![]() Now Monroe has revealed the big news: as the grand finale of the concert, the original lineup of HANOI ROCKS, one of Finland’s most significant rock bands of all time, will take the stage: Monroe, Andy McCoy, Sami Yaffa, Nasty Suicide and Gyp Casino. You can read the rest of the interview with Monroe at Louder Sound.Blabbermouth - Michael Monroe, who turned 60 in June, will celebrate the milestone with a bang at the Helsinki Ice Hall on September 23. I was still exercising so the weight came on evenly. I started eating normally, little blueberry pies, my favourite foods. Then we had three weeks off in August eighty-four and I went to the Finnish countryside where I spent my summers as a kid with my mother’s home-cooked food. And without acknowledging it, I was on a liquid diet. At least I was muscular, because I was exercising all the time – over-exercising. Even though Andy doesn’t have much muscle tone because he never exercises, except for this, he gets enough exercise pushing his luck. It was my way of saying “screw you” to everyone. I was skinnier than Andy. I started looking like an old man even though I was only twenty. I was so skinny I could touch my fingers around my waist. I’d run to the local pool, swim for an hour or two without stopping, run home, eat a little muesli and have a salad for dinner. I went through a drug thing, but got to a point where I said, “I’ve got to stop everything or I’m going to lose my mind.” I started exercising and swimming. Mid-80s Hanoi Rocks: (l-r) Razzle, Sami Yaffa, Michael Monroe (front), Andy McCoy, Nasty Suicide. When me and Stiv Bators hit it off, I started wearing all the colours under the sun and life started becoming fun again. In eighty-three I was mainly wearing black and white and was very lonely for a very long period of time, but in eighty-four I started lighting up again. But there was a time when I was very lonely. I enjoyed wallowing in my misery sometimes. I’d be almost depressed, quite melancholy. ![]() I was never interested in casual relationships. I’ve never been with a groupie in my life. Monroe was asked how was life as ‘the most beautiful man in rock’ and whether he was in a relationship, or did his reputation leave him the most unapproachable man in rock? Monroe replied: “ I was unapproachable on purpose. ![]() We played our set, he thought it was great, started booking us shows in Finland, and that’s how we started making money. We’d sometimes go to a bar and I’d chat up some girl, and when she’d invite me to her house, I’d say: “Do you mind if my friends come along?” Then when we got to the house we’d head straight for the fridge. After six months of rehearsing, Zeppo, who’d expressed an interest in managing us before we left Finland, came to Stockholm to check us out at the rehearsal place. We’d beg enough to get a hamburger to share, or a bottle of wine to forget about the hunger. So me, Sami Yaffa and Nasty Suicide were living on the streets for the first six months, begging for change. I had a few hundred Finnish marks, not much, when I left home and ended up in Stockholm. ![]() Monroe spoke about how he supported himself between school and his musical career taking off as he stated: “When we started Hanoi Rocks we were homeless. Hanoi Rocks singer Michael Monroe was interviewed by Ian Fortnam for Louder Sound more than six months ago and spoke about various moments in his life and musical career including his childhood, time in Hanoi Rocks and his foray as a solo artist. Michael Monroe recalls being homeless for six months when Hanoi Rocks started and being anorexic ![]()
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