Artist: Hanoi Rocks
Genre(s):
Rock
Rock: Hard-Rock
Metal: Heavy
Discography:
Street Poetry
Year: 2007
Tracks: 13
Another Hostile Takeover
Year: 2005
Tracks: 17
Up and Around The Bend (Definitive Collection) (CD 2)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 18
Up and Around The Bend (Definitive Collection) (CD 1)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 21
Twelve Shots On The Rocks
Year: 2002
Tracks: 14
Rock'n'roll Divorce
Year: 1985
Tracks: 14
All Those Wasted Years: Live At The Marquee
Year: 1985
Tracks: 18
Two Steps From the Move
Year: 1984
Tracks: 10
Self Destruction Blues
Year: 1983
Tracks: 12
Back To The Mystery City
Year: 1983
Tracks: 10
Back To Mystery City
Year: 1983
Tracks: 10
Oriental Beat
Year: 1982
Tracks: 11
Bangkok Shocks Saigon Shakes Hanoi Rocks
Year: 1981
Tracks: 10
Finland's major export to the world of leaden metal, Hanoi Rocks, john Drew much of their sound and inspiration from '70s glam-rock and were thought by some to have coalesced the iI styles more successfully than similar acts of the Apostles such as Motley Crue. Hanoi Rocks was founded in 1980 by vocaliser Michael Monroe (born Matti Fagerholm) and guitar player Andy McCoy (born Antti Hulkko); after some card changes, the breathe of the mathematical group consisted of guitar player Nasty Suicide (born Jan Stenfors), bassist Sam Yaffa (born Saki Takamäki), and drummer Gyp Casino (born Jesper Sporre). All members except Monroe had antecedently played with one or both of the Finnish punk bands Briard and Pelle Miljoona Oy. Their Scandinavian-only (at first) debut album, Capital of Thailand Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks, was released in 1981, and the banding soon went to London to promote themselves and disc Oriental Beat. After it was completed, Casino was discharged and replaced by ex-Demon Preacher and Dark drummer Nicholas "Razzle-dazzle" Dingley. The band sign-language to CBS in 1983 and began to spread their name in Britain; their remake of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Up Around the Bend" became their only U.K. chart single the following yr, from the album Two Steps From the Move. The band terminated the U.S., merely Razzle was killed in a tragic auto accident while a passenger in Motley Crue lead isaac Bashevis Singer Vince Neil's car. (Neil was convicted of vehicular manslaughter.) Razzle was replaced by ex-Clash drummer Terry Chimes, merely things were never quite the like for Monroe. He gave the band notice early in 1985, and the group stone-broke up in May afterwards a parting concert. Chimes, McCoy, and Suicide formed the fugacious Cherry Bombz, Yaffa joined Jetboy, and Monroe recorded a solo album, Not Fakin' It, that briefly made the U.S. charts in 1989. Monroe, Suicide, and Yaffa reunited in 1994 as Demolition 23. In 2002, Monroe and McCoy reformed Hanoi Rocks, cathartic Twelve Shots on the Rocks on the Major Leiden label and started touring formerly again.
