Michael: "Everyone understands that when you lose someone close to you it'll take a long time to get back. But when Razzle died and Sami wanted to leave I thought why grift anymore 'cause the family feeling was gone." Michael: "That band was so important thing to me that I wanted to keep on tryin' though we had our disputes. Everything changed after Razzle died and Rene Berg wasn't good enough bass player we needed." I had long before that feeling that it was useless to keep on goin'. He's cool."Īndy: "Breaking Hanoi up wasn't difficult. I can't work with people I don't respect and I can' t respect those who publically slam old bandmates down."Īndy: "I was the Hanoi Rocks! I still keep going on. Our collaboration worked for a while but then. Principally we were opposite to each other. Michael: "I really don't know why Andy acted such a way. I stopped writing own songs 'cause I thought it would be useless 'cause Andy wanted to control everything." I had influence only then when we made the arrangements 'cause Andy's songs had lots of different parts and that. At first I offered many good tunes to him but when I noticed he wanted to make all the decisions I stopped that. Michael: "I wrote many songs then" (during Hanoi Rocks period) "but you know how Andy felt about my songs. We wouldn't have that same feeling anymore and I didn't want to see that band on stage."
Hanoi was going to be same kind of a band like Foreigner or Reo Speedwagon and I didn't want that to happen. Michael: "Andy wants to do everything by himself so it was useless for me to make any suggestions. I feel secure now, I can live as I like." When Nasty and Terry joined Andy, it wasn't an issue of who turns back on who.
Michael: "Hanoi Rocks had two main characters, me and Andy and one of us had to always give in. Michael: "Hanoi was my dream and it came true. When Razzle walked in, Hanoi Rocks was then perfect." Razzle was the one who lighted up the spirit of the band. It used to have magic but now the band's just like any other rock'n'roll band. Most of the things that happened to Hanoi just happened, without plans. Its music would've been okay but not good enough for me. Hanoi wasn't the same kind of a band it used to be. All the signs pointed to the fact that I had to leave. I have fond memories from Hanoi but that thing had to stop. That would've hurt me more than done good. Michael: "The only thing I had in mind then was that I won't continue with Hanoi. Like Mike Monroe has said: "Opinions are like arseholes – everybody's got one". It's useless trying to collect them inside one entity. You cannot help but notice Razzle’s impact on the band, having him on the drums.In this part we go through interviews from 1985 until this day about the break-up of the band. Thanks to the band’s guitarist Andy McCoy for quite some great lyrics that make the song stand out amongst the band’s songs. Starting us off at number ten is the song “Malibu Beach Nightmare,” simply called many “Malibu Beach.” The song features in the Finnish rock and glam-punk band’s 1983 album, Back to Mystery City. Here we usher in our top 10 Hanoi Rocks songs. And as you can guess, the band has had quite a reshuffle of their line up with the total number of members ever to grace the stage under the name Hanoi Rocks hitting twenty. However, the band would later rejuvenate their love for rock music, having the band team up from 2001 to 2009. Sadly, the band would disband following the death of their recent new man in their lineup, drummer Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley, who died in a car accident in December 1984. In the first years of their inception, Hanoi Rocks would tour tons of Finnish clubs for live performances playing Monroe and McCoy’s songs and covers to other songs. The band was quite popular, having them be the first Finnish band to chart in the UK. Other founding members were guitarist Stefan Piesnack, drummer Peki Sirola, and bassist Nedo Soininen. The two would have a pact that Andy would join the band later on to have a smooth transition from his previous band to the new Hanoi Rocks band. Our Top 10 Hanoi Rocks Songs takes a look at a legendary rock band from Finland that played a big role in the 1980s Glam Metal Scene.Formed in 1978, Hanoi Rocks is a band that puts Finland on the map for rock music thanks to vocalist Michael Monroe aka Matti Fagerholm, and guitarist Andy McCoy aka Antti Hulkko, formerly in the punk band Pelle Miljoona Oy, for their efforts to see the Hanoi Rocks band established. Photo: Tuomas Vitikainen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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