Shane (New Zealand singer)

Shane grew up in Guildford, Surrey, England, attending Park Barn Secondary School, before moving to Australia and then New Zealand in the mid-1960s.

A first single, a cover of the Harry Nilsson the Monkees song "Cuddly Toy" failed to fire, but the follow-up, a cover of Terry Knight's paean to Paul McCartney, "Saint Paul", captured the public imagination and flew to the top of the charts, where it stayed for six weeks.

While he was touring, he received word of the death of his fiancée Jan Campbell in a car crash in New Zealand and flew back home.

After a stage accident in 1980 in which Shane broke his pelvis, Killa-Hz disbanded, and after recovering from his injuries he returned to New Zealand in 1981.

[1] Shane was appointed a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to entertainment, in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours.