returning to New Zealand, new manager Barry Coburn placed him on the short-lived TV show PopCo, and booked him into a series of cabaret gigs around the country...
...Frustrated by this direction, Shane returned to the UK at the end of the year, where he stayed for the rest of the seventies, forming the group Killa-Hz. In 1980 Shane fell off stage during a performance and broke his pelvis, which forced Killa-Hz to disband. Shane returned to New Zealand in 1981.
Three singles were released by WEA in New Zealand in the early eighties, ‘Starting Out All Over Again'/'You Can't Change Me’, ‘Don't Play That Song Again'/'Too Good To Stop Now’ and a 12-inch single ‘Total Man'/'Another Night With The Boys'/'You Can't Change Me’. In 1986 Ode released a single ‘We've Got All Night'/'Tear It Up’. In 2001 EMI issued the CD Saint Paul – The Very Best Of. In 2010, Shane recorded an album at Stebbings called Full Circle, which was released on the re-activated Zodiac label. Shane Hales is still a working musician in Auckland and also owns a West Auckland tiling company. He is the host of the weekly TV show Rocking The Planet. - Grant Gillanders and AudioCulture
trax:
01 Wild Child 02 Very First Time 03 Danny's Song 04 Stop What I'm Doing 05 P.F. Sloan 06 Good Side Of Tomorrow 07 John Hope 08 Leaving 09 Paradise Alley 10 Bad Weather 11 Mink Julip
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