The new version is the best on the block and includes a bonus CD. Rock Candy Records has now remastered and re-released this lost classic. The shame is that this really is a solid album, leaving one to wonder what might have been if the sands of time had drifted just a bit differently. The album was released and songs including “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” and “Don’t You Ever Leave Me” were received well, but without a band to tour them, the album came and went without much fanfare. On the trek to find more booze, he was in a horrific car accident killing his passenger and ending the bright future of this unknown band. During the break, Motley Crue vocalist Vince Neil decided to take the bands British drummer known as Razzle with him on an alcohol run. This was a band on the rise… then… the shit hit the fan.ĭuring a jaunt across America, Monroe broke his ankle resulting in many live dates being postponed. His influence on the band is evident, as a lot of Classic Alice Cooper-ish stylings were woven into Hanoi’s songs. Ezrin took their raw talents and sculpted the band into a pop rock hit making machine. The band was signed to CBS Records and was produced by Bob Ezrin, most famous for his work with Pink Floyd, Kiss and Alice Cooper. On top of all of that, they made pretty darn solid rock and roll tunes. They wrote catchy songs, were not afraid to pull out a remake from one of their heroes, had a snotty attitude, an outlandish look and an androgynous charm that made the girls hot and the boys secretly uncomfortable. Hanoi Rocks was part Ziggy era David Bowie, part Motley Crue and part classic ‘60s style Rolling Stones. Hanoi Rocks, with their colorful – and we mean colorful – front man Michael Monroe, were poised to take the hard rock world by storm in the early 1980s. “”Don’t You Ever Leave Me”” Andy McCoy 4:05ģ.RATINGS: A = must own B = buy it C= average D = yawn F = puke Swedish sleaze rock act Hardcore Superstar covered the song “”Don’t You Ever Leave Me”” on their second album.ġ. It was re-recorded on the band 1983 album Back to Mystery City. The song was originally made just as a joke, which had Nasty Suicide on bass, because Sam Yaffa was late from the recording. “”Malibu Nightmare”” (which is on the 12″” single) was originally featured on the EP for the song “”Love An Injection”” in 1982. The song “”Oil And Gasoline”” (which was the song B-side) was a new song that originally made its appearance on the “”Underwater World”” single the same year in 1984. The version of “”Don’t You Ever Leave Me”” that on the 12″” single differs from the album and 7″” single versions, as the 12″” single version features the narration (originally spoken by McCoy and Razzle) spoken by McCoy in Spanish. As a song, I think it fucking great and this version is what the original should have been”. The band guitarist Andy McCoy commented on the song in Finnish Soundi magazine in 1984: “”Well, yeah, we screwed up that song so bad back then, that we had to remake it now. It is usually considered one of the best songs by Hanoi Rocks. They remade the version, which the band loved much more. “”Don’t You Ever Leave Me”” made its first appearance on Hanoi Rocks’ first album Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks, but it had more punky atmosphere and faster tempo. “”Don’t You Ever Leave Me”” is a single by the Finnish rock and glam punk band Hanoi Rocks taken from their 1984 hit album Two Steps From The Move. The band broke up in 1985 after their drummer Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley died in a car accident a year earlier.ī-side tracks are : Oil And Gasoline, Malibu Beach ( Calypso version!!!!) Hanoi Rocks was a Finnish glam rock band formed in 1979, whose most successful period came in the early 1980s.
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