Альбомы исполнителя
Briard Revisited
1996 · альбом
Too Much Ain't Enough
1988 · альбом
Three Words
2023 · сингл
Jukebox Junkie
2022 · альбом
Take Me I'm Yours
2022 · сингл
Seven Seas
2019 · сингл
21st Century Rocks
2019 · альбом
Soul Satisfaction
2018 · Мини-альбом
The Way I Feel
2017 · сингл
Xmas Song
2016 · сингл
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Биография
A versatile Finnish musician, songwriter, and visual artist best known as the lead guitarist for influential glam metallers Hanoi Rocks, Andy McCoy has been a working musician since the late 1970s. Although frontman Michael Monroe was the focal point of the group's live shows, McCoy was their musical heart and soul, as he penned or co-penned just about every original song that appeared on a Hanoi Rocks album from 1981 to 1984 (their "classic" period). After the band ceased operations in 1985, McCoy kept busy with projects like Suicide Twins, Cherry Bombz, Shooting Gallery, and Grease Helmet. His solo releases include Too Much Ain't Enough (1988), Building on Tradition (1995), and Jukebox Junkie (2022). Born Antti Hulkko on October 11, 1962, in Pelkosenniemi, Finland, both McCoy's guitar playing and fashion style can be linked to two specific all-time rock & roll greats, Keith Richards and Johnny Thunders. Beginning in the late '70s, McCoy appeared on several singles by the group Briard, before signing on with the Finnish band Pelle Miljoona Oy. Around this time, he hooked up with Monroe, and shortly thereafter, Hanoi Rocks was born. An influential yet oft-overlooked band, the party-hearty Hanoi Rocks adopted the New York Dolls' make-up and hairspray look and played anthemic three-chord rock (influenced by punk). This approach would later be adopted by such groups as Mötley Crüe on their first few albums, and then streamlined and copied by hordes of subsequent hair metal bands throughout the '80s. During their early-'80s peak, McCoy and Hanoi Rocks released a total of four studio albums, including 1981's Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks, 1982's Oriental Beat, 1983's Back to the Mystery City, and 1984's Two Steps from the Move (the latter produced by Bob Ezrin). However, what appeared to be a bright future for the band was abruptly extinguished when Hanoi Rocks drummer Razzle was killed in an auto accident on December 8, 1984, when he was a passenger in a car driven by Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil, who was driving while under the influence. McCoy and Monroe would attempt to continue Hanoi Rocks, but eventually split up the band in 1985. Afterwards, McCoy would go from project to project, including reuniting with Hanoi Rocks bandmate Nasty Suicide in the Suicide Twins, forming the heavy metal group Shooting Gallery, releasing solo albums, and even briefly serving as a touring guitarist for Iggy Pop. By 2001, McCoy and Monroe had reconnected and decided to launch a new version of Hanoi Rocks, which resulted in several more albums before they broke up in 2009. That same year saw McCoy pen an autobiography, Sheriff McCoy: Outlaw Legend of Hanoi Rocks. He remained busy throughout the 2010s, touring and recording with Grease Helmet, Pelle Miljoona, and Bam Margera, and issuing the solo albums Soul Satisfaction (2018) and 21st Century Rocks (2019). In 2022, he released Jukebox Junkie, a set of eclectic covers of songs by the likes of Toots & The Maytals, David Bowie, Squeeze, and Wanda Jackson. ~ Greg Prato & James Christopher Monger, Rovi