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Later that year, the band released Self Destruction Blues, which had Razzle on the cover, but he didn't play on the album because it was actually a compilation of old singles. The band has said that Razzle revitalised them.
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This line-up, consisting of Michael Monroe, Andy McCoy, Nasty Suicide, Sami Yaffa and Razzle, has often been cited as the classic and definitive line-up. In 1982 Hanoi Rocks moved to London and released their second studio album Oriental Beat, which the band later dismissed as a failure, stating that the album was mixed badly by the producer Pete Woolcroft.Īfter the album's release, the band fired drummer Gyp Casino and hired Nicholas Dingley, better known as Razzle. The album was produced by Andy McCoy and Michael Monroe, who were known as "The Muddy Twins". The band released their first album in 1981 titled Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks, with most of the songs written by McCoy. The band later recruited drummer Gyp Casino. McCoy also brought bassist Sami Yaffa with him. Andy McCoy left Pelle Miljoona Oy and joined Hanoi Rocks in 1980. From the very first Hanoi line-up only one member (besides Monroe) remained, rhythm guitarist Nasty Suicide, who would stay in the band until 1985. Hanoi Rocks was a band that Monroe and his friend, guitarist Andy McCoy, had thought of, but because McCoy was in the Finnish punk band Pelle Miljoona Oy, he told Monroe to start the band without him. Michael Monroe of Hanoi Rocks, playing the saxophone on stage at the Scarborough Rock in the Castle festival Hanoi Rocks (1979–1985) Monroe auditioned as a bassist for Pelle Miljoona Oy but, even though the audition went well, they chose bassist Sami Yaffa. Monroe then went on to play saxophone in Maukka Perusjätkä's band, where he also met guitarist Nasty Suicide.
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Later, Monroe and McCoy played together for a short time in a band called Bolin. During this time, while rehearsing in a basement of a church in Töölö, Monroe met guitarist Andy McCoy (then known as Antti Hulkko) McCoy's band, Briard, was also rehearsing there at the time. From 1976 to 1979, Monroe played in a band called Madness. Some other favourite bands of Monroe's at the time included: Alice Cooper, The New York Dolls, Led Zeppelin, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Little Richard. Monroe states in the Hanoi Rocks autobiography All Those Wasted Years that one of the first times he was exposed to rock n' roll was when he saw Black Sabbath's 1970 Paris performance on television. His father, Pentti Fagerholm (1935–2015), was a very well known Finnish radio personality and reporter. Michael Monroe was born Matti "Makke" Fagerholm on 17 June 1962.