Michael Monroe & Andy McCoy old interview (Finnish TV)

Описание: Recorded in the 80's from Finnish Television. Mike Monroe & Andy McCoy interviewed. There's more after the music video.


MIKE: Yes?

INTERVIEWER: It has been rumored that you got offered a huge amount of money that Hanoi rocks would play together for just once. Is this true?

MIKE: That won't happen unless they'll find a way to wake Razzle from the dead. It's a shame that Hanoi broke up, but it was nobody's fault, it was just an accident.

ANDY: Even though Hanoi Rocks was pretty clichéd, it was still so perfect rock n' roll dream. Almost like a caricature. But it bringed alot of new. It was mix of Punk rock, 50's Rock n' roll, 60's female pop bands like The Shangri-Las, The Supremes etc. But it did bring a lot of new. Our records are still on the prints in the States and England and they're comparing bands to Hanoi rocks all the time and bla bla bla. But um.. we invented something new. Rock n' roll is clichéd. It's all been done before, you just have to find new forms of doing it.

MIKE: I'm glad that Hanoi comes out, because it has good background, and Hanoi was very special band. It wasn't just the make-up and the hair, it was the attitude and about what we stood for.

INTERVIEWER: What would Rock 'N' Roll be without Andy McCoy?

ANDY: Well, in this country it could be just a little more boring.. I hope. I don't believe that only one person or just one band could be so meaningfull alone. Not even The Beatles or The Rolling stones. It would make more sense to me, if you would ask: What would life be without Rock 'N' Roll? World would be missing thousand million ass-kicking 3-chord songs. Now that would be one poor world.

After the music video:

MIKE: In my opinion Hanoi was international band. We weren't just... We were whole world's citizens. Part of the band were Finnish and from Finland we were originally, but when we started we moved to Sweden. Finnish people didn't like Hanoi at all at first. They thought that we were just some faggots and junkies, until people in the other countries started diggin' us. Finnish people don't dare to like anything, unless it succeeds in foreign countries. Only after then they're like: "Oh! Now I get it!".
And it's just the same in Sweden too. They didn't even allow us in TV, because they were pussies! Ha ha! Then we moved to London and that's where we spent most of our time.