Biography

Finland's major export to the world of heavy metal, Hanoi Rocks, drew much of their sound and inspiration from '70s glam rock and were thought by some to have fused the two styles more successfully than similar acts. Founded in 1980, their debut album, Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks, was released in 1981, and the band soon went to London to promote themselves and record Oriental Beat. They signed to CBS in 1983 and began to spread their name in Britain; their remake of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Up Around the Bend" became their only U.K. chart single the next year, from the album Two Steps from the Move. ~ Steve Huey

Top Tracks

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• 11th Street Kidzz

• Back To Mystery City

• Beer And A Cigarette

• Desperados

• Don't You Ever Leave Me

• I Want You

• Lick Summer Love

• Lost In The City

• M.c. Baby

• Malibu Beach Nightmare

• Mental Beat

• Motorvatin'

• Oriental Beat

• Shame, Shame, Shame

• Taxi Driver

• The Boulevard Of Broken Dreams

• Tragedy

• Up Around The Bend

• Village Girl

Discography

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• Street Poetry

  Demolition

  2007

• Another Hostile Takeover

  Dream Catcher Records

  2005

• Twelve Shots on the Rocks

  Major Leiden

  2003

• A Day Late, A Dollar Short

  Victor Records

  2003

• Hanoi Rocks

  Castle Music Ltd.

  1996

• All Those Wasted Years

  DGC / Hanoi Rocks

  1985

• Rock 'n' Roll Divorce

  Bootlick Records

  1985

• Two Steps from the Move

  Epic

  1984

• Oriental Beat

  DGC

  1982