This is how Taxi Driver announces itself to the world. I’ll be a taxi driver for you, honey, Take you anywhere you want to”Īn ominous pipe organ wails, a snare kicks, and Mike Monroe unleashes a guttural scream that you’d burst at least three blood vessels if you attempted to copy. In less than three years the band would go from being an underground sensation to the cusp of world domination, only for it all to be snatched away when Razzle was killed after Vince Neil’s car was involved in a collision with another vehicle.īut this is not a time for tears, they will come later, for now, let’s concentrate on what made Hanoi Rocks one of the best bands you’ve, probably, never heard of. This would help kick start their career and would lead to them moving to London in 1981, where they would hook up with Razzle and the final, and most definitive line-up of the band would be born. Life wasn’t easy for the group as they lived hand to mouth, begging on the streets along with other questionable activities being their main source of income for a while, but things would eventually take off for them after they performed a 102-day tour. Hanoi Rocks were formed in Finland in 1979 by Mike Monroe and Andy McCoy. They were a wall of noise with teased hair and eyeliner, a sonic statement that looked good in lipstick, they were beauty dragged through a hedge backward and brought the seedier side of life to the world in all its unapologetic glory.Īnd they are much more than a bit part in a Motley Crue film. Hanoi Rocks had more in common with The Stooges than Poison, drank deep from the well of punk instead of glam, and made music that you could drink, f*ck, or fight to better than any that had come before or any that have followed since. I’m also guessing that some of you took a look at the header that accompanies this column and decided that if all I was going to do was rant on about some old 80s hair-metal band, you’d cut out. The 1982 line-up of the band (Monroe, McCoy, Suicide, Yaffa and Casino) reunited at Monroe's 60 year birthday concert on 23 September 2022 at the Helsinki Ice Hall.After last week’s break from the norm, where I talked Birdeatsbaby with Mishkin Fitzgerald, we’re back to the usual format of me telling you what band you need in your life, and which are the five best songs to get you there. Although musically closer to traditional rock n' roll and punk, the band 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, mostly in Scandinavia and Japan. Original vocalist Michael Monroe and guitarist Andy McCoy reunited in 2001 with a new lineup that lasted until 2009. After their initial break-up, Michael Monroe was the first Finnish artist to chart on the American Billboard 200 in 1989. The band broke up in June 1985 after drummer Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley died in a drunk driving accident with Vince Neil behind the wheel 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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