In late November, it returned to Finland and released the single “Desperados / Devil Woman.” Another single, “Dead By X-Mas / Nothing New,” was released in December. On September 19, 1981, the band made its debut at the Marquee Club in London. In September 1981, after extensive tours in Sweden and Finland, the band moved to London, where it recorded its second album. That same month, the band released its debut album, Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks, produced by Michael Monroe and Andy McCoy, calling themselves “The Muddy Twins.” The album was well-received, reaching number five on the Finnish album charts. The second single “Tragedy / Café Avenue,” written by McCoy when he was fifteen or sixteen years old, was released in February 1981. The tour developed the band’s energetic and wild playing style, which audiences were slow to find pleasing but later praised the band for. The band launched a 102-day tour in January 1981, which is believed to be the longest rock tour in Finnish history. Gyp Casino was the band’s drummer but did not play on the single as he was recording with another band in Stockholm. “Kill City Kills” was one of McCoy’s oldest songs, which he had written when he was hanging around at a Finnish block called Kill City. McCoy had translated the song, whose title means “I Want You” in Swedish, into English and claimed it as his own. In November 1980, the band struck a deal with Johanna Kustannus and released its debut single, “I Want You / Kill City Kills.” “I Want You” was a new version of the Swedish song “Vill ha dig” by Heartbreak. When the band moved to Stockholm, its members lived mostly in the streets, begging for money, except Andy McCoy, who lived with his wealthy girlfriend. By then Peki had left the band, and when it relocated to Stockholm, they hired an old friend of Monroe and McCoy’s, drummer Gyp Casino. McCoy replaced Stefan Piesnack, who had been arrested for drug possession, and Yaffa replaced Nedo. In late 1980 Andy McCoy left Pelle Miljoona Oy to join Hanoi Rocks, and was later joined by another former Pelle Miljoona Oy member, bassist Sami Yaffa. Vesterinen soon became the band’s manager after speaking with McCoy and Monroe. The band toured Finnish clubs, playing McCoy and Monroe’s own songs and covers like Cheap Trick’s “He’s a Whore,” The Police’s “Born in the 50’s” and MC5’s “Looking at You.” At one of the band’s first shows was Seppo Vesterinen, who had brought big name artists like Iggy Pop and Frank Zappa to Finland. The original lineup of Hanoi Rocks was Michael Monroe on vocals, former Pelle Miljoona Oy guitarist Stefan Piesnack, Monroe’s guitarist Nasty Suicide, bassist Nedo Soininen, and drummer Peki Sirola. McCoy allowed Monroe to form the band with an agreement that McCoy would join later. McCoy did not join the band immediately, because he was the guitarist for the Finnish punk band Pelle Miljoona Oy. Hanoi Rocks was formed in Helsinki in 1980 by Michael Monroe (Matti Fagerholm) and his friend, guitarist Andy McCoy (Antti Hulkko).
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Although musically closer to traditional rock n’ roll and punk, Hanoi Rocks have been cited as a major influence in the glam metal genre for bands such as Guns N’ Roses, Skid Row and Poison.Īccording to Finnish radio and TV personality Jone Nikula, who was the band’s tour manager in the 2000s, Hanoi Rocks’s albums have sold between 780,000 and 1,000,000 copies around the world, but mostly in Scandinavia and Japan. Original vocalist Michael Monroe and guitarist Andy McCoy reunited in 2001 with a new line-up of Hanoi Rocks until 2009. The band broke up in June 1985 after the drummer Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley had died in a car accident during their first US tour in December 1984. They were the first Finnish band to chart in the UK and they were also popular in Japan. Hanoi Rocks was a Finnish rock band formed in 1979.
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